human cell

collocation in English

meaningsofhumanandcell

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human
adjective
uk
/ˈhjuː.mən/us
/ˈhjuː.mən/
being, relating to, or belonging to a person or to people as opposed ...
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cell
noun[C]
uk
/sel/us
/sel/
the smallest basic unit of a plant ...
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(Definition ofhumanandcellfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Like experience and memory of past generations are encoded in thehumancell, a people's history lives in the word.
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The bacterium is capable of adhering to, and entering into, a range ofhumancelltypes, which facilitates its ability to cause disease.
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Subretinal transplantation of genetically modifiedhumancelllines attenuates loss of visual function in dystrophic rats.
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The cell line was already patented by the defendants, and this and many otherhumancelllines were already defined and in use as patented inventions.
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Mo and thousands of otherhumancelllines like it currently circulate through the glass and plastic vessels of biotechnology and biomedicine; many more are continuously being established.
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I am advised that thehumancellhas an estimated 100,000 genes.
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The debate yet to come onhumancellresearch will produce the most profound concerns for us all.
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Also in 1984 the same university study showed that fluoride causes genetic damage in ahumancellculture.
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A minute quantity in everyhumancellis able to control cell functions, the growth and development of nerves, muscles, the brain and every vital organ.
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This is manufactured by taking the gene that provides the instructions to ahumancellto produce insulin and inserting it into the genome of a bacterium.
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First, we must realise that thehumancell, or any animal cell, when taken away from the whole organism, can never contract like a muscle, such as a heart muscle.
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I do not know how mouse lymphoma cells differ from hamster cells,humancellcultures or any other cells into which sodium fluoride has been injected.
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These engineeredhumancellmodels are thought to more accurately reflect the genetics of human diseases than their mouse model predecessors.
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The company is named for the 23 pairs of chromosomes in a normalhumancell.
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In a common situation ahumancellhas one pair of identical chromosomes on chromosome 1.
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It is the oldest and most commonly usedhumancellline.
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It was not realized at the time that nearly all attempts to establishhumancellcultures resulted in cell lines with limited life spans.
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Studies estimate that as many as 5,000 purines are lost this way each day in a typicalhumancell.
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However, his powers do have limitations, such as that he can not create matter beyond the normalhumancellgrowth.
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For example, ahumancellhas 46 chromosomes, which is an integer multiple of the monoploid number, 23.
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