How to Use somatic cell in a Sentence

somatic cell

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Scientists who work in genetics draw a huge distinction between editing somatic cells and editing germline cells.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 4 Dec. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• It’s typically accomplished via somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).
  — Molly Glick, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024