How to Use stem cell in a Sentence

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  • There wasn’t any room for the maternal stem cells to go.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The problem related to stem cell clinics is just the tip of the iceberg.
    — Paul Knoepfler, STAT, 25 Mar. 2022
  • An initial stem cell transplant couldn’t hold off the cancer for more than half a year.
    — Angus Chen, STAT, 2 June 2022
  • 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
  • What is about to emerge with stem cell research is amazing on the anti-aging front.
    — Miami Staff, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • For Nathan, the science involving stem cells and plastic doesn’t quite line up.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 Dec. 2023
  • It’s enriched with fresh rose stem cells to help ward off hair growth disturbances.
    — Jessie Quinn, Peoplemag, 19 Oct. 2023
  • And in this media, the three types of stem cells self-organized to form this embryolike structure.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 16 June 2023
  • Study links graying hair to stem cells getting stuck, unable to color new hair growth.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 2 May 2023
  • The two drugs enabled him to go into remission before the stem cell transplant could take place.
    — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2021
  • His knee, thanks to stem cell treatment and hours of daily management, is feeling good again.
    — Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Once that’s complete, stem cells are taken from the patient’s bone marrow and sent to a lab where they’re modified.
    — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 11 Dec. 2023
  • There is not enough evidence to support the use of stem cell injection for knee arthritis.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 18 May 2022
  • The researchers then plucked a few cells from among the 300 or so in each blastocyst and established embryonic stem cell lines in the lab.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 8 July 2022
  • Elimination of the stem cells at the base would also delay blastema formation by a week or two.
    — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Matching to be a blood stem cell or marrow donor is more complicated than blood type.
    — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022
  • All three patients that appear to be cured of HIV also had cancer and needed a stem cell transplant to save their lives, per Reuters.
    — Corryn Wetzel, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Overall interest in cloning slowed as advances in adult stem cell research gained traction in the 2000s.
    — Bill Frist, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • In this case, the researchers transplanted stem cells, which can develop into any kind of cell.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2023
  • General Hospital star John J. York has begun the process of a blood stem cell transplant.
    — Rosemary Rossi, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
  • Pluripotent stem cells, which can become any cell of the body, come in different varieties.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023

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