How to Use cytoplasm in a Sentence

cytoplasm

noun
  • This may mean that too much cytoplasm — the fluid inside cells — ended up in the polar body.
    — Marissa Fessenden, Smithsonian, 10 Feb. 2018
  • This little bud of DNA is then fused to the healthy cytoplasm of the donor cell.
    — Stephen S. Hall, Wired, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Once the virus binds to and invades a host cell, a viral inner core is released into the cytoplasm.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 June 2022
  • Small voids formed in the cytoplasm, then coalesced into empty border zones.
    — Quanta Magazine, 2 Jan. 2020
  • In young oocytes, they are situated throughout the cytoplasm.
    — Quanta Magazine, 13 May 2024
  • But the production of proteins happens elsewhere, in the cytoplasm.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The mRNA in the vaccines gets taken into an area of your cells called the cytoplasm.
    — Fortune, 2 Oct. 2021
  • So, the genetic information needs to get from the nucleus to the cytoplasm.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The result is a biochemical system in which the crowdedness of the cytoplasm reflects a cell’s growth and health, Holt said.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2026
  • This suggested that cells have evolved multiple mechanisms to manage crowding in the cytoplasm.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The worm cytoplasm, measurements showed, was around 50 times more crowded with ribosomes than that of Holt’s cultured cells.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Only later are the cytoplasm and its contents partitioned into different cells.
    — Quanta Magazine, 9 Sep. 2020
  • While S100s are generally found in neural cells, they are also found in the gut and in the cytoplasm of white blood cells called neutrophils.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2022
  • And yet, surprisingly, the nucleus was almost exactly 80% as dense as the cytoplasm across all species.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Under a microscope, biomolecular condensates look like tiny objects adrift in a sea of cytoplasm packed with organelles and other structures.
    — Trevor Grandpre, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2024
  • Researchers can get them into the cytoplasm by genetically altering cells to produce them, but that's not feasible for most treatments.
    — Mitch Leslie, Science | AAAS, 10 May 2018
  • This looks, a cell at a time, at the messenger molecules which carry instructions from a cell’s nucleus to the protein-making machinery in its cytoplasm.
    — The Economist, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Karyopherins are proteins that help with the transport of molecules between the cytoplasm and nucleus by shuttling their cargo through the nuclear pore complex.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Studies indicate that inside the cells of a developing bird feather, the beta-keratin starts out distributed in the watery cytoplasm.
    — Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2021
  • Specific species of nematode can pierce the fungal hyphae to suck out the cytoplasm, so having toxocysts that emit poison gas on the hyphae could protect the fungus from such predators.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2023
  • In nonmuscle cells myosin is found in the cytoplasm, often associated with actin networks beneath the cell membrane or within the cell interior.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Horizontal transfers are common and easy in bacteria, whose DNA is just within their cytoplasm.
    — Quanta Magazine, 9 June 2021
  • No nutrients means no energy, and yeast cells need energy to pump protons out of their cytoplasm to maintain the neutral pH essential for their biochemistry.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2018
  • This caused openings to form in the nuclear membrane but not in the exterior cellular structure as witnessed by the appearance of the dye from the nuclei showing up in the cell's cytoplasm.
    — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2024
  • Syncytia are large, cell-like structures that form when two or more cells join together; essentially, an amorphous mass of cytoplasm and nuclei (Figure 1).
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • The cytoplasm is highly compartmentalized, and there’s a great big separation between the cytoplasm and the nucleus.
    — Marina Starleaf Riker, ExpressNews.com, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Up to 60 percent of insect species carry a harmless type of bacteria called Wolbachia in their cytoplasm, the thick mixture of water, salts, and protein that fills every cell.
    — Andrew Howley, National Geographic, 21 Oct. 2016
  • For that to happen, the mRNA must journey out of the nucleus and into the cytoplasm where the protein-making factories reside.
    — Alla Katsnelson and Casey Rentz, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2019
  • For Glass, an obvious red line is for scientists to refrain from making a mirror ribosome, a biological machine found in a cell’s cytoplasm that makes proteins.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That’s a very large structure, composed of about 1,000 protein, that serves as a kind of transportation tunnel between a cell’s nucleus and the surrounding cytoplasm.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 July 2022

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