The phrase "a cell rather than" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing two options, indicating a preference for one over the other.
Example: "I prefer to work with a cell rather than a table for this data analysis."
Alternatives: "a cell instead of" or "a cell in place of".
In contrast, mRNA molecules provide protein-making instructions to a cell, rather than the protein itself.
Qi holds a 3D printed model of a modified version of the cas9 protein engineered to deliver DNA to various parts of a cell, rather than cut it.
Cellular stress responses, when countering mild stress, often have overall beneficial effects on a cell, rather than providing merely a survival route.
The report says that genetic modification means changes to the genetic material within a cell, rather than just the nuclear chromosomes of the cell, which is the alternative definition used by scientific advisers in Britain.
You can buy the DVDs, watch them all you like, even swap them with your buddies, as long as the copyright cops don't catch you - but grab a couple of stills from the latter's movies for your PC screensaver or bedroom wall, and you could be looking at the inside of a cell, rather than the outside of an enthusiastic young French bloodsucker.
The issue of deaths in police custody has become fairly well-known; people being left handcuffed and unresponsive for minutes at a time, or dangerously drunk people left to sleep it off in a cell rather than being taken to hospital – that kind of thing is news.
In this way, a muscle stem cell avoids any missteps that could result in it mistakenly becoming a skin or a blood cell rather than a muscle cell.
Exactly which messages tell a stem cell to become a fat cell rather than a bone cell remain a mystery, however.
Aside from this uncontroversial departure from the libretto and a last scene staged in a police cell rather than on a convict march, Tcherniakov plays it pretty straight, drawing sensitively acted and detailed performances from his excellent cast.
This uses mirrors to concentrate sunlight, but focuses it on a solar cell rather than a boiler.
Wiser Tory heads, who fear the party may be in danger of looking like a revolutionary cell rather than a government-in-waiting as it champions Martyr Green, believe the Speaker will go some way to defusing the row if he agrees to hold a debate on the arrest.
