Reticulocytes are terminally differentiating red blood cells that do not contain lysosome. Therefore, it was postulated that the degradation of hemoglobin in these cells is mediated by a non-lysosomal machinery. – Aaron Ciechanover
The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities. – Emil Theodor Kocher
A battery by definition is a collection of cells. So the cell is a little can of chemicals. And the challenge is taking a very high-energy cell, and a large number of them, and combining them safely into a large battery. – Elon Musk
We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells… We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms. – Jonathan Eisen
Mammalian cells of all types disgorge prostaglandins at the slightest provocation, but the tissue content of prostaglandins is very low compared with the release. – John Vane
Epigenetics is very important. We are keeping a close eye on iPS cells and other genetic methods of reprogramming the epigenome. – Liz Parrish
I wondered whether the nuclear transfer techniques could be used to introduce purified macro-molecules into an egg, and hence into embryonic cells. – John Gurdon
Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent. – Ron Suskind
We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings. – Sidney Blumenthal