How to Use tissue culture in a Sentence

tissue culture

noun
  • All tests, so far, have been in tissue culture, not in animals.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2011
  • The tiny orchid starters that Toine receives are grown from tissue culture.
    — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 14 May 2026
  • 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
  • That kind of expertise lay in a burgeoning field called tissue culture.
    — Ainissa Ramirez, Scientific American, 17 June 2021
  • Core resources such as tissue culture rooms and animal facilities filled up fast.
    — David Grimm, Science | AAAS, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Advertisement The first problem was that there was no method at the time to grow HPV in tissue cultures.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
  • Because ‘Cavendish’ produces no seeds, it can only be propagated by division or tissue culture.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Professional growers use heat treatments and tissue culture to control viral disease.
    — The Editors Of Organic Life, Good Housekeeping, 21 July 2015
  • 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
  • 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
  • Scientists hope to one day create synthetic mucins for both research and treatment and have put quite a bit of work into developing tissue culture for their production.
    — Diana Kwon, Discover Magazine, 9 July 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
  • These bananas are sterile and dependent on propagation via cloning, either by using suckers and cuttings taken from the underground stem or through modern tissue culture.
    — Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2016
  • Even in soybeans, a notoriously difficult crop to modify, the method achieved efficient gene editing with minimal tissue culture steps.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The new method, led by associate professor Gunvant Patil, dramatically reduces the time needed to regenerate plants and eliminates one of the biggest bottlenecks in biotechnology, tissue culture.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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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