How to Use vesicle in a Sentence

vesicle

noun
  • The team will next attempt to isolate the bead-like vesicles to learn a bit more about them.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
  • If the vesicles come from the host ants, the contents could be an immune response of some kind.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 July 2019
  • Exosomes are small vesicles that are shed by both cancerous and healthy cells in the blood.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 8 Apr. 2024
  • These lipids are the perfect size to fit within the vesicles of that ceramic fabric.
    — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The chemicals are enclosed in tiny vesicles called exosomes that the cells shed.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 Aug. 2017
  • In the latter case, the vesicles contain dopamine, not protein aggregates.
    — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2017
  • And inside the Ziploc baggies or these vesicles are messages for other cells.
    — Ryma Chikhoune, WWD, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The virus is then pinched off into a vesicle and carried deeper into the cell, toward the nucleus.
    — Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The vesicles are popular in cocktails, as condiments, garnishes, and as an accent to fish.
    — Nan Sterman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 31 May 2018
  • Virus replication occurs in a special compartment walled off from the rest of the cell by a double membrane vesicle.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Like miniature pockets of life, vesicles resemble the structure and function of modern cells.
    — Discover Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Rome assigned her the task of comparing the vesicles entering lysosomes with the ones exiting.
    — Byjohn Travis, science.org, 6 June 2024
  • The proteins are clustered in one vesicle and then another vesicle and then finally handed off to the lysosome.
    — Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Some of them even worked inside fatty acid vesicles, a laboratory stand-in for protocells.
    — Roland Pease, Science | AAAS, 12 July 2017
  • Exosomes are vesicles from cells, which essentially are clusters of cell debris.
    — Essence, 29 Sep. 2025
  • As a result, vesicles like exosomes which can address skin concerns at the cellular level are of great interest.
    — Essence, 29 Sep. 2025
  • And when the researchers prevented astrocytes from using vesicles, the cells could no longer release glutamate.
    — Laura Dattaro, Quanta Magazine, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Chickenpox is easily recognized because the skin around the vesicles is normal.
    — Parents Editors, Parents, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Cells use tiny vesicles called exosomes to communicate with one another, and they’re commonly shed by both cancer cells and healthy cells.
    — Charlotte Hu, Vox, 4 June 2024
  • Unlike the teardrop sacs in regular citrus, the finger lime’s greenish-white or pinkish vesicles are round and firm and do indeed resemble caviar.
    — Earl Nickel, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Next, the acrosome, a vesicle inside the sperm cell’s head, fuses with the outer layer of the egg, igniting the release of enzymes that ease the route inside.
    — Randi Hutter Epstein, New York Times, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Third place went to Chris Romaine for an image of a cannabis plant leaf, which reveals cannabinoid vesicles as pink bubbles on hair-like plant appendages called trichomes.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2024
  • This tube contains 15 billion virus-like vesicles—small sacs of noninfectious particles replicated in a lab.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 July 2025
  • This protein is involved in the formation of the structure of the double-membrane vesicle replication compartment.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 11 July 2022
  • When the synapsin is phosphorylated, the droplet rapidly dissipates and the vesicles are freed to spill the neurotransmitters into the synapse.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2018
  • Cancers shed not only cells, but also hormones, DNA and little fatty bubbles called vesicles into the blood and lymph.
    — Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
  • They are anchored to the underlying surface, unlike most other extracellular vesicles that float away.
    — New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The Orf1a proteins are required for the formation of the double-membrane vesicle necessary for virus replication.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The saltwater environment was also beneficial, as the fat molecules formed a stronger, more stable vesicle, or structure.
    — Fox News, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Instead, Rizo-Rey uses Frontera to make a model of the millions of atoms that make up a vesicle, the edge of a brain cell and the key proteins involved in fusion.
    — Dallas News, 14 July 2022

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