How to Use cell line in a Sentence

cell line

noun

• The toxin binds to and kills cells lining the blood vessels of the gut and kidney.
  — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Up to 50 people can be contained in the cells lining the walls of the waiting area.
  — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Apr. 2018
• The Roanoke native who died in 1951 was the source of the first immortal human cell line.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 23 July 2021
• Next the scientists can freeze the best cell lines for future use.
  — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 30 June 2023
• Instead the researchers used a quail muscle cell line to knock out FBP2.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2023
• That allowed researchers to perform tests on them and for the cell line to be shared widely.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2021
• Problems don't end with the establishment of the cell line.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2017
• In the case of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, a fetal cell line was used to produce it.
  — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2021
• Other genes are important to the function of cells lining the uterus.
  — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2017
• Lacks’ cells are one of the most vital cell lines in medical research.
  — Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2020
• Those cells became the first human cell line to reproduce outside the body.
  — Hollie Silverman, CNN, 16 May 2018
• The flavors can harm the cells lining the interior of blood vessels.
  — Elizabeth Lawrence, USA TODAY, 4 July 2019
• Cells from her malignancy were cultured and used to start a cell line, called HeLa, which lives on to this day in research labs around the world.
  — Grace Halden, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2015
• One day, hospitals may have enough cell lines to match patients with stem cells based on tissue types.
  — Tobias Deuse, The Conversation, 19 Aug. 2019
• AstraZeneca used a cell line known as HEK293 to develop its vaccine.
  — David Crary, ajc, 10 Jan. 2021
• Since 2016, the JCVI team has added back some nonessential genes to help the minimal cell lines grow and divide more like natural cells.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 9 Aug. 2023
• Over half of the tumor cell lines ended up with a large genetic change after spending time in one mouse.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2017
• With the sample, a doctor at the hospital was able to create the first human cell line to reproduce outside the body.
  — Taylor Romine, CNN, 5 Oct. 2021
• The cervical cancer cells from Ms. Lacks are the oldest human cell line and have been growing since they were taken from her in 1951.
  — James Gorman, New York Times, 5 July 2018
• Breathing in the virus through the nose or mouth means bringing the viral protein into contact with the cells lining the airways and leading into the lungs.
  — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2020
• Knocking down the enzyme in tumor cell lines made any cell sensitive to mannose.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2018
• So my [then] postdoctoral scholar Bertrand Coste found a cell line that responds to pressure this way.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2021
• The adenovirus is grown using what’s called an immortalized cell line, and the virus then is pulled out and purified.
  — Kevin McGill, ajc, 2 Mar. 2021
• The adenovirus is grown using what's called an immortalized cell line, and the virus then is pulled out and purified.
  — CBS News, 4 Mar. 2021
• They were eventually used to create a cell line named after her, HeLa (pronounced hee-la).
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
• The virus attacks the cells lining the alveoli; our overactive immune systems, in trying to fight the virus, may be damaging them as well.
  — Clifford Marks, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2020
• All those cells lining your mucous membranes have been damaged and are like weeping sores, Dr. Schaffner said.
  — Kate Murphy, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
• Miga said that studies of the cell line had shown it to be similar to human cells, and that the researchers used cells that had been kept frozen, not propagated for many years.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 2 June 2021
• Some cell lines are extremely well adapted to living in plastic plates (notably HeLa cells).
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2017
• Much of our understanding of how the human genome is working was not done in human samples but in organisms like yeast, cancer cell lines, etc.
  — Anika Nayak, STAT, 13 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024