How to Use host cell in a Sentence

host cell

noun

• Viruses contain genetic information but depend on host cells to reproduce.
  — Tara Deans, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
• However, while both Sukunaarchaeum and viruses are reliant on a host cell for very basic biological functions, viruses can’t reproduce on their own.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 24 Nov. 2025
• In some experiments, scientists have reactivated viruses that remained capable of infecting host cells after thawing, though none have been linked to human illness.
  — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
• Mpro, an enzyme that allows SARS-CoV-2 to replicate in host cells, holds structural similarities.
  — Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Jan. 2026
• In another study conducted around the same time, Picard found that perturbing mitochondria changed their host cell’s gene expression and growth, even when the organelles’ ability to transform energy was unchanged.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Quanta Magazine, 17 July 2026
• In these insects a betaproteobacterium (the primary endosymbiont) lives inside specialized host cells called bacteriocytes and itself contains a secondary endosymbiont, a gammaproteobacterium.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
• In cells infected with influenza A, FOOD and F-ApoEVs contained viral proteins and even whole virions, which are the complete, infectious viral particles that exist outside a host cell.
  — New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2025