Sentence examples for foreign cell from inspiring English sources

Not recognizing a foreign cell, the immune system does not create antibodies.

"The tumor has no foreign cell surface markers," said Dr. Katherine Belov, a scientist in the Australasian Wildlife Genomics Group at the University of Sidney.

If they are linked to radical Islam, they will raise once more the spectre of homegrown terrorists; for these days it is far harder for a foreign cell to set up in the US than was the case with the 19 hijackers involved in the 9/11 attacks.

The sperm cell as a foreign cell to the body might be engulfed by leukocytes.

Several distantly related, phagotrophic microeukaryotes share the remarkable ability to perforate foreign cell walls in a well-defined pattern to acquire protoplast material as food.

Boyer helped create the science of gene splicing, in which DNAfrom one organism is injected into a foreign cell to produce, en masse, a desired protein.

With "foreign" cells, like bacteria, the immune system works like a well-organized militia.

The lymphocytes regulate or participate in the acquired immunity to foreign cells and antigens.

Antibodies circulate in the body until latching on to foreign cells, called antigens, which they destroy.

Now, as the field of immunology has flowered, scientists have identified several cells that act in concert to reject foreign cells.

The workers' immune systems produced antibodies to destroy the foreign cells, but because porcine and human neurological cells are so similar, the antibodies didn't recognise when the foreign cells had been eliminated – and began destroying the healthy human neural tissue of the workers.