cell line

American

noun

Cell Biology.

a perpetuating strain of cells in laboratory culture.

cell line British

noun

biology a clone of animal or plant cells that can be grown in a suitable nutrient culture medium in the laboratory

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Etymology

Origin of cell line

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

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The cell line, called "HeLa" after the patient's first and last name, was sent to research labs around the world.

From BBC

Both significantly accelerated tumor growth and increased metastatic colonization in independent cell line models.

From Science Daily

They used CRISPR/Cas9 to introduce the exact same mutation into a healthy stem cell line.

From Science Daily

One dataset came from a human leukemia cell line that is commonly used to study red blood cell traits.

From Science Daily

In earlier work, an MIT researcher who was not involved in this study had switched off each gene in that cell line, one at a time, and tracked how losing that gene changed genetic activity.

From Science Daily

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