How to Use tissue culture in a Sentence
tissue culture
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Here, Hogan grows plants from seeds, cuttings and tissue culture, then ships them to all corners of the earth.
— Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 4 Jan. 2018 -
All tests, so far, have been in tissue culture, not in animals.
— Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2011 -
That kind of expertise lay in a burgeoning field called tissue culture.
— Ainissa Ramirez, Scientific American, 17 June 2021 -
Today, Cleber Trujillo, a project scientist, oversees the growth of thousands of organoids in a tissue culture room in Dr. Muotri’s lab.
— New York Times, 29 Aug. 2019 -
To do this, staff at the center conducted a tissue culture series, which entailed taking small cuttings of stems or tips of leaves from each of the seven varieties of trees and treating the infection.
— Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 27 May 2022 -
So, their embryos must be removed and placed in a tissue culture—a petri dish containing salts, sugars, and hormones—that will trick around five per cent of the embryos into developing.
— Helen Sullivan, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2021 -
Lab studies found that mutations of the Ebola virus, which spread in West Africa starting in 2013, increased infectivity in tissue culture.
— James Glanz, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2020 -
Core resources such as tissue culture rooms and animal facilities filled up fast.
— David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 11 Aug. 2021 -
That's why, in August 2016, Front Range Biosciences began developing a method of tissue culturing that avoided all these problems.
— Matt Simon, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018 -
Because ‘Cavendish’ produces no seeds, it can only be propagated by division or tissue culture.
— Steve Bender, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2019 -
The indoor facility, after construction, will consist of 200 total lights for flowering plants as well as a nursery, R&D lab rooms for testing trials, and a small tissue culture lab for in-house genetics.
— Jackie Bryant, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2021 -
There has been some success with breeding somoclones, a type of genetic variation caused by tissue culture cultivation.
— Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2017 -
Professional growers use heat treatments and tissue culture to control viral disease.
— The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2015 -
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a new 3-D tissue culturing system to study endometriosis with the goal of one day improving treatment.
— Abby Haglage, SELF, 25 Oct. 2017 -
Propagation is the creation of new plants from existing plants, and techniques include seeds, cuttings, division or separation, layering, grafting and tissue culture.
— Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 20 Jan. 2021 -
His vision for the botanical garden is to create plant research facilities, which would include a herbarium, tissue culture facilities, a nursery and greenhouses complemented by a library and computer/internet accessibility.
— Julie Gallant, Ramona Sentinel, 11 July 2018
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