How to Use stem cell in a Sentence

stem cell

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  • Most cells making up the blastema are not stem cells from the bulb that migrate to the tip.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The gene therapies are built on the back of a stem cell transplant.
    — Maryn McKenna, Scientific American, 17 Sep. 2024
  • She is not involved in the stem cell trial and does not know Matthay.
    — J.d. Morris, SFChronicle.com, 8 June 2020
  • There wasn’t any room for the maternal stem cells to go.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The elephant stem cells also hold the key to the mammoth’s rebirth.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The problem related to stem cell clinics is just the tip of the iceberg.
    — Paul Knoepfler, STAT, 25 Mar. 2022
  • He was paralyzed from the shoulders down and in need of stem cell surgery.
    — Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Pluripotent stem cells have the potential to become any type of cell in the body.
    — Aitor Aguirre, The Conversation, 10 May 2024
  • The fatty tissue in the middle and ends of your largest bones gives rise to the body’s best pinch hitters: stem cells.
    — Popular Science, 4 Feb. 2020
  • An initial stem cell transplant couldn’t hold off the cancer for more than half a year.
    — Angus Chen, STAT, 2 June 2022
  • Seven people around the world have now been cured of HIV through stem cell transplants.
    — Maya Goldman, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
  • And a stem cell graft risks its own immune problems, if the new cells begin to fight their host in the days, months, or even years down the road.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Now his stem cells had matched with an unknown patient.
    — Ben Paynter, Men's Health, 26 June 2023
  • These models are made from stem cells, not egg and sperm, and can’t grow into babies.
    — Laura Ungar, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
  • The stem cell transplant procedure, which takes two months, is brutal — and the film isn’t an easy watch.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 17 Sep. 2021
  • What is about to emerge with stem cell research is amazing on the anti-aging front.
    — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • As is the case with Hodgkin lymphoma, high-dose chemo plus stem cell transplants may also be used.
    — Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 1 July 2024
  • This method led to the discovery of the nerve growth factor in the 1950s, and scientists still use it today to study stem cells.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2020
  • How fringe stem cell treatments won far-right allies Help!
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 20 July 2021
  • Other groups are trying to grow human organs from stem cells in the lab.
    — Emily Mullin, WIRED, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The Düsseldorf patient received the stem cell transplant to treat his leukemia.
    — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Then, a stem cell transplant built her a new immune system.
    — Maria Streshinsky, Wired, 12 June 2020
  • The other type of stem cell divided to create two types of daughter cells.
    — Craig Ceol, The Conversation, 10 July 2023
  • Yu was diagnosed with leukemia in March, and doctors said his best chance to beat it would be a stem cell transplant.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
  • After a patient’s stem cells have been treated, the patient has to stay in the hospital for a month.
    — Gina Kolata Kenny Holston, New York Times, 6 May 2024
  • The report highlighted the case of a 65-year-old man who underwent a stem cell transplant.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The grants show that the field of stem cell therapies and research is rapidly expanding.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The 33-year-old scientist had been in D.C. all week for a conference on stem cell research.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Help raise awareness for blood stem cell and bone marrow transplants.
    — Mary Lou Cruz, sun-sentinel.com, 21 May 2021
  • But for now, the results suggest the trial is paving the way for stem cell therapy in the treatment of diabetes.
    — Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2024

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