How to Use somatic cell in a Sentence
somatic cell
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Professor Wilmut just months before in 1996 had cloned a sheep from an adult somatic cell, shocking the world.
—Bill Frist, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
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The result gives Beecher’s milk a somatic cell count that’s a quarter to a half of the European standard, which is already half of the standard allowed in the United States.
—Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 3 Dec. 2018
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The second method is to take the egg of a surrogate animal, remove the nucleus, and join it with a Sumatran rhino's somatic cell.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 14 Aug. 2020
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To create Maya, the company used a process called somatic cell nuclear transfer – the same technique that was used to create the first-ever mammal clone, Dolly the sheep, in 1996.
—Jessie Yeung, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
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Dolly was the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult somatic cell, which is any type of bodily cell that is not a reproductive germ cell.
—Bill Frist, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
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If an owner decides to proceed, the pet's DNA is used to create embryos using somatic cell nuclear transfer, the same science that produced Dolly the sheep.
—Roxanne Roberts, Anchorage Daily News, 11 July 2019
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If an owner decides to proceed, the pet’s DNA is used to create embryos using somatic cell nuclear transfer, the same science that produced Dolly the sheep.
—Roxanne Roberts, Washington Post, 10 July 2019
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One cloning method is the somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT): the nucleus from a healthy egg cell is removed and replaced with a nucleus from another cell.
—Lauren Sigfusson, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2018
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Scientists who work in genetics draw a huge distinction between editing somatic cells and editing germline cells.
—Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 4 Dec. 2018
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Scientists sampled tissue from cows across China and used what's called the somatic cell nuclear transfer method to create embryos which were then placed inside surrogate cows.
—Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2023
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To create Maya, the company used somatic cell nuclear transfer, the same laboratory technique employed to create Dolly the sheep, the world's first-ever mammal clone, over two decades ago.
—Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 28 Sep. 2022
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So this time the Chinese team deployed two critical enzymes that removed genes’ epigenetic memory of being somatic cells (cells that make up tissues and organs).
—Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2018
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Their traditional methods deliver higher total solids in milk and low somatic cell count, which delivers higher quality milk.
—David Riemer, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
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Researchers have managed to clone nonhuman primates in the past couple of decades using other techniques, including a similar nuclear transfer method that relies on embryonic stem cells instead of somatic cells.
—Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2018
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That finding suggested the plants were somehow eliminating harmful mutations in their somatic cells and accumulating beneficial ones for their reproductive cells.
—Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 29 Aug. 2019
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It’s typically accomplished via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).
—Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2021
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