How to Use roan in a Sentence

roan

noun
  • In theory, that would mean rewriting 18 million points of code to convert a living roan cell to a reborn bluebuck cell.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 Apr. 2026
  • After a 278-day gestation period, the roan mother will give birth to a bluebuck calf.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Colossal scientists have also generated stem cells from the roan antelope that can be edited to produce offspring with bluebuck traits.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The roan cells are easy enough to collect—plenty of the animals are at large in sub-Saharan Africa in the west, central, and eastern parts of the continent.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Overall, the researchers have found, the roan and the bluebuck differ by just 3% of their overall genome—but that 3% is represented by 18 million sequence variants.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Colossal researchers will do their work by first sequencing the genome of both a bluebuck and its close surviving relative, the roan antelope, looking for the differences that distinguish one species from the other.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 Apr. 2026
  • Advertisement Once the differences between the roan and bluebuck are determined, the researchers will edit the DNA in a roan cell accordingly.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The effort builds on roughly two years of development, during which the company has assembled the ancient bluebuck genome, created a reference genome using the roan antelope, completed comparative genomic analysis, and established foundational cellular and reproductive systems for the species.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
  • Scientists have assembled a high-quality genome with 40-fold coverage, significantly higher than earlier projects (dire wolf genomes, in comparison, had 13-fold coverage), and completed comparative analysis using the roan antelope, the bluebuck's closest living relative.
    — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 1 May 2026
  • Scientific breakthroughs could also aid in antelope conservation Hofreiter and other researchers created a bluebuck genome from a specimen at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, identifying the roan and sable antelope as the bluebuck's closest living relatives.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026

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