How to Use cell line in a Sentence

cell line

noun
  • Next the scientists can freeze the best cell lines for future use.
    — Joanna Thompson, Scientific American, 30 June 2023
  • But the ultra-safe cell line requires edits on a much grander scale.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The study, Sinha said, spans three models — an organoid, mice and cell lines.
    — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The toxin binds to and kills cells lining the blood vessels of the gut and kidney.
    — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Lacks’ cells are one of the most vital cell lines in medical research.
    — Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2020
  • That allowed researchers to perform tests on them and for the cell line to be shared widely.
    — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2021
  • One day, hospitals may have enough cell lines to match patients with stem cells based on tissue types.
    — Tobias Deuse, The Conversation, 19 Aug. 2019
  • Those cells became the first human cell line to reproduce outside the body.
    — Hollie Silverman, CNN, 16 May 2018
  • Other genes are important to the function of cells lining the uterus.
    — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Sometimes entire cell lines fail to perform and have to be discarded.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2025
  • Up to 50 people can be contained in the cells lining the walls of the waiting area.
    — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Over half of the tumor cell lines ended up with a large genetic change after spending time in one mouse.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2017
  • Knocking down the enzyme in tumor cell lines made any cell sensitive to mannose.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2018
  • The flavors can harm the cells lining the interior of blood vessels.
    — Elizabeth Lawrence, USA TODAY, 4 July 2019
  • Instead the researchers used a quail muscle cell line to knock out FBP2.
    — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 24 Feb. 2023
  • With these cell lines, the team could quickly screen for the molecules capable of killing the resistant cells.
    — Isabella Backman, Hartford Courant, 27 Jan. 2026
  • In the case of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, a fetal cell line was used to produce it.
    — Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2021
  • The project will preserve living cell lines and genetic data for endangered species.
    — Sasha Richie, Dallas Morning News, 2 Feb. 2026
  • The Roanoke native who died in 1951 was the source of the first immortal human cell line.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 23 July 2021
  • Such cell lines would be gene-edited to be matched to patients, to obviate a strong need for immunosuppressants.
    — Juergen Eckhardt, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The cell line in this image originally came from a mouse brain tumor, but here these cells serve as a general model for any brain cell.
    — Eva Amsen, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • The company creates medicines and therapies from proteins sourced from human plasma and cell lines.
    — John Marks, Charlotte Observer, 29 June 2026
  • With the sample, a doctor at the hospital was able to create the first human cell line to reproduce outside the body.
    — Taylor Romine, CNN, 5 Oct. 2021
  • So my [then] postdoctoral scholar Bertrand Coste found a cell line that responds to pressure this way.
    — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2021
  • They were eventually used to create a cell line named after her, HeLa (pronounced hee-la).
    — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Some cell lines are extremely well adapted to living in plastic plates (notably HeLa cells).
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2017
  • There are also multi-cell cluster and multi-cell line storms, both made up of a group of cells but differing in shape as indicated by the name.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 16 July 2022
  • Cells from her malignancy were cultured and used to start a cell line, called HeLa, which lives on to this day in research labs around the world.
    — Grace Halden, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2015
  • There’s a big difference between killing cancer cell lines grown in the laboratory and cancer in the human body.
    — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Going forward, the researchers plan to run more detailed cell line and animal studies on some of the more promising drug candidates.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2021

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