How to Use mosaicism in a Sentence

mosaicism

noun
  • Most of the edited embryos also showed mosaicism, in which genomes vary from cell to cell.
    — Laura Dattaro, Scientific American, 10 June 2026
  • Findings made in the past few years reveal that human skin, oesophageal and lung cells show high levels of mosaicism.
    — Kendall Powell, Scientific American, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Doing it later can mean some cells but not others will be edited — a less ideal outcome known as mosaicism.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 23 July 2021
  • Other concerns occur when only some of the embryo cells are repaired, called mosaicism.
    — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2017
  • That problem, known as mosaicism, needs to be solved to produce useful animal models.
    — Gary Stix, Scientific American, 15 Nov. 2016
  • Plus, both babies have a combination of cells with an edit and without an edit, which is called mosaicism.
    — Angela Chen, The Verge, 29 Nov. 2018
  • Previous studies have found high levels of mosaicism in the skin, oesophagus and blood.
    — Heidi Ledford, Scientific American, 14 June 2019
  • These include, for example, mosaicism, where genome editing results in some cells getting different edits to others.
    — WIRED, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Individual embryos also had cells that were edited in different ways, a concept called mosaicism.
    — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Previous embryo-editing attempts in China found not every cell was repaired, a safety concern called mosaicism.
    — Lauran Neergaard, The Seattle Times, 2 Aug. 2017
  • But the key, says Martincorena, is that the latest analysis demonstrated that mosaicism is present across a wide array of tissues.
    — Heidi Ledford, Scientific American, 14 June 2019
  • But scientists are also finding that mosaicism does not automatically equal disease.
    — New York Times, 21 May 2018
  • An article on Tuesday about the genetic condition mosaicism misstated the year in which Theodor Boveri died.
    — New York Times, 22 May 2018
  • Sultan also told the woman the test results were likely due to a rare condition called mosaicism, where a person can have two sets of DNA in their body, court records state.
    — Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2021
  • And some embryos had cells that did not get repaired — a phenomenon called mosaicism that could result in the mutation being passed on — as well as unplanned mutations that could cause other health problems.
    — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Preliminary studies suggest that mosaicism underlies many other diseases.
    — New York Times, 21 May 2018
  • When the protocol is safe—when the problems of unintended mutations and mosaicism are solved in the lab—the urgency of exploiting the new technology to save lives seems likely to push any remaining reservations aside.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Most of the excess was found in the hippocampus, a region of the brain involved in memory, but not in other regions of the brain, nor in a completely different organ like the heart, suggesting a very specific impact on brain mosaicism.
    — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 10 July 2018
  • These mosaic embryos can range from a little abnormal (20 percent) to a lot abnormal (up to 79 percent), based on an analysis of five cells, and there is already argument about what is a safe percentage of mosaicism to transfer.
    — Stephen S. Hall, The Cut, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Other mosaicisms manifest themselves internally.
    — Jerome Groopman, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Wildlife experts told local outlet WVCB that the split color can also come from genetic mosaicism, pigment irregularities during development or gynandromorphism, a rarity that occurs when a lobster has both male and female characteristics.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026

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