How to Use stem cell in a Sentence

stem cell

noun
  • At some point in the US, there weren’t any stem cell clinics.
    Julia Belluz, Vox, 6 Dec. 2018
  • Most cells making up the blastema are not stem cells from the bulb that migrate to the tip.
    Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2024
  • This matrix is kind of like a house that stem cells make.
    Diego Mendoza-Moyers, ExpressNews.com, 7 Oct. 2019
  • So the mother’s stem cells can produce healthy blood cells for the child.
    New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • But tests have found some of her mother’s stem cells in her blood.
    New York Times, 25 May 2018
  • The gene therapies are built on the back of a stem cell transplant.
    Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
  • She is not involved in the stem cell trial and does not know Matthay.
    J.d. Morris, SFChronicle.com, 8 June 2020
  • There wasn’t any room for the maternal stem cells to go.
    Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The elephant stem cells also hold the key to the mammoth’s rebirth.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The problem related to stem cell clinics is just the tip of the iceberg.
    Paul Knoepfler, STAT, 25 Mar. 2022
  • He was paralyzed from the shoulders down and in need of stem cell surgery.
    Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Pluripotent stem cells have the potential to become any type of cell in the body.
    Aitor Aguirre, The Conversation, 10 May 2024
  • The fatty tissue in the middle and ends of your largest bones gives rise to the body’s best pinch hitters: stem cells.
    Popular Science, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The stem cells were then sent to bluebird bio for gene therapy.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 24 Sep. 2024
  • An initial stem cell transplant couldn’t hold off the cancer for more than half a year.
    Angus Chen, STAT, 2 June 2022
  • Seven people around the world have now been cured of HIV through stem cell transplants.
    Maya Goldman, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The trick is controlling what kind and how many of the right kind of offspring can be coached from a stem cell parent.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2025
  • And a stem cell graft risks its own immune problems, if the new cells begin to fight their host in the days, months, or even years down the road.
    Max G. Levy, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Now his stem cells had matched with an unknown patient.
    Ben Paynter, Men's Health, 26 June 2023
  • These models are made from stem cells, not egg and sperm, and can’t grow into babies.
    Laura Ungar, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
  • The stem cell transplant procedure, which takes two months, is brutal — and the film isn’t an easy watch.
    Kate Aurthur, Variety, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The mini-brains are made from human stem cells derived from adults.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 July 2019
  • What is about to emerge with stem cell research is amazing on the anti-aging front.
    Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • As is the case with Hodgkin lymphoma, high-dose chemo plus stem cell transplants may also be used.
    Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 1 July 2024
  • This method led to the discovery of the nerve growth factor in the 1950s, and scientists still use it today to study stem cells.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2020
  • How fringe stem cell treatments won far-right allies Help!
    Steven Levy, Wired, 20 July 2021
  • Other groups are trying to grow human organs from stem cells in the lab.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The Düsseldorf patient received the stem cell transplant to treat his leukemia.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The researchers also confirmed that abundant lipid droplets form in human cartilage cells grown in the lab from embryonic stem cells.
    New Atlas, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The reprogrammed cells were injected into a mouse embryo, resulting in a chimeric mouse with physical traits derived from both the donor embryo and the reprogrammed stem cells.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024

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