How to Use mother cell in a Sentence

mother cell

noun
  • In biology, a bacterial colony is a group of identical cells derived from the same mother cell.
    — Noah Giansiracusa, Time, 26 Oct. 2026
  • The mother cell generating the spore covers roughly 87% of the cost of building it, feeding materials to it through a narrow channel, before dissolving herself to set the spore free.
    — Canan Karakoç, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2026
  • In fact, current evidence suggests that the first phosphate-binding proteins are truly ancient – even older than the last universal common ancestor, the hypothetical mother cell to all life on Earth that existed around 4 billion years ago.
    — Liam Longo, The Conversation, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Capture, a skincare collection created to reverse the appearance of aging skin using mother cells, is introducing two new eye treatments, the Pro-Collagen Shot and Eye Creme, for lifting, firming, and reducing natural signs of aging.
    — Essence, 5 Sep. 2025
  • According to professor Knut Woltjen, a partner of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), in collaboration with Dior researchers, between 25 and 90 years old mother cell respiration is reduced by 40 percent.
    — Essence, 5 Sep. 2025

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