megakaryocyte
noun
mega·kar·yo·cyte
ˌme-gə-ˈka-rē-ō-ˌsīt 
ˌme-gə-ˈker-ē-ō-ˌsīt
: a large cell that has a lobulated nucleus, is found especially in the bone marrow, and is the source of blood platelets
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To try to better understand this previously unknown effect of aspirin, cardiologist Deepak Voora of Duke University and his colleagues looked at cells called megakaryocytes, which give rise to platelets.
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Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
The end result of all this genetic manipulation: the platelets produced by the megakaryocytes did not clump together, which presumably prevented them from camouflaging cancer cells.
—Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
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Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
The end result of all this genetic manipulation: the platelets produced by the megakaryocytes did not clump together, which presumably prevented them from camouflaging cancer cells.
—Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
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megakaryocyte
noun
mega·kary·o·cyte
ˌmeg-ə-ˈkar-ē-ō-ˌsīt
: a large cell that has a lobulated nucleus, is found especially in the bone marrow, and is the source of blood platelets
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