How to Use cell division in a Sentence
cell division
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Over many cell divisions, these repeats can build up, with dozens of the same three base code in a row.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 1 Nov. 2019
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The process of cell division requires a cell to make a copy of itself by using a protein template called DNA.
—Dr. Jared Heiner, idahostatesman, 19 Feb. 2018
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During this stage, more cell division takes place, and your blastocyst takes a ball-like shape.
—wendy Wisner, Parents, 18 Nov. 2023
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McCoy and his colleagues used time-lapse video and a microscope to record the IVF embryos' first cell divisions.
—Gina Jiménez, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
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Stem cells have the potential to become many kinds of cells and can renew themselves through cell division.
—Kevin Flower, CNN, 4 June 2019
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OPCs are by far the most abundant cells undergoing cell division in our brain.
—R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2019
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Furthermore, all cells arise from previous cells by cell division, passing on their DNA source code in their genes in the process.
—Christof Koch, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2021
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Imagine a wad of snowflake yeast, growing larger and larger with each cell division.
—Quanta Magazine, 22 Sep. 2021
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Cancer is the term given to hundreds of diseases that share uncontrolled cell division and the potential to spread to other parts of the body.
—Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 6 Apr. 2022
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Two of the genes were already known to play a role in cell division, but the involvement of the other five came as a surprise—and their roles in cleaving the microbes remain unknown.
—Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 29 Mar. 2021
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So, the cell division process includes lots of checkpoints where the cell makes sure everything has worked properly.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2024
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In males, the protein encoded by Apollo is needed for the cell division that is the final step in sperm production.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 23 Feb. 2018
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Chromosomes, the bundles of DNA that star in the mitotic ballet of cell division, play a leading role in complex life.
—Quanta Magazine, 2 Feb. 2022
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This rate of growth is so amazing, in fact, that researchers are studying antler growth and the rapid cell division that accompanies that process in hopes of curing cancer.
—Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 10 Jan. 2024
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The content marketplace is already undergoing a form of rapid-fire cell division around the world.
—Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 28 Nov. 2021
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The egg and sperm are monitored to confirm that fertilization and cell division are taking place.
—Jennifer Gerson, Marie Claire, 1 Oct. 2018
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That fracture separates the long arm of the chromosome from its spindle—the fibers that pull chromosomes apart during cell division.
—Megan Molteni, Wired, 29 Oct. 2020
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Centromeres are structures in the middle of chromosomes that are filled with repeating sequences of code and integral to the cell division process.
—NBC News, 31 Mar. 2022
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When the telomeres were repositioned to the nuclear periphery, cell division ground almost to a halt.
—Quanta Magazine, 6 Nov. 2018
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The object of his desire: cohesin, a protein involved in cell division that is defective in many cancers.
—Eric Hand, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020
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The sections might also alter what is known about the basics of human biology, such as cell division.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 Dec. 2021
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Larger cells lack flagella and instead use the centrioles full time for cell division.
—Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 28 June 2018
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The lab is also trying to figure out how to get eggs to enter a special form of cell division called meiosis that prepares them for being fertilized.
—Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
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Daptomycin could no longer attach and halt the bacteria’s cell division.
—Wired, 9 Dec. 2019
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The treatment worked because mustard gas damages cells’ DNA, stopping cell division.
—The Economist, 14 Sep. 2017
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Sulston shared the prize for medicine in 2002 for his contribution to work unraveling how genes control cell division.
—kansascity, 10 Mar. 2018
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Then in the regenerative stage, slow rates of cell division translate into slow skin regrowth.
—Matthew Steinhauser, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2020
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Several rounds of regrowth and purification followed, each of which took about three months for growth to get going (the team estimates that the microbes need two to three weeks to do a single cell division).
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2019
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Over successive cell divisions, our DNA gets shorter and shorter.
—Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 27 Apr. 2018
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Unlike all other cell types, neurons do not increase tissue volume by cell division but rather by expanding the volume of the cells themselves.
—Jeffrey M. Rodgers, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2022
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