cell biology

noun

1. the branch of biology dealing with the study of cells, especially their formation, structure, components, and function.

Example Sentences

"Since luminal cells are believed to be the cells of origin of all of the major types of breast cancer, the fact that these genetic alterations specifically accumulate in luminal cells provides additional support for the hypothesis that these alterations may prime or predispose these cells to cancer development," said co-senior author Dr. Joan Brugge, professor of cell biology at Harvard Medical School.

From Science Daily

"This paper represents progress towards our big picture goal of engineering synthetic tissues," said Morsut, an assistant professor of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, and biomedical engineering at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.

From Science Daily

In this new research, through a set of experiments conducted in collaboration with Dr Ralf Jauch's lab in The University of Hong Kong / Centre for Translational Stem Cell Biology, the team introduced choanoflagellate Sox genes into mouse cells, replacing the native Sox2 gene achieving reprogramming towards the pluripotent stem cell state.

From Science Daily

Karamched uses modeling, mathematical analysis and computer simulations to understand and solve problems in neuroscience and cell biology.

From Science Daily

Rose disagrees with this hypothesis and points to the existence of multicellular animals, which have the same basic cell biology as humans, that don’t age at all.

From Salon