Sentence examples for half a cell from inspiring English sources

Any cells lying partly within the superimposed hexagonal area were scored as half a cell regardless of what proportion of the cell actually lay within the data point area.

A cancer cell was considered to be motile when it had protruded/translocated at least half a cell length, and the total number of motile cancer cells in a 50 μm Z-stack time-lapse movie was determined.

25, 26 However, it has been shown during T-cell synapse formation experiments that the time needed for an antibody-coated bead to traverse half a cell circumference is approximately 6 min (for a ~10  μm diameter T cell).

Applying these two rules to all inner vertices, we obtain a tiling of the whole network without gaps or overlaps, leaving out only a small stripe at the margin of the network, which is ca. half a cell diameter wide.

34 Assuming a diffusion coefficient of the order of ~0.1  μm/s for receptors on a cell surface, 14 a simple calculation (time~distance/diffusion coefficient) shows that the time needed for receptor to traverse half a cell circumference by pure diffusion is much larger than the time indicated in the work of Wülfing and Davis.

Cognitive psychologists have shown that we find listening to one half of a cell phone conversation particularly annoying, but eminently engaging.

Most households had electricity (62%), but less than half owned a cell phone.

Of course, to anyone with half a brain cell it's obvious that procrastination is stupid.

Anyone with half a brain cell could see how ill he was," recalls Mrs Williams-Ashford, 61.

Anybody with half a brain cell could write those things".

If you lot had even half a brain cell between you, you'd know that as bad you may think I've been -- the Conservatives will be much, much worse.