How to Use stem cell in a Sentence
stem cell
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Then, a stem cell transplant built her a new immune system.
— Maria Streshinsky, Wired, 12 June 2020 -
In the last 15 years, more than $20 billion has been invested in the stem cell industry.
— Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 30 Nov. 2019 -
The other type of stem cell divided to create two types of daughter cells.
— Craig Ceol, The Conversation, 10 July 2023 -
Yu was diagnosed with leukemia in March, and doctors said his best chance to beat it would be a stem cell transplant.
— Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024 -
After a patient’s stem cells have been treated, the patient has to stay in the hospital for a month.
— Gina Kolata Kenny Holston, New York Times, 6 May 2024 -
The report highlighted the case of a 65-year-old man who underwent a stem cell transplant.
— Aria Bendix, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2022 -
The grants show that the field of stem cell therapies and research is rapidly expanding.
— Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022 -
Most people who donate stem cells snap back almost immediately, and this felt like a very minimal price to pay.
— Pia Velasco, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
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