single cell

collocation in English

meaningsofsingleandcell

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single
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/us
/ˈsɪŋ.ɡəl/
one ...
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cell
noun[C]
uk
/sel/us
/sel/
the smallest basic unit of a plant ...
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(Definition ofsingleandcellfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Consider the package consisting of asinglecell.
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What does it mean for asinglecellor groups of cells whether the brain as a whole is sleeping?
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However, early findings usingsinglecellrecordings of human receptive fields during imagery tasks have had little impact.
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They derived equations to calculate the number of new-mutant and non-mutant cells in an individual, starting from asinglecell.
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So, evaluation of asinglecellexpression is always performed to normal form.
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On thesinglecelllevel, they can be distinguished most clearly by their pharmacology and immunoreactivity.
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The system allows real-time simultaneous acquisition of fluorescence measurements from multiple areas of interest placed on individual cells or within asinglecell.
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The response latency of asinglecellwas taken as the mean of all saccade related onset activities for each cell.
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We are thus quite certain that the co-fasciculation was between the dendrites of neighboring cells, not those of asinglecell.
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Evaluation of asinglecellexpression is chosen to correspond to evaluation of an initial term in a standard lazy functional language.
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By employing the thermal gelation method, we can overcome the drawback of the mechanical manipulation of thesinglecellin the liquid.
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As demonstrated here, even thesinglecellis a highly complex, nonlinear and interactive system.
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In the present study, where changes in gene expression may be restricted to asinglecelltype, such low transcript numbers may well be undetected.
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A life-on-a-chip detection device could collect an environmental sample and measure the metabolism of asinglecell.
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Figure 1 shows a close-up of a small region of the material and figure 2 shows asinglecellconnected to its eight immediate neighbours.
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