Maybe she even tried to call, left a message on Mom’s cell phone, apologizing that there’d been an emergency and she wouldn’t be home for our visit. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took him to jail, booked him for vagrancy and intoxication, and locked him in a cell. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We lived in single cells along a corridor and he and I were given cells at opposite ends. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Make no mistake—weed kills vital brain cells, dulls critical-thinking skills and reaction time. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Grasping the loose waistband of his trousers, the philosopher stood up and bowed almost without realizing it, again and again, as the President of the Consistorial Court of Discipline left his cell. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

For the first few days we were kept locked in our cell and not even permitted outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was conjoined by mystery and fate, and in his darkened cell he meditated on this and it became increasingly clear to him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I also wondered what she and Dad were going to say when they found out I dropped our cell phone in the water. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Four states banned talking on a handheld cell phone. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She gripped her cell phone in her hand; Mamma and Papa had already called three times just today to find out the results. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“There are cells down in die bowels of easterly Rock where my lord father kept the worst of ours.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Learning happens when brain cells make new connections. The strength of these connections is enhanced by a group of proteins in the brain called growth factors.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“The screen is just boring because the cells are so small, even with a microscope you can’t see them sometimes.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly rising, he crossed the cell and picked up a broom. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

And patenting cell lines didn’t require informing or getting permission from the “cell donors.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Many scientists needed cells, but few had the time or ability to grow them in large enough quantities. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had begun to like him on the September afternoon when he first appeared at his cell door carrying a folded chessboard beneath his arm and a Havana cigar box full of chess pieces. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I bonk my head on the inside of my sleep cell as a soft voice speaks over the ship’s comm system, jolting me awake. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Well, what I always find is that when you take a break and move some muscles, it helps stimulate those brain cells.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His cell had been cleaned out, and all his junk was piled there. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, closeted in my stone cell, I write. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Rooms for staff were not included in B-block’s plan, so a few cells near the front gate have been converted for that purpose. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He led us around to the front, where there were two rows of jail cells, all of them empty. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And much of that was thanks to cells from one woman, “an unsung heroine of medicine.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I saw tiny cells with very little air and no light. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is talking in Bengali on his cell phone, complaining of traffic on the FDR, of difficult passengers, as they sail uptown, past the shuttered shops and restaurants on Eighth Avenue. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Av’s zoologist brother Murdoch had already come, and he enjoyed cornering people to talk about how cells divide. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But he had been confined twenty-three hours a day to his cell, with no distractions, no companionship or beauty. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

We weren’t supposed to have cell phones, but I’d noticed that some of the Weekday Warriors carried them surreptitiously. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

To understand why cellular cloning was important, you need to know two things: First, HeLa didn’t grow from one of Henrietta’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I'm alone with Commander Jameson and a new rotation of soldiers standing near the cell's door. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

And with each new injection, their bodies responded faster, which seemed to indicate that the cells were increasing the inmates’ immunity to cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They don’t have enough red blood cells left to carry oxygen to the brain. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The mitochondria do not arise de novo in cells; they are always there, replicating on their own, independently of the replication of the cell. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They also found that when they blocked the HPV DNA, cervical cancer cells stopped being cancerous. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Who said anything about killing?” growled Basta as he closed the cell door behind him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They all look the same—they’re just clear until we put color on them with a dye. You can’t tell what color a person is from their cells.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was stripped of his clothing, put in a cell, and not allowed a phone call to enlist help. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If you believe the Bible is the literal truth, the immortality of Henrietta’s cells makes perfect sense. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Especially after we made our agreement to use the outdoor latrine at night so the whole cell wouldn’t have to endure bad smells while we’re trying to sleep. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he flung it again through the bars of the cell. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

On what seemed to be the morning of the third day, one of his interrogators and three other guards entered Shin’s cell. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She keeps her eyes focused on it, like she can’t bear to be parted from the hot-pink headphones and her cell phone. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t even have a cell phone, which of course made me the biggest dork around. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And what of the many other pesticides that interfere with cell division, break chromosomes, cause mutations? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She found Ms. Hussey standing alone, her back to the door, talking on a cell phone. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

As we waited for our food, my mom pulled out a cell phone box and passed it to me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“But if they cloning her cells, does that mean someday they could clone my mother?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I had my cell phone in my hand. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

But then she thought of Nestor falling lifeless in the snow, of the cells full of Grisha lost in their own misery, all because of this drug. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Through blurred eyes he saw men peering at him from the bars of other cells. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I can see where our paths will intersect, between where I stand now and my cell door. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah had never heard about needing to copyright anything, but the family had always thought they should talk to a lawyer about the cells, and Cofield sounded like one they could afford. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

His cell phone chimed as he was slinging the bag onto his shoulders, but he ignored it. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He was walked to another building, and was put into another, empty cell. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

While I was in my hospital cell I stayed away from the drugs. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Don’t doctors have to tell you when they use your cells in research? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Twisted into yet other shapes, they also form receptors, hormones, and signaling molecules, allowing cells to communicate with one another. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The red blood cells of people of European descent look roughly globular. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I helped make sure my group of escorted inmates got locked into their cells, then went down to the flats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could never guess whether Suzanne knew unconsciously that something strange was happening in the cells of her body, that a silent hijacking was already under way. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When the cell door slid open, he stood in the center of the floor, his hands in the air, his eyes level. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Most of it is underground, consisting of a network of microscopic cells called mycelium. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The gate to the cell opened, and they entered. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In 2004 two U.S. anthropologists and a Venezuelan medical researcher proposed that Native American susceptibility to infectious disease might have a second cause: helper-T cells, which like HLAs help the immune system recognize foreign objects. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I reached for a metal post that supported the ceiling and spun around, lifting my feet off the floor as I thought about the Mosses in their respective jail cells. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Like minute scouts inspecting potential battle zones, leukocytes constantly scan cell walls for the little bits of stuff that HLAs have carried there, trying to spot anything that doesn’t belong. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But don’t be asking me to help. Cleaning the cells ain’t my job.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one slice, there might be thousands of cells that needed to be searched—and you still might not find what you were looking for. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wickersham had already been in touch with the Box and had reserved a cell for my assailant. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I call Dad on his cell and ask if I can stay. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When I finally open my eyes, I see that I'm now in a small, windowless cell with four steel walls. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

However tall it grows, a tree is just a few pounds of living cells thinly spread between roots and leaves. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’s slightly less miserable now to be out of my cell, out of solitary, and talking to a few people from time to time. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first, at 1 per cent of the present level, shielded out enough ultraviolet radiation to permit cells to move into the surface layers of lakes, rivers, and oceans. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each floor had two galleries, back to back, with fifteen cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's one slight problem with my plan: I don't have any way to "record" the wattage from an abandoned solar cell. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back to me: “I called your father. He’s not picking up, work, cell, home—” “He’s traveling.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The narrow space outside the cells was stuffed with inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one, the other cells were filled. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

If especially susceptible the cell may be killed outright, or finally, after the passage of time measured in years, it may become malignant. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The membranes lining the inner compartment of mitochondria are unlike other animal cell membranes, and resemble most closely the membranes of bacteria. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One scientist estimates that if you could pile all HeLa cells ever grown onto a scale, they’d weigh more than 50 million metric tons —an inconceivable number, given that an individual cell weighs almost nothing. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The unknown agent could infect monkey cells and pop them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time that cell divided, in the many embryological steps that went into making you, the original set of genetic instructions was duplicated with great fidelity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cell phone rang as soon as I stepped outside. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“As if I didn’t know that,” I say, redialing Tats’s cell. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She, the lone survivor, will start a small paper nest in the spring, lay a few eggs in its cells, and carefully rear a small force of workers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In my yellow cell I filled a brown cardboard suitcase with my belongings and carried it down to the discharge officer's station for my final inspection. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Grotesquely, the autopsy room was situated in the Death House, next to the cells of Death Row. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time I visited, we’d walk the Baltimore Harbor, ride boats, read science books together, and talk about her mother’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I had the idea that I’d write a book that was a biography of both the cells and the woman they came from—someone’s daughter, wife, and mother. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Or maybe she has a work phone and a personal cell phone, and all the other messages were on that other phone. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But what of the other little animals, similarly established in my cells, sorting and balancing me, clustering me together? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I return to our cell, I tell Amma the news in our own language because I don't want everyone else knowing. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The man in the next cell was praying loudly. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The inmate, I knew, could plug it into the outlet in his cell, place a pan on it, and do some home cooking. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We continue toward the front part of the ship, as far from my room and the safety of my cell as I could be. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Shay’s long-range hoverboard was thicker, and glimmered with the facets of solar cells. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

At 1:28 a.m. a policeman opened the door of the cell and told me that there was someone to see me. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly this has become enough for them, the new low standard, just to see where he’s hiding, get the feel of the cell, the bunker. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to a printout in Cradle’s office, he was the block’s longest-term keeplock, having spent the past seventeen months in his cell, with three more to go, a sentence within a sentence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several hours later they saw medical personnel remove his body from the cell on a gurney. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“How about a holding cell, smart guy? You like that idea?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I was lifted out of the dark cell of my own mind, to become part of someone else—just as I had experienced it that day on the couch in therapy. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He found his sandals and his cell phone and worked up the courage to step outside by himself. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

At that time of year, the cells were so cold and the blankets provided so little warmth that we always slept fully dressed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moment my foot hits the smooth black floor of the prison, the inside of Moreau’s glass cell transforms into a scene of a fancy party full of people celebrating. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Walter Noel’s red blood cells and liver cells contained the same genetic information—but gene regulation ensured that the hemoglobin protein was only present in red blood cells, and not in the liver. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Afterward he sought out Ghost in the loneliness of his cell, and buried his face in his thick white fur. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You said you needed a messenger,” Barry hissed into his cell phone, wincing when it brushed the gauze taped over his split cheek. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Each time they passed, Ana and Alba sang with the strength of their despair, and female voices rose from the other cells. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He goes to the door of the bus and calls to Sasha, who roams the sidewalk with a cell phone, charred legs. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The door opened and then shut and Milo and Tock found themselves in a high vaulted cell with two tiny windows halfway up on the wall. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He appears to be lost in thought and whatever has got his brain cells occupied is having a strange effect on his facial muscles. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m on my cell, and the connection isn’t great. What was that about the bracelet?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“It seems to me the simplest explanation,” he told the audience, “is that they are all HeLa cell contaminants.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The inmate? Or the taxpayers who put out a hundred thousand dollars for each of these cells?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lifted up her cell phone to show me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

At 7:15, we were taken into a tiny cell with a single drainage hole in the floor which could be flushed only from the outside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we broke the cells or rendered them useless, the Hab wouldn't be able to make power, and the mission would end. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warden will be at work in the cell house. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because sperm cells are basically devoid of mitochondria, almost all of an embryo’s mitochondria come from the egg. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Many chemicals used as pesticides — herbicides as well as insecticides — belong to this group of substances that have the ability to damage the chromosomes, interfere with normal cell division, or cause mutations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

People got rich off my mother without us even knowin about them takin her cells, now we don’t get a dime. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The cells had died and drifted away, leaving holes in the carpet. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gey and his colleagues had been complaining that they wasted too much time just making medium and trying to keep cells alive. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you mean the dress or the cell?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But I always have thought it was strange, if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can’t afford to see no doctors? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He started reading news reports about HeLa cells and the contamination problem and realized it would make a great story for Rolling Stone—the perfect mix of science and human interest. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There were billions of conscientious body cells oxidating away day and night like dumb animals at their complicated job of keeping him alive and healthy, and every one was a potential traitor and foe. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Then she storms away and slams the cell door behind her. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Proteins, Brenner and Jacob knew, are synthesized within a cell by a specialized cellular component called the ribosome. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Maybe her cells have done good for some people, but I woulda rather had my mother. If she hadn’t been sacrificed, I mighta growed up to be a lot better person than I am now.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Should wait for the cops,” the guy with the cell phone said. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“And if you and your fluorescent uniform don’t get out of my way, I’ll yank your operating license and have you thrown into the cells for obstructing an LEP officer.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

While Ms. Sitton and Mrs. Thornton check us into the hotel room, all the girls use their cell phones to take selfies and post them on the Internet. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then the soldiers come to a sudden stop halfway down the corridor, a good distance away from my cell. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

With that camera, Gey and his mentor, Warren Lewis, filmed the growth of cells, a process so slow—like the growth of a flower—the naked eye couldn’t see it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A consequence of putting men in cells and controlling their movements is that they can do almost nothing for themselves. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last night after everyone had gone to bed, Emma had crept back out of her room and gone downstairs and slipped Mom’s cell phone out of her purse. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The caduceus changed into a cell phone and Hermes slipped it into his pocket. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

There is an agitated moving of bees back and forth, like granules in cell sap. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped up and paced the length of the cell. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

For example, if you cut a jellyfish in half, it might just become two jellyfish; they can divide in the same way cells do. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

All of my belongings had been dumped into the new cell. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I talked to many scientists about HeLa, and none could explain why Henrietta’s cells grew so powerfully when many others didn’t even survive. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When a leukocyte spots an anomaly—a bit of virus, say—it destroys the infected or contaminated cell immediately. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The National High Command was at the top; below it were Regional Commands in each of the provinces, and below that there were local commands and cells. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was relieved to get him back in his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If all the cells in our body did this, we’d be immortal. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had not been let out of the cellblock once, and had been let out of the cell only to shower; the shower itself had bars. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

His answer: assemble machines much smaller than living cells, materials stronger and lighter than any available today. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take this big black kid they put me in a cell with, Rondell. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And since Windy’s not good at whispering, Maddie looks up from her cell phone, which she’s playing with under her desk. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She will buy her husband a cell phone for Christmas, she decides. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I see him in my mind’s eye, huddled in a dark prison cell, his face hollow, his body shaking. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Around the far side of the prison, rows of windows were stacked three stories high in straight floors, forty-five cells to each side of a tier. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Inside every nucleus within each cell in your body, there’s an identical copy of your entire genome. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He thought that a wild strain of bacteria had invaded the cell culture. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sergeant John Mason strode to a spot where he could see Guiteau's cell window. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The analogy is more poetic than precise, for the cell accomplishes its “burning” with only the moderate heat of the body’s normal temperature. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was running keeplock showers and came to his cell to take him to his. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guys on my cell block are all worked up over some shooting what happened down in Underhill. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Later that day, the man who had spoken to me in Urdu, Dr. Javid Kayani, came in with his cell phone. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It's been in the nice, warm environment of the Hab all night, with plenty of light on its sparkling clean solar cells. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never bargained on descent from single cells without nuclei. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He swears he knew naught of the plot. Who can say? The man is half Lannister, half Frey, and all liar. I put him in Jaime's old tower cell." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The white cells of paper dissolve as the red floods them. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The cell was a beaker of chemicals, biochemists argued, a pouch of compounds bound by a membrane that were reacting to produce a phenomenon called “life.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ever since she’d gotten her own cell phone at the start of sixth grade, she was constantly on her phone, messaging other people and checking celebrity sites. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

As a consequence, there have been extra guards patrolling the hall outside our cell, so I didn’t dare write until tonight. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Angry voices got closer and closer, and suddenly the latch to my cell shook until it finally unhinged and the door swung open. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She turned around and took a defensive stance against the other people storming into my tiny cell. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I dreamed of Marcus sitting alone in his prison cell at the end of a long hallway. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

"Does honor stop at the Bloody Cate? You accuse me of crimes, I deny them, so you throw me into an open cell to freeze and starve." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We hid the manuscript in our shirts as we walked back to our cells. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the tiny barred window of their cell the women could see them, so close that if they had been able to reach out they could have touched them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, he wandered over to Mac’s cell and told him that he wanted to enter a newspaper contest that required an essay. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those chemicals have been proven to cause cancer, damage nerve cells, and disrupt your endocrine system—your hormones. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Saline, on U-and-Z, had seen smoke billowing out of a cell and, unsure if there was anyone inside, had pulled his pin on his way to the fire extinguisher. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I tell people the story of Henrietta Lacks and her cells, their first question is usually Wasn’t it illegal for doctors to take Henrietta’s cells without her knowledge? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I'm more worried about the solar cells I probably rolled over. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned back, and Lacey and Radar were both holding cell phones to their ears. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The extractors took a break and then bulldozed their way into a third cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a home phone but no cell phones. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was heading west with no adult supervision, no backup plan, not even a cell phone. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The barrel-vaulted entry was cold and bare, lit by the same harsh light as the Grisha cells in the prison wing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“They only can leave their cells in an emergency, and in that case you’ve got to have a supervisor standing there.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A bruise. Perhaps a sprain. Maestor Aemon will give you a salve. Go with him, Todder, that head wants looking after. The rest of you, return to your cells. Not you, Snow. You stay." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

To prevent urine and feces from coming into contact with the boy’s wounds, he carried the cell’s chamber pot to Shin and hoisted him up so he could use it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Each cell had two jacks in the wall for the headphones its occupant was issued upon arrival. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would imagine Malcolm, his body bound in a cell, studying the books, trading his human eyes for the power of flight. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

They are led through four metal doors into a courtyard, then into three small cells. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

If he placed his faith in Christ and used whatever brain cells he had left, the solution would come to him. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

"I brought you from your cell to carry my message to your cousin Cersei Lannister in King's Landing. You'll travel under a peace banner, with thirty of my best men to escort you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t have a cell phone, I’d never texted. He might as well have been talking about nuclear physics.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They cut HeLa cells apart and exposed them to endless toxins, radiation, and infections. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

By off the plastic he meant that the dead cells had detached from the surface of the flask and had floated away in the broth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each cell had one window, about a foot square, covered with iron bars. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought we’d start in the freezer room so I can show you how we store your mother’s cells, then we can go look at them alive under a microscope.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The Westerosi who came over from the Windblown with the three Domishmen. We still have them in cells, do we not? Use them.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Over the man’s screams Bigger heard a voice calling from another cell. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1900s, Carrel’s chicken-heart cells supposedly proved that all cells had the potential for immortality. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Eventually they opened up a little storefront church, and for a while Deborah stopped worrying so much about her mother’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

By the early 1940s, biochemists had broken cells apart to reveal their chemical constituents and identified various molecules in living systems—but the molecule that carried the code of heredity was still unknown. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The cells had recently been painted and reeked of paint fumes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though part of me knows that fresh air is better than a hot, stuffy cell, I wish I were back there. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She reaches for her cell phone, checks the screen. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

While she stared at it, I wrote down my email address and cell number on the notepad, which Trevor handed to me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“They found things— hair, skin cells—in his house, but he doesn’t deny that she went there. Well, he did deny it at first, then he admitted that she had been there.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Breakfast consisted of mealie pap porridge, cereal made from maize or corn, which the general prisoners would slop in a bowl and then spin through the bars of our cells. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after guards led him out of the cell and locked its door, he never saw Uncle again. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I decided I would do just that, but then I remembered the more pressing matter of inmates still outside their cells who were claim-ing to be porters. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cited Dr. David Strayer, the University of Utah scientist who’d failed to get the cell phone industry’s attention and then struck out on his own. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

"Recharging. He's got all the solar cells set up," Mindy said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

That accidental discovery was the first of several developments that would allow two researchers from Spain and Sweden to discover that normal human cells have forty-six chromosomes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Cancer cells already have a defective respiration, so with additional damage they die. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They said they were being tested to see if they had the cancer that killed Henrietta, but according to the reporters, scientists were studying the Lacks family to learn more about Henrietta’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Wait a minute—there was something wrong with this cell. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, doing so would have forever connected Henrietta and her family with the cells and any medical information eventually derived from their DNA. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He pointed out that a few years earlier, when scientists started taking protective measures against cross-species contamination—such as working under sterile hoods—it had suddenly become harder to grow new cell lines. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, his cell was close to my office. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The rule is that they can’t be leaning against the bars of the cells,” the regular officer said to us, “and the cell gates are supposed to be closed.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The slaver's white drop couldn't stop the spread of African cells. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

About the moment I was thrown into the festival holding cell. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Viruses that are outside cells merely sit there; nothing happens. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I was fully awake, I had Nico pinned to the floor of the cell with the edge of my sword at his throat. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

If I can find a way out of this cell, and arm myself with a soldier's weapons and vest, I have a fighting chance to get out of Batalla Hall. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The High Organ also operated a cell system, with each cell consisting of three members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I run back inside and straight to my room, which is starting to feel like a prison cell. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The cell was just like the ones on the top level of the prison, but the observation panel was on the other side—a large mirror that took up half of the opposite wall. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He was looking into a corner of one cell. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singleton again explained about the cell phone records, the eleven text messages that took place before or just during the accident. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Phelan grabbed the keys from the guy’s belt, strode over to the inmate’s cell door, unlocked it, and flung it open with a bang. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the bacterial cells had stopped growing, as if reconsidering their diet, switched to lactose, and resumed growth again. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then I emailed Katie that I’d just gotten back from a lab draw and—good news!—my white blood cell count was down. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not been in my cell long when I was visited by the commanding officer and a number of other prison officials. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had stepped directly into a tiny sitting room, which had the feeling of a dark, padded cell. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I am amused by everything she says—McDonald’s food is really plastic, downtown Detroit will be all white in ten years, the government watches us through our cell phones. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She’d been stuck in that black hole of a cell for so long. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Because his white blood cells can identify and destroy the infected cells, this man doesn’t get sick. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He reached into his pocket and held out his cell phone. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

"But one guard won't be enough, we need to kill them all to open the cell." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It would be foolish to assume that any single agent is responsible for damaging the chromosomes or causing their erratic behavior during cell division. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Everywhere you turned there were college students in T-shirts, signing people up for sickle cell anemia testing and voter registration. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the elevator doors opened on the fourth floor, I saw Gus’s mom pacing in the waiting room, talking on a cell phone. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The way to his cell was straight ahead, but he turned right, toward the center gate, which led to the civilian offices. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She called Zeitoun’s cell phone in case he had found some place to charge it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The words begin to shoot around the cell, exploding off the walls, striking Helmuth like bullets. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The location of the mitochondria within certain cells is eloquent of their function, since they are placed so that energy can be delivered precisely where it is needed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I left the room and the moment I returned to my cell I worked over my face. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He went to the front of the cell and there he saw the same guard. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Brademas is like one of those TV cops in the interrogation cell. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

They are transferred from their prison cells to a much larger, invisible cage. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

After the biting cold of the ice cells, the crowded cellar was so hot that Jon felt suffocated from the moment he came down the steps. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We move in tiny bits, cell by cell, roots inching farther, buds nudged into the sunlight. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Miraculously, inside each egg one cell became two, two became four, then eight. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“We only want to visit her cell,” Jacqueline said to the guard. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Every cell of your body is a kind of commune, with once free-living parts all banded together for the common good. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The natural culprit was an abnormality in the gene for hemoglobin—the protein that carries oxygen and is present abundantly in red cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He snaps every cute pose she makes with his cell phone camera. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

If the vaccine worked, the serum from a vaccinated child’s blood would block the poliovirus and protect the cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was an odd and wonderful sight to see this courageous woman peering into our cells and strolling around our courtyard. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Given the fact that DNA was known to occur in the chromosomes of all cells, Avery’s experiments strongly suggested that future experiments would show that all genes were composed of DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He could see it in the far corner of the tank, its dreadful tentacles with their hundreds of stinging cells, twisting and spiraling in the water. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was not until late that afternoon that Mr. Richardson checked the voice mail on his cell phone and got the news. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

As I’m sitting here in my cell, middle of the night, trying to write so nobody can see or hear me, I don’t know how to think about all that. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

At least in jail he would have been in the safety and comfort of a cell. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

They’d be after him soon, though, with their cars and their cell phones. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cell phone formerly in Ms. Lamar's possession was located at a campground in Monroe, Louisiana, shortly before authorities received an anonymous tip from two gas station employees in Shreveport. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He crawls through his cell and knocks on the wall. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I pull the solar cells off the roof and lay them on the ground. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, the prisoners changed into their uniforms and were taken to their tiled cells. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I used to drink two and three pints of wine every day, and the alcohol ate my brain cells. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, a warder rapped on my cell door at bedtime. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walter had given to other death row prisoners his fan, a dictionary, and the food items he had in his cell. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Tell me, or I shall contaminate every cell in your body. Though I do think Tirid's suggestion is fine indeed." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Since that night when he had stood alone in his cell, feeling the high magic which Max’s talk had given him, he was more than ever naked to the hot blasts of hate. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She slid her mother’s cell phone through her curtain-like waterfall of hair, studied it silently, and then announced in a bored voice, “It’s from those kids’ mom.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

To my amazement, he actually tried to open the shower cell door as I held it closed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the PR problem for cell culture was only going to get worse from there. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He saw cells dimly outlined in a faint glow. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing Grandma Knife is going back to her cell saddens me, even though she acts as if it's fine. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Then we do our experiments on them, like we find a new drug for cancer, pour it onto the cells, and see what happens.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There, she had electricity, cell phone reception, and, most important, air-conditioning. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Dae took a month off from school to care for his mother, who was sick with sickle cell. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Tommy refused to be snubbed and, cupping his ear to the carton, shouted, “What’s that? No kidding! You’re crazy about me. Inside that answer machine all those brainy cells are rooting for me to win.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Without saying hello, he set the bag on the small concrete table in Cole’s cell and sat himself down on the edge of the bed. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I had just decided to approach the next guy who was still out when an inmate called to me from his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From Saturday evening until Monday morning, inmates were locked in their cells; this was the keepers’ only time off. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spent more days in jail than the runaways he brought in, snoring in a cell next to the miscreant he had stopped hours earlier. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Demigods never carried cell phones, because their signals attracted too much monstrous attention, and none of her friends would be sitting around checking their e-mail. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A man was recording Felix and Freebie on a cell phone. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The cells in a drop of blood contain a different sort of molecular factory, the mitochondrion, which combines food with oxygen to extract useful energy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled for a moment, before the facts of her latest cell reasserted themselves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Specific receptor proteins have been proposed, with different olfactory cells carrying specific receptors for different “primary” odors, but no one has yet succeeded in identifying the receptors or naming the “primary” odors. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genes specified proteins that switched on genes that specified proteins that switched on genes—and so forth, all the way to the very first embryological cell. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Not so the person on the other end of the cell phone, who can’t see what is going on. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I think them cells is why I’m so mean,” he said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

His friendly advice on how to handle Luzan was that I actively seek out his weaknesses, expose and use them to take him apart, limb from limb, cell by cell. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

This capacity, Beadle understood, was due to the presence of enzymes within the cell—proteins that acted as master builders and could synthesize complex biological macromolecules out of basic precursor chemicals. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Glancing down, she sees her ruined cell phone, the sodden backpack that holds her laptop. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Patients were locked in poorly ventilated cell blocks with drains on the floors instead of toilets. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Researchers were breathing in the air around HeLa cells, touching them and transferring them from vial to vial, even eating lunch at lab tables beside them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I sat down in the gallery-office cell, started a new page in the logbook, and then leaned back to savor my coffee and catch up on recent events on the gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they pulled away the blindfold, Shin read the number “7” on a cell door. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It enters a chestnut effortlessly, devours the cambium cells, and positions itself for attack on the next tree before the tree has the faintest idea, chemically speaking, what hit it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Dead. A long time ago now. My brother’s the only one left. But he’s in the death cells in Bekkar Prison.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Both were about her mother’s cells, and neither was science fiction. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Outside, Chris was leaning up against the wall playing a game on his cell phone. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

After the sentencing, Commander Jameson doesn't let her soldiers take me back to my cell. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“Every day in the United States, two hundred new jail cells are constructed. I don’t want one of them to have my name on it.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I would rather have been in the cell than sitting silently with him. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

What happens in a cell to change its orderly multiplication into the wild and uncontrolled proliferation of cancer? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was so cool, he could chat with one friend on his cell phone while using his free hand to knock knuckles with a dozen more. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

If he craned his neck out as far as it could go, he could see other cells to his right and left and above him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Upon my return to Pollsmoor I was taken to a new cell on the ground floor of the prison, three floors below and in an entirely different wing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, four inmates arrived who had to be strip-frisked before being placed in a holding cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was allowed out of his cell to make phone calls, and the jailers seemed to put no time limit on them. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He crouched down in a comer of his cell, clutching his prize under his chin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

People held out their cell phones and recorded the event. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I hang up, go to my room, get Mom's cell phone, carry it to the den, and dial again. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him no, and he threw me back in the cell. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His cell phone rang but he didn't answer. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But Smith waved at me to join in a conversation he’d started with one of the few inmates left in his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was thirty-seven, more efficient than in college, tied to computers and modems and cell phones. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I really wish my cousins wouldn’t slam their heads together. They don’t have the brain cells to spare.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

One of them passed around a photo of Richard on a cell phone. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

You’ve played some trick on the dividing of my cells so my body can never be free of the small parts of Africa it consumed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later, he took a photograph of virus particles budding directly out of cells in the liver of Monkey 053. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The holding cell was cold, and I had to share it with this kid who kept crying and another who was picking on the crier. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I said, “What? They put you guys in a jail cell?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the cell was an arrangement of sand and pebbles in the shape of a cross for my mother. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Butler sprinted down the corridor into what had until recently been Captain Short’s cell. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

There was no natural light in my cell; a single bulb burned overhead twenty-four hours a day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The box holds a brand-new cell phone, and I immediately turn it on and start pushing all the buttons. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Extra sweaters? You have my cell phone number?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Poor thing, she looked very old and thin when they rescued her from a dark and narrow cell. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then he took the water and dropped it into flasks that contained living monkey cells. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see individual cells, and some of them were swollen with dark specks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, a classmate who would spend a week working with that officer told me how every morning an inmate would fix him his coffee, passing the mug out through the bars of his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In letters, Gey and some of his colleagues began referring to the cells as his “precious babies.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t give me another dose. Whatever I say, Matthias, no matter how much I beg. I don’t want to be like Nestor, like those Grisha in the cells.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

All the molecules that make up our cells—carbohydrates, proteins, and fats—contain the element carbon. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“They sold her cells all over the world! Now I’m gonna have Sister Rebecca Skloot come and talk about what she doing with my wife and them cells.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After a while, motionless in his cell, he began to feel objective about his face, and then he saw what Hatsue did. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

On Friday morning, November 17, the day after Dan Dalgard had killed all the animals in Room F, Geisbert decided to take a look at the flasks of monkey cells that were ripening. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was taken back to my cell, examined by a doctor, and I soon recovered. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tentacles were wrapped all around her, hundreds and hundreds of stinging cells clinging to her arms and legs and chest. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Take these males to the holding cells. The rest of you, leave us.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There is no record that George Gey ever visited Henrietta in the hospital, or said anything to her about her cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After midnight, White and Smith gave up and returned Burkhart to his cell. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Tiny's standing in the middle of the stage, a notebook in one hand and his cell in the other, gesticulating wildly. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s all full of her cells,” he said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But before Dell realizes what's going on, the teenager is on his cell phone, speaking to her mother in a language that he can't understand. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“This is where we keep all the cells,” he yelled over a deafening mechanical hum that made Deborah’s and Zakariyya’s hearing aids squeal. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

That genes could also be reproduced, recombined between chromosomes, and repaired by specific proteins, explained how cells and organisms manage to conserve, copy, and reshuffle genetic information across generations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

A nod when we’re finished, and we move on to the next cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monica drank a beer and pretended to be checking something important on her cell phone. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The next day, Saturday, I called Nicole’s cell, and she didn’t pick up. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

With another block behind us, the cell phones have once again disappeared into pockets and handbags. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Singleton: “The cell phone records indicate, through the investigation, that Reggie was text messaging at the time of the crash.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They studied immune suppression and cancer growth by injecting HeLa cells into immune-compromised rats, which developed malignant tumors much like Henrietta’s. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They could look at identical cells at different points in time, to study how they changed with age. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

"When do we eat? My fuel cells are depleted." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Henrietta was a black woman born of slavery and sharecropping who fled north for prosperity, only to have her cells used as tools by white scientists without her consent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

How many solar cells will I have to pilfer from the Hab's farm? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They're into clothes and shoes and jewelry and cell phones and beepers—and cars will be next. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Margulis has summarized the now considerable body of data indicating that the modern nucleated cell was made up, part by part, by the coming together of just such prokaryotic animals. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the bars we could see rows of cells in a ring around a dark courtyard—at least three stories of metal doors and metal catwalks. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Groups of five prisoners were pressed into cells measuring nine feet by seven feet; the cells were filthy, with poor lighting and worse ventilation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the rest of the day sweeping off the solar cell farm. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole animal, or ecosystem, stuck for the time being halfway along in evolution, appears to be a model for the development of cells like our own. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

CLAUDETTE: When they led Mom back, there I was in a cell. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I text Libby just as my cell phone is powering itself down—“stall, do whatever u need 2 do 2 stall, i got a callback”—but who knows if it goes through. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

—CO, can I have some soap balls to mop out my cell? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benji’s father shook his head and then pulled out his cell phone. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I reach the north corridor, I don’t go straight to the cell, but rather to the woman who stands at the end. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I call him on his cell, and then I quick call Mom because Dad says I have to. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She carries a sleek black folder of papers and a cell phone in her hand, clicking away with her thumbs. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Voxy peeks out of the top of his cell in his room, and I hold my finger to my lips. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They could not fathom its material form, its physical or chemical structure, its location within the body or inside the cell, or even its mechanism of action. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He hears a young woman somewhere in the compartment, talking to her boyfriend on a cell phone, softly laughing. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Bees live lives of organisms, tissues, cells, organelles, all at the same time. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the day before Christmas, Lieutenant Colonel Gawie Marx, the deputy commander of Polls-moor, wandered by my cell after breakfast and said quite casually, “Mandela, would you like to see the city?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being away from school and not having my cell phone, I feel like I’ve fallen right out of the world. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

It is not known how the olfactory cells are fired by an odorant. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most decent people are being sent to concentration camps, prisons and lonely cells, while the lowest of the low rule over young and old, rich and poor. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Warburg has devoted a lifetime of study to the complex processes of oxidation within the cell. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

After I'm done with that lovely routine, I go outside and collect the solar cells. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the Cold War escalated, some scientists exposed Henrietta’s cells to massive doses of radiation to study how nuclear bombs destroyed cells and find ways to reverse that damage. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When they finally got permission to go in and looked in at him in the cell, he was twisted up in a corner badly beaten and dressed in nothing but extremely soiled underwear. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I almost puked when I saw it in her Calls Made list: my father’s cell number. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Back in his cell, Bigger stood in the middle of the floor, not moving. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sails themselves were not canvas at all, but solar sheets, designed to feed electricity into the system and add to the power available already from roof skin solar cells. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

And embryogenesis attempts to capture the future: How does a single cell create a living thing that will eventually acquire its particular form? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When any of these enzymes — even a single one of them — is destroyed or weakened, the cycle of oxidation within the cell comes to a halt. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

My mom was out in the hall, arguing with the doctors in Philly on her cell phone. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

From outside his cell came the rattle of iron chains. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

All they knew was that Gey had grown their mother’s cells at Hopkins, someone somewhere was making money off of them, and that someone wasn’t related to Henrietta Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Back in the cell, Uncle wanted to know, “What did they ask you?” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, on November 2, 1953, the Minneapolis Star became the first publication to name the woman behind the HeLa cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I can’t help but laugh, and he strides out of my cell, seething. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Vincent Racaniello, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Columbia University, who once calculated that he’s grown about 800 billion HeLa cells for his own research, says that restricting HeLa cell use would be disastrous. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The most important proteins are enzymes, molecules that control the cell’s chemical reactions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the third morning, the jailer unlocked my cell and motioned for me to follow him. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The isolation cells were in our same complex, but in another wing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a cell on the ground floor, the light shifts dark shapes into a small stool, a scrawny table, and a bed made of wooden boards with no mattress or blanket. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

They grew twenty times faster than Henrietta’s normal cells, which died only a few days after Mary put them in culture. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the Tuskegee staff grew to thirty-five scientists and technicians, who produced twenty thousand tubes of HeLa—about 6 trillion cells—every week. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Exhausted by her lack of sleep, shivering from the cold that stole into the tower cell each night, feverish and famished by turns, Cersei came at last to know she must confess. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It did not include texting or talking on the cell phone in its definition of media use. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We then shook hands, and I was driven back to my solitary cell on the ground floor of Pollsmoor Prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No weapon had been found in any cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Since there’s not one delicate cell in your entire body, I think I’ll give it a go.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Never mind that cell phone use by drivers was exploding. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

On the cell phone, the explosion is soundless, but I can imagine sounds—screaming, tearing, slicing through concrete, steel, and glass. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

And they were talking about prisoners—chained, surrounded on all sides, and about to be dumped into cells. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The principal targets of physical or chemical mutagenic agents are cells that are undergoing especially active division. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The clotting had shut off blood circulation to the gut, and the cells in the gut subsequently died—that is, the intestines had died—and then the gut had filled up with blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evan was smiling politely, but Dimple could tell by the way he kept glancing at his cell phone screen that he wasn’t totally into the story. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I pull out my own cell phone and turn on my little flashlight. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Prison may have been serious, but from within it, looking out my cell window, I knew life outside prison was more interesting. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

This was a big bother for me and his cell-mate, because it meant I had to keep the bolt on the cell deadlocked all the time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rather, what we know is encoded in cells called neurons— microscopic electrochemical switching elements, typically a few hundredths of a millimeter across. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I was leaving, I saw Kathy and Eddie Daniels outside but I did not even greet them as I walked back to my cell. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s the inside of the cell house look like?” the fat kid asks. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw clusters of cells packed with bricks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, just as one mouse or one fruit fly isn’t terribly useful for research, most individual cell lines and tissue samples aren’t worth anything on their own. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The mouse darts out of our cell through a hole in the wall. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

At one point Speed and Wyche invited Gey’s former assistant, Mary Kubicek, to an event in the basement of the New Shiloh Baptist Church in Turner Station, to talk about how she grew HeLa cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It inserts these minute and stiletto-sharp mouth parts into the outer cells of leaves and evergreen needles and extracts the chlorophyll. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“We need to take him back to the holding cell, you’ll have to talk there.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

After a week the physician's assistant opened my cell. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He told Henrietta her cells would help save the lives of countless people, and she smiled. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Inmates generally began to return to their cells from programs and rec at around 10:40 or 10:45 A.M. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I see someone else—someone smaller, with a more delicate frame—enter the cell with the swoosh of a black cape. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

As he transformed his bed back into a couch, his mom’s cell chimed. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is accomplished with extraordinary precision by a change in the behavior of the chromosomes that occurs at one of the divisions producing those cells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“We’re a cell, see, and there are usually only three in a cell, but we could make ours four.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The solar cells and extra battery stayed beautifully in place while traversing eight kilometers of random terrain. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This discovery meant that if HeLa was susceptible to poliovirus, which not all cells were, it would solve the mass-production problem and make it possible to test the vaccine without millions of monkey cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And I had to talk to Sam a lot: He was chronically tardy, in everything from leaving his cell at chow time to getting back in it after a meal. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of that “phobia and ignorance,” Southam wrote, he didn’t tell patients the cells were cancerous because he didn’t want to cause any unnecessary fear. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The cellars are not secure and they use the bedrooms as cells. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He kneels beneath the cell window, closes his eyes, and prays for the soul of his neighbor. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

They ripped off their numbers and barricaded themselves in their cells. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His room was as bare as a prison cell. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve always suspected that some of the cells in there are fluffing off much of the time, and I’d like to see a little more attention and real work. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I peered into his cell later that morning, after my other inmates had all gone to their programs, I saw Delacruz dozing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, prowling, are white blood cells—leukocytes, to researchers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I became acutely aware of the enclosure’s impassable boundary all around me, the sensation of being in a jail cell; it became all the more important to get out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I reached up and kissed him, my heart pulsing in every cell of my body. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The Geys were determined to grow the first immortal human cells: a continuously dividing line of cells all descended from one original sample, cells that would constantly replenish themselves and never die. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They unlocked the cell and grabbed the yelling man, laced him in a strait-jacket, flung him onto the stretcher and carted him away. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder how many people have disappeared from these cells at Evelyn’s command. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Life...is a chemical incident,” Paul Ehrlich, the chemist, had once said, and biochemists, true to form, had begun to break open cells and characterize the constituent “living chemicals” into classes and functions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Whether I was an officer or inmate was unclear, but it suddenly dawned on me, as I sat in my cell, that I’d missed the twenty-four-hour deadline for appealing the charges against me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peek out and try to match these buildings up with the one I remember seeing on my mom's cell phone. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But since I don’t have a cell phone, Isabella and Julia have been calling the house phone. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Only when cell theory established itself in the 1830s was preformationism abandoned. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

With memories of Phelan’s bravado, and a giddy recklessness, I turned around, opened the cell door, and repeated myself with no intervening bars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This shape-acquiring ability allows proteins to execute diverse functions in cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I put the list of names from Sears into the box, and I pick up the cell phone and clear its memory. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re supposed to do a report on germ line cell mutations in fruit flies instead. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He said, “It is quite possible that from fundamental studies such as these that we will be able to learn a way by which cancer cells can be damaged or completely wiped out.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Several lawyers and ethicists have suggested to me that since there is no way to anonymize HeLa cells at this point, research on them should be covered by the Common Rule. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“We need a maid to clean out the cells. Dying men do puke out some terrible things, they do. You’re a steadfast girl. Tell your mistress we’d pay her the going rate for your services.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though partly collapsed, the Old Bear’s former seat would be warmer than the ice cells. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The only items that for sure go to both houses are my cell phone, my piano music, and my journal. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, for the first time since the Collier’s article in the fifties, the press was very interested in the woman behind those cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When Toño calls we dash to the little store, then pass the owner’s cell phone around, all the family, and we talk fast fast as if to whoosh out everything to Toño in one breath. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t picking up so I tried his cell. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The women were beaten and then thrown bodily into cells, where they were beaten again. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She hated thinking about the scary toothless lunatic’s house, but once it was in her mind, it raced around in there, bashing up against every little bulging gray cell. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Every cell in your body arises by successive cell divisions from a single cell, a fertilized egg generated by your parents. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You two stay here with Bo, while I go and have a look at our visitors. If there's trouble”—he handed Ida his cell phone—“call the police.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

And doing that would require culturing cells on an enormous, industrial scale, which no one had done before. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I touch one wall of the cell as I turn around. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And soon, HeLa cells weren’t the only ones being bought and sold for research—with media and equipment standardization, culturing became easier, and researchers began growing cells of all kinds. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then later, we had the first flat-screen, the first laptops, the first cell phones out of everybody we knew. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

After a time in solitary, I relished the company even of the insects in my cell, and found myself on the verge of initiating conversations with a cockroach. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One tiny honeycomb cell is wedged inside, leaving no room to even stand. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He blocks out the jangle of keys, the clang of cell doors opening, closing, the words, "Come with us. It is time." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Henderson pushed the cell door open and walked out past me. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were in a narrow cell where the walls dripped with damp, and there was one stone bench for furniture. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Our communal cell became a kind of convention for far-flung freedom fighters. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crowd into Cradle’s office and look for my keys—four separate rings of the big, heavy “bit” keys, which work cell doors, with center-gate, end-gate, and fire-alarm keys thrown on for good measure. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came from a cell’s genes, of course. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, standing in the Square under the tree that touched the cell window, they smiled and signaled to him—or so he imagined. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He called the molecule nuclein because it was concentrated in a cell’s nucleus. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I would wake up in the night in Velma’s tiny little apartment thinking I was in that cell in Montgomery,” she remembers. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

There Day admired old farm equipment and insisted that he wanted to see his wife’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But plenty of science was already on hold while researchers, universities, and biotech companies sued one another over ownership of various cell lines. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

To simplify considerably, helper-T cells occur in two main types, one that targets microorganisms and one that targets parasites. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When the train made a stop, I gazed out the window, watching people hustle away, clutching their briefcases, pulling their rolling suitcases, putting the cell phones up to their ears. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She crept into her mother’s room and took her cell phone from her purse. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

That case set no precedent because it settled out of court, with rights to the cells being divided between the parties involved in the lawsuit, which didn’t include the cell “donor.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You won’t be showing anyone anything, convict, except perhaps where the toilet is in your cell. Now, what do you see?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He might be in a cell, in a ditch, a thousand miles away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I called Gerald’s cell phone and asked if he could go pick up some D batteries for us. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The most important function of DNA—its capacity to transmit copies of information from cell to cell, and organism to organism—was buried in the structure. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Gene regulation—the turning on and off of genes by proteins—described the mechanism by which combinatorial complexity could be generated from the one hard copy of genetic information in a cell. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The sheriff took me to where the woman was sharing a cell with four other colored gals and two white ones. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Scientists had been trying to grow living cells since before the turn of the century, but their samples had always died. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The storeroom's also an isolation cell in drawn-out cases like mine. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

With a tiny window and no fireplace, it was more cell than room, just large enough for a pallet on the floor and a small wardrobe. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Poppy sat on a wooden stool in a cell bent over with his head in his hands. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Three guards held him while the other two ransacked the cell. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They can specify how a nerve cell communicates with another nerve cell and thus become the arbiters of normal cognition and neural development. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The deputy standing by the door made a grunting noise and held up five chubby fingers, which was the number of minutes left before he took my father back to the cell. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

No more waiting, pacing a cell, demanding answers that I won’t get from the guards. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

You drop a sample of the virus into the flask, and the virus spreads through the cells. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was also why the cells had looked swollen and fat. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a cell that is about to divide, changes of the utmost importance occur, first within the nucleus, but eventually involving the entire cell. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

My mother chose a picture of Pweto sunbathing as her cell phone wallpaper. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She ran to her cell’s door and wrapped her fingers around the bars. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They bombarded them with drugs, hoping to find one that would kill malignant cells without destroying normal ones. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She found Colonel Aureliano Buendía in the room that was used as a cell, lying on a cot with his arms spread out because his armpits were paved with sores. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He first accused a black man with a bad reputation named Isaac Dailey, but the police quickly discovered that Dailey had been in a jail cell on the night of the murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She frowned and crawled out from under the table with her cell phone in hand, then surveyed everything around her. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Slowly, she returned to the cell’s stone floor again, letting that familiar cold seep back into her bones and, with it, resignation. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It’s like when Oscar and I were on the floor of the jail cell room. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I told the story of Henrietta’s cells and what they’d done for science, my voice growing louder as the congregation yelled “Amen!” and “Hallelujah!” and “Lord have mercy!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Some hint of other drastic consequences of depriving a cell of oxygen can be seen in animal experiments on developing embryos. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh! See, and all this time I thought my mother regular cells still livin!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Many researchers, including the Geys, had been trying for years to develop the perfect culture medium—the liquid used for feeding cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He handed me a scrap of paper with a cell number written on it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deeper and deeper Harry sank into the grave, and he knew where Voldemort had been tonight, and whom he had killed in the topmost cell of Nurmengard, and why.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Basically it’s a bunch of cells that don’t look right,” Az said. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Edward pulled his cell phone from a pocket inside his jacket, looking briefly at the caller ID before answering. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It has been suggested that flagellae and cilia were once spirochetes that joined up with the other prokaryotes when nucleated cells were being pieced together. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a rounded vaulted chamber for the queen, called the royal cell. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After breakfast the following morning, two warders entered my cell and said I was wanted at the Head Office. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The cells were frozen over a hundred years ago.They can’t be as healthy as samples taken yesterday.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is one of the most common forms of life on the planet, and it often gets into cell cultures and wrecks them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few cells down, to my amazement, a young Latino inmate was out on the gallery cutting an older man’s hair with electric clippers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sure, I do. But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn’t really belong to the person that has them.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Then one of the warriors raised a cell phone to his mouth and spoke into it. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It was amazing how every cell in my body seemed to know he was coming, to long for his coming. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Still, in broad terms, the safety advocates hoped the successes with seat belts and drunk driving would provide a blueprint for addressing cell phone distraction. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the following days, Johnson watched the flasks to see if there were any changes in the monkey cells. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took up most of the tiny cell, far smaller than my chamber at Elsinore. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And when experienced cell phone users were asked how long it would take novices to learn to use the phone, they guessed thirteen minutes; in fact, it took thirty-two. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Luckily, I did come into this with one extra solar cell. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his cell phone on the bed, behind him. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She nods, so I give that some thought and finally tell her, “It’s electric. From stepping into your lane until you cross the finish line...every cell of your body is charged.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

HeLa cells are still contaminating other cultures and causing an estimated several million dollars in damage each year. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later they arrived at another cell, where Zeitoun was deposited. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“The normal cells which make up our bodies are tiny objects, five thousand of which would fit on the head of a pin,” he said, his voice a bit too loud and stilted. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A few days later, however, I was in my cell after dinner when a number of warders and a doctor arrived. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And absolutely no phone. I survived without a cell phone until after college.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But when I explained to her that the Lackses thought she was testing them for cancer, and that they were upset about scientists using the cells without their knowledge, she was shocked. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Burger was confined to a crowded cell with sixty other prisoners. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

And she still saw a distinction between her momentary lapse of judgment and focus, and what science said was a widespread and systemic problem caused by cell phone use. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Bind him properly this time and get him into an interrogation cell.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

After my drive, I set up the solar cells. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, George told a few of his closest colleagues that he thought his lab might have grown the first immortal human cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I found beautiful pieces of coral and elaborate shells, which I sometimes brought back to my cell. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After several moments, the cell door burst open and Juliet fell into the room. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun was again called out of his cell for a meeting. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“The rules don’t allow civilians in the cells.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t warn researchers when he found that their cells had been contaminated with HeLa; he just published their names, the equivalent of having a scarlet H pasted on your lab door. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She ran into the cell, gasping as her imagination supplied the pictures. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

So your liver cells have some unemployed knowledge about how to make your bone cells, and vice versa. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the usual sources of information including e-mail and cell phones were much too slow and unreliable to be of any use and there was no television to speak of. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something I can leave behind with a single solar cell. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because he needed every brain cell he could spare focused on Mr. Peckleman’s riddle. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was lying in a little cell formed by screens on either side. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cellar that had been his jail cell. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s so fun when we have away games. Last year we did makeovers on the bus, and we prank-called Coach Fuller on her cell phone from the back. That’s her over there.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The next officer could lock him in his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They threw me back in the cell laughing. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, as the standard human cell in most labs, HeLa was also being used in research that would advance the new field of human genetics. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Looking through the numbers, Hugo could see the Station Inspector’s desk, and in the corner of the office, the cage of a small jail cell that sat waiting for any criminals caught in the station. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t feel too much about the cells when I first found they was livin,” Sonny told me years later. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Kabuo moved to the door of his cell and put his eye to the opening. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I held my hand over my cell so Mom wouldn’t hear. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The guys in the cell with me, they were there for drunk driving, for domestic abuse, for petty theft. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But if the agent touched living cells, Nancy’s cells, it would come alive and begin to amplify itself. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the jailers and custodians were sympathetic, which allowed the women to pass notes from cell to cell. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And when he wouldn’t confess they put him into a cell for the rest of the two hours and when he came out he smelled like throw-up. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When the mimeographed listings of available books passed from cell to cell, I would put my number next to titles that appealed to me which weren’t already taken. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

That cry usually occasioned a dozen mirrors thrust out of cells so that inmates could get a good look at her. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How do you settle into a prison cell?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

So secret I take the cell phone outside, away from all listeners. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t sure when she first heard the new set of footsteps, only that once she did, they echoed, hard and deliberate against the stone outside her cell. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Another woman said she still believed Gey had patented the cells, then yelled, “I hope in the future this could be rectified!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even after Lysa locked him in one of her sky cells and threatened him with her moon door, he had still denied it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A button of grayish ooze collected at the bottom of the test tube—a tiny pill of dead and dying cells. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With some more abuse of the emergency Hab material, I made straps and tied the cells down. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pulls open the curtains and there is the cell house. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last he found what he was looking for: the walkie-talkie he shared with Jimmy L. The walkie-talkies were very useful since neither his nor Jimmy L’s parents let them have cell phones. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But this night I got a bottle of vodka from my stores and took it to my cell. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

With Phelan, we moved him to the door of his cell, but there progress ceased, for Massey grabbed the bars and held on like a crab. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gallery officer was standing just a few cells down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached out and touched the screen, rubbing her finger from one cell to the next. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The solar cells just aren't producing as much wattage as before. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes pilots or stewards tucked the tubes in their shirt pockets, to keep the cells at body temperature as if they were still in an incubator. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Minutes into this process, I found that of seven shower cells, only two were operable. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1902, working on grasshopper sperm and egg cells—which have particularly gigantic chromosomes—Sutton also postulated that genes were physically carried on chromosomes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

His hand shook as he hung his lantern on a hook and opened the grating over the first cell. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Joe found Islam and began spending all his time studying the Koran in his cell. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My cheeks got hot when I remembered how I’d shouted at them for not having a cell phone. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Over a barely digested lunch, the three scientists realized that this intermediate molecule had to shuttle from the cell’s nucleus, where genes were stored, to the cytoplasm, where proteins were synthesized. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

If the queen should bolt or balk, the three hags would drag her back inside, and this time they would see to it that she never left her cell. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

On Monday through Thursday, I would do stationary running in my cell in the morning for up to forty-five minutes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Living cells ordinarily stick to the bottom of a flask to form a living carpet—cells prefer to cling to something when they grow. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A museum employee stood in front of us, holding up Tamika’s cell phone. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He rocked the vial of HeLa cells back and forth in his hand as he started talking about how careful you have to be when you handle them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And HeLa cells weren’t the only ones behaving strangely. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Men in their cells could see the crowd outside and started shouting encouragement to Walter as he walked away. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Failing to obtain a satisfactory answer, he refused to leave jail, whereupon police again remanded him to his cell upon a charge of disorderly conduct. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to look at the cells in his electron microscope to try to find some visual evidence that they were infected with simian fever. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If a scientist had been asked what a gene was made of, how it accomplished its function, or where it resided within the cell, there would be few satisfactory answers. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Once fertilization is accomplished and cell division has begun, the supply of energy in the form of ATP will largely determine whether the development of the embryo will proceed to completion. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have laptops or cell phones like kids in America have today. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We went down and Mr. Bow opened the solid steel cell door. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“No one knows how to deal with this when it comes to cells today,” he said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In Noel’s blood, the cells had morphed, mysteriously, into shriveled, scythe-shaped crescents—“sickle cells,” as Irons later described them. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I had a small cell near our large one that functioned as a study, with a chair, desk, and bookshelves, where I could read and write during the day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

These cells, with bars front and rear, had dense screens installed from ceiling to knee level to keep the occupants from throwing things out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to rush down the hall and beg Dad to take me to the store this very second to get a new cell. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I mean out of prison, Jaja. Not to a different cell,” I say. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cade found an old wooden pallet and tipped it up to the bottom of the doorway so we could use it as a ladder and climb up into the cell block. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

So when Leandro moved to the capital to coordinate the cells there, I mentioned the Suarezes to him as a likely couple. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Ford sat in Windham’s shed, its tires pumped up, and with two new dry cells to make it start easily on Bat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

At a signal from our guide, the control officer remotely opened an empty cell so that we could take a look. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“None of this alters the validity of the work done with HeLa cells,” she wrote, “but it may be worth noting—for the record.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Chakrabarty’s victory opened up the possibility of patenting other living things, including genetically modified animals and cell lines, which didn’t occur naturally outside the body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Unless something could be done, he would languish on death row until he turned twenty-one and became legally old enough to take the short walk from his cell to the electric chair. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

As the movie wrapped up and the lights came on, Barack’s cell phone buzzed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Yet as fate would have it, he was the only captive who was never seen; he was abed in a tower cell, recovering from a wound. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Everything that comes alive seems to be in trade for something that dies, cell for cell. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they were strong: if just one HeLa cell landed in a culture dish, it took over, consuming all the media and filling all the space. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

From his cell Holmes also wrote a long letter to Carrie Pitezel, which he composed in a manner that shows he was aware the police were reading his mail. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They also knew that there was a string of DNA at the end of each chromosome called a telomere, which shortened a tiny bit each time a cell divided, like time ticking off a clock. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“They weren’t worthless. The gray rug cost four hundred. The blue-and-white rug, four hundred. Her necklace was seventy-five. Her bracelet was two hundred. My cell phone was three hundred fifty.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Miss Rebecca telling me about our mother cells,” Lawrence said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She started organizing information into carefully labeled folders: one about cells, another about cancer, another full of definitions of legal terms like statute of limitations and patient confidentiality. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Someone had asked me to let a keeplock out of his cell, since he had an appointment outside the block. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw rotten pockets where all the cells had popped and died, forming a liquefied spot that was packed with wall-to-wall bricks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All these monsters were just blood cells circulating through his body. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

For scientists doing research that wasn’t cell-specific, like investigating the effects of radiation on DNA, not knowing what kind of cell they were working on might not affect the outcome of their research. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My cells are no longer the pure line entities I was raised with; they are ecosystems more complex than Jamaica Bay. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My lack of a cell phone makes me an inconvenience. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

If I had a cell phone, I’d angry text her right now. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I thought of calling Phyllis, too, but her number was in my dead cell phone. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He would need to bum them eventually, no doubt, but for the nonce they were bound with iron chains inside their cells. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Owing to his confinement in the underground cell, Shin had lost much of his strength and nearly all of his endurance. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When I walked back by the cell of the stinky bug, he was handing a fresh Newport to his neighbor, who was asking him quizzically, “Hey, how’d you get these?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was just a dream,” I whisper, staring at the top of my cell. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At first, they wrote infrequent letters, but as cybercafes opened, cell phones spread, and Facebook flourished, they communicated more often. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

With few exceptions cells themselves are minute, seen only with the aid of a microscope. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

These survivors may then develop into cancer cells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He sounded like he’d just dropped his cell phone in a puddle. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun's door closed, and the guards assembled themselves at the next cell, ready for the next prisoner. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She took the cell phone from her suit pocket, flipped it open, and handed it to me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The only sounds were occasional cell phones ringing—like they were calling out to each other, as if New York had turned into a giant electronic aviary. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But it appears that the skateboarders said some of their stuff was missing, including a cell phone. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was pushing a cart of black books, and had stopped a few cells away from Zeitoun’s. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Once the photosynthetic cells had appeared, very probably counterparts of today’s blue-green algae, the future respiratory mechanism of the earth was set in place. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every time she sees them, she’ll be reminded of her father in the cage that is his jail cell. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When the stench of burned flesh that many on the row claimed they could smell during the execution wafted into his cell, Myers dissolved. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There was a reason he hadn’t spoken and it had nothing to do with gray cells working. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped the mush into flasks that contained living cells from the kidney of a monkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I patted my pockets for my cell phone to check the time. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Not long after Henrietta’s death, planning began for a HeLa factory—a massive operation that would grow to produce trillions of HeLa cells each week. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It cannot be seen as death; barring mutation, the descendants are simply the first cell, living all over again. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jail cells were constructed in tiers three high, and Fannie’s cell was on the top tier where men below could peer up at her through a grating. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

I needed a way to log the time of day and the wattage of each solar cell. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fingers trembling, he put a key into the lock of the cell. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

This was what the men of Hellgate competed for: a private cell, a blanket, clean water, a bucket for waste. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They opened his cell, handcuffed him, and shackled his legs together. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

HeLa is still one of the most commonly used cell lines in laboratories around the world. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Hsu stepped in and said, “I would like to give particular priority to those who initiated the cell lines, whom Dr. Gartler has attacked. If there is any defense, we would like to hear it.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The cell itself was not more than three paces square. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“That wouldn’t interest me very much. Doctors stay too right on the surface. They’re always talking about cells and things.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Permission to use my cell phone,” she said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The black cells are not a healthy place for a man his age. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“They jammed fifty-five Negroes in a jail cell built for four.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Holmes’s cell was furnished with a bed, a stool, and a writing table, upon which he composed his memoir. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Hickock's cell had no window; he faced a wide corridor and the facades of other cells. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We looked for a way to get inside the cell block. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

When I got back to my cell, I had all this energy and I wanted to write to you, but I couldn’t sit still. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

"Kids have it so easy these days. Nothing to worry about except video games and cell phones. When I was young..." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, as I sat at my mothers desk, filling out and stamping paperwork, my cell phone rang. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their cells grew in size, being swollen with chromosomes which doubled in number. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The technical name for this was somatic cell fusion, but some researchers called it “cell sex.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

That switch altered the folding of the hemoglobin chain: rather than twisting into its neatly articulated, clasplike structure, the mutant hemoglobin protein accumulated in stringlike clumps within red cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Since they’re not pumped up on synthetic nitrogen, the cells of organic leaves grow more slowly. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“The cells are all deadlocked,” she adds before leaving, which means that not only is the huge bar, or “brake,” in place which locks them all at once but the cells are locked individually. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Raheem and I sat quietly in the small cell, waiting for word of Stick. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Another officer pulled open the cell door and they went in on one another’s heels, the shield used to force Duncan into the back corner of the cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A 1905 State Prison Improvement Commission found the cells damp, too small, and badly ventilated, concluding, “verily, this is far worse than living in a sewer.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 5 x 109 bits of information in our encyclopaedia of life—in the nucleus of each of our cells—if written out in, say, English, would fill a thousand volumes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra felt as though it was suffocating her, a tension eating away at her very cells. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Chess reached down and gently tugged Mom’s cell phone out of Emma’s grasp. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

All it takes is one small mistake anywhere in the division process for cells to start growing out of control, he told us. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Only cells that had been transformed by a virus or a genetic mutation had the potential to become immortal. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And she was horrified by reports of a “psychic healer” who, while conducting research into whether spiritual healing could cure cancer, attempted to kill HeLa cells by a laying on of hands. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I pace in our cell in Erudite headquarters, her words echoing in my mind: My name will be Edith Prior, and there is much I am happy to forget. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But every part of me, every fiber and every nerve, is straining toward freedom, not just from this cell but from the prison of the city beyond it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The cells are arranged with two galleries, or rows, back to back on each tier. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would be missed; questions would be asked; she knew lawyers who could get her out of any cell in a matter of hours. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Common-law prisoners were used to dish out the food to us and we would return to our cells to eat it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cell becomes two, then four, and so on, and after a while the last trace is gone. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom walks him out, and before she can return to cross-examine me, I’ve escaped to my room with my cell phone. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The topmost branches of a snow-laden elm brushed against the window of the ladies’ cell. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whatever his race, each convict is a citizen of a stony village that exists within the prison’s steep, machine- gun-guarded walls—twelve gray acres of cement streets and cell blocks and workshops. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I fell down on my knees in the middle of the cell and started crying again. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Tia was there, leaning against the counter, checking her cell phone. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It would be no time at all until Cabot wasn’t changing the world, but sitting alone in a jail cell with a bologna sandwich and a lidless toilet. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Most cervical cancers are carcinomas, which grow from the epithelial cells that cover the cervix and protect its surface. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They thus appear as agents potentially capable of blocking the whole process of energy production and depriving the cells of utilizable oxygen. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

How could he choose sitting in a tiny cell over being in a room with us. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

After all, most people would agree that food is more important than a new cell phone or cable TV or name-brand sneakers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“But remember, if you hurt the sergeant, you have no way out of that cell. The doors are locked from the outside.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They left, dropping the cross just inside the cell door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled his cell out of his pocket, punched in a couple numbers, held it to his ear. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The cops took us to the police station and threw us in a cell and pulled us out one by one for questioning. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I had forgotten the cell number, but I knew W-29. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Curiously, given how high-tech the cars had become, and the pre-ponderance of cell phones, not a single state at that time banned texting and driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Those cells in my lab have to be hers,” he said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Within minutes my comrades were taken away, leaving me in the cell by myself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

An inmate was standing outside the shower cell I had unlocked for the inmate who had a visit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 2007, a survey by Nationwide Insurance found that 73 percent of people reported talking on a cell phone while driving, with teen drivers showing the highest use of any demographic. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

If anyone’s still out, I write down his cell number, and”— Smith made a key-turning motion with his hand—“I lock ’em in.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They live sequestered in a forbidden city in the deep interior, in the nucleus of the cell. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, the other four men were removed from the cell, and Zeitoun and Nasser were alone again. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In one patient, Henrietta’s cancer cells metastasized to her lymph nodes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A cell phone had been found in the women’s restroom and could be retrieved on the lower level. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Each member of the family in his own cell of consciousness, each making his own patchwork quilt of reality—collecting fragments of experience here, pieces of information there. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since some of the DNA present in Henrietta’s cells is also present in her children, it’s possible to argue that by doing research on HeLa, scientists are also doing research on the Lacks children. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A 30 kph windstorm some time later would have been strong enough to clean the solar cells but not strong enough to carry sand. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, I am thinking vegetarian might be a good thing for me to consider becoming since I would not mind parting company with some of my fat cells. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

They pulled her down the steps and shoved her into a cell. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even though Erlan’s mom was right outside on her cell phone. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

He heard the thunder of footsteps from the arena, cresting like a wave as people burst into the passageway outside his cell. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Jule saw the cell number and used her general American accent. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

These factories exist in plant and animal cells today but may once themselves have been free-living cells. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d started to put gas in the mower when I remembered my cell phone. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

“CO, get away from my cell,” he’d yell when I walked by. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll barely have a family since I don’t know their cell phone numbers, just their home line. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I turned around and, frowning, stood back in front of his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whittaker came to the cell and threatened to gag the women if they weren’t quiet. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

On those occasions, we were ordered to stand at attention at the grille of our cells and hold up our prison cards as he walked by. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m considering giving up when the cell house door squeaks open again and Officer Trixie and the warden appear. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He acted as though he hadn’t heard, grabbed a towel from his cell, and strode quickly down the gallery to the shower stall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he came into our home, he immediately fixated on the house as a monastery, the bathroom as the most sacred monastic cell, and my mom as the Abbess. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I wished I had my own cell phone, but my mother probably would have taken that away from me, too. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

After lashing the cells in place, I took a little drive. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If it were one of your sons in this cell, wouldn't his brothers do as much for him?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The doorway we’d come through must have been some kind of receiving entrance for the lower floor of the cell block. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Amelia’s mom walks with her cell phone held out, determined to document everything in pictures. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Several of these were in consecutive cells, which concentrated the bad vibe. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help but think she wouldn’t get in so much trouble at work if she and I had cell phones. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

My cell had no bars, no windows, not even a door. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t speak another word till Mr. Gaston opened the cell door about a half hour later. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At any rate, he paused, and then threw the meat into the cell before saying, “Very well. You come with me.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The egg yolk would be the cell’s nucleus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned the big cell key in more than thirty locks and finished before Smith; he was stopping at several cells to say good morning, I noticed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Huh. I guess cell phones are good for something.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The soldiers drag me out of my cell. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

We were each given individual cells on either side of a long corridor, with half the cells facing the courtyard. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the mites have completed their development only the outer layer of cells remains. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

His cell smelled so bad that guards refused to step inside. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Then I pull the cell phone loose from the charger wire, flop down on my bed, and go to work. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she saw the dark blobs in the cells—the shadows that did not belong there. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our first order of business was to take individual cells off nighttime deadlock for the morning chow run. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had wanted to record a cell phone video to document our feelings about our experience that day. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

"A man does not choose his companions in the black cells," the handsome one with the red-and-white hair said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Before I had returned to my cell, I reminded him of our complaint that African prisoners did not receive bread. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Please take Lord Janos to the Wall—” —and confine him to an ice cell, he might have said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Christoph reached into the freezer behind him, grabbed another vial of HeLa cells, and held it out to Deborah, his eyes soft. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

His cell was smaller, colder, than the cell in Manchester and his cellmate, another Nigerian, told him that he was not going to allow himself to be deported. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She sat down on the bed and said, “I want to go to research labs and seminars to learn what my mother cells did, talk to people that been cured of cancer.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She pointed to her cell phone and shushed us. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

This book very elegantly propounded the belief that genes were the key components of living cells and that, to understand what life is, we must know how genes act. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“Then call your other friends, Chris,” he said, reaching over for his cell phone. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

If we went to almost any cell culture lab in the world and opened its freezers, he told us, we’d probably find millions —if not billions —of Henrietta’s cells in small vials on ice. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Though forbidden, living contraband kept finding its way into cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah knew her mother’s cells had grown like the Blob until there were so many of them they could wrap around the Earth several times. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Cytoplasm will flow easily from one to the other, the nuclei will combine, and it will become, for a time anyway, a single cell with two complete, alien genomes, ready to dance, ready to multiply. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat on the floor of her cell. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The cells below Riverrun were dark and damp . . . and these days crowded as well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Cancer may sometimes require the complementary action of two chemicals, one of which sensitizes the cell or tissue so that it may later, under the action of another or promoting agent, develop true malignancy. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The authorities also moved some young political prisoners from the PAC into the cells opposite ours. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about Yule May, sitting in a jail cell writing this letter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A reporter friend called my cell phone and told me the news, saying, “Don’t go to D.C., it’s not safe.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A cell does this, and so do the organelles inside. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using only my right hand, I brush, splash water on my face, and fumble-strip down to my underwear, leave my clothes in a pile on the floor, and climb into bed, cell phone in hand. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

He told his guests to remove their cell phone batteries, to ensure the phones’ signals could not be tracked. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He would become known as a vigilante who published “HeLa Hit Lists” in Science, listing any contaminated lines he found, along with the names of researchers who’d given him the cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She helped me get it off and hooked me up to Philip and then finally I took my cell from Mom and said, “Hey, Kaitlyn.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

When June visits me again the next morning, even she looks shocked—if just for a second—at my figure, slumped against one wall of my cell. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“My yob involves locking more cells than just yours.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not multiplying or doing anything, since the monkey’s cells were dead. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last key on the chain opened the lock, and Nok swung out of the cell, tumbling onto the ground at Pong's feet. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I know most people my age are all about the texts, but as someone without a cell phone, I have to take what I can get. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She’d had to connect her laptop to her cell phone but kept losing reception. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

And the media didn’t seem to notice, until news hit that the Russian cells had been contaminated by American ones. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If anything, the cell phone made me more aware of my loneliness. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The fact is that you could be anywhere on a cell phone and it shouldn’t be important where you are. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s crammed full of molecules and vessels endlessly shuttling enzymes and sugars from one part of the cell to another, pumping water, nutrients, and oxygen in and out of the cell. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, so let my old lady cells talk to you and leave me alone,” he snapped. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When I arrived, he was speaking through the screen of a high-security cell to a tiny Dominican named Colon, who had decorated the cell with a carpet of shredded pieces of magazine. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only is it the big kind that isn’t a cell phone, but it’s got a loopy spiral cord that’s connected to the wall. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

But normal human cells —either in culture or in the human body—can’t grow indefinitely like cancer cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It then turned out that the plug was defective, and the cell stank abominably for hours afterwards. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It seemed to be talking to someone inside a cell on the second floor. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She furtively passed him the small papyrus roll that the nurse had brought back from her clandestine visit to Julius’s cell. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

But doing this would require millions of neutralization tests, which involved mixing blood serum from newly vaccinated children with live poliovirus and cells in culture. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I walked with the colonel through the fifteen locked metal doors between my cell and the entrance, and when we emerged, I found his car waiting for us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My room was as small as a monk’s cell. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In my haste to leave the house, I’d left my cell phone in my room. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Eventually von Linden took possession of my recipe cards, my chains were removed, and I was thrown back into my cell. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

There were older, hard-time prisoners close to parole, and their detail was to come and clean the cells and circulate books and magazines for you to read. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Bull had started down the slope now, his boards out, and he was descending, alive, alive, adrenaline reinforcing every platelet, every blood cell, and his mind radiating with its response to danger. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jail cells smelled with the breath of drunk people. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The virus had entered their bloodstreams and multiplied in their cells. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kidneys become jammed with blood clots and dead cells, and cease functioning. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

ONE NIGHT, toward the end of May, a warder came to my cell and ordered me to pack my things. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had forty-five minutes to search the high-security cells, meet back at the landing, and get to the basement. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

At that point, there were many obstacles to growing cells successfully. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They're snapping pictures of the crowd with their cell phones raised high over their heads. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

After we finished that unsettling meeting, I went to see Walter, who was also at the courthouse in one of the holding cells. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was leaning against the wall in a robe, talking on a cell phone, even though you weren’t supposed to use cell phones in the hospital. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it came out of my mouth, I was ashamed that it was mixed with any of Dad’s cells that I might have inhaled when we went to visit Ground Zero. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You probably don’t know this, but it’s not just granny folklore. One published study shows that the soup inhibits the movement of neutrophils, the most common type of white blood cell that defends against infection.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

I felt like a convict in an old prison movie, returning to my cell each night to tunnel through the wall with a teaspoon. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

To complete one, you stopped at each cell on a gallery and said, for example, “L-3, where are you going this afternoon?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was locked in a cell by myself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Concerned that the boy might get hurt if released, the doctor sat him down in a holding cell and left to telephone his mother. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if I would actually have the nerve to call my dad with it in the morning and confess I’d “lost” my cell phone. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I thought that right up until the moment the cell door clanged shut behind me and the guard yelled, “Lights out!” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“That’s the thing about the cell house library,” I say, “it’s a high-risk operation.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was widely known, Rifkin pointed out, that HeLa was “an extraordinarily virulent and infectious line of cells” that could contaminate other cultures. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They’d come from biotech companies and academia; they’d traveled from New York, England, the Netherlands, Alaska, Japan, and everywhere between to discuss the future of cell culture. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It sounded like she was on a cell phone. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I have to warn them before it’s too late, but when I take out my cell phone, the battery is dead. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

But if cells were contaminated or mislabeled in research that was cell-specific —as much research was —the results would be worthless. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They get all excited, tell me stuff like how her cells helped make my blood pressure medicines and antidepression pills and how all this important stuff in science happen cause of her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Unlike most everyone else on earth, from the very first cells of us, we were together, we came here together. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Almost always, I had to stop at the cell of Larson. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bricks, or crystals, first appear near the center of the cell and then migrate toward the surface. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called Mom’s cell phone and got her voice mail. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I see the footage of me sitting in my cell. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But mostly she wrote diary entries about what was happening: going on with pain . . . we should know what’s going on with her cells from all of them that have her cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He knew that soon fife would be altered forever one way or another, but nothing in any cell of his being allowed him to back away. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I lay there fully dressed under the cell’s bare globe, trembling. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is really no such creature as a single individual; he has no more life of his own than a cast-off cell marooned from the surface of your skin. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I managed to see Winnie, who beamed when she saw me and seemed as happy as one could be in a bare police cell. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A cell is a cell. Some under easterly Rock make this one seem a sunlit garden. One day perhaps I'll show them to you." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A disembodied voice says, "To prevent interruptions of the fabulousness, please turn off your cell phones." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

She was the first and only woman ever to grace our cells. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She already has her cell phone out; it’s blinking at her side. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

As Gey flew from one lab to another, demonstrating his culturing techniques and helping to set up new laboratories, he always flew with tubes of Henrietta’s cells in his breast pocket. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I just couldn’t take it. My speech is coming back a little better—I almost had two strokes in two weeks cause of all that stuff with my mother cells.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ah, I thought, touching the place above my heart where I did not yet know the cells were multiplying like crazy. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stood on the flats, ground-floor corridors that encircle the tiers of cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t collect garbage tax or cell phone storage fees from Stephen. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Luma pulled out her cell phone and called the bus driver to see what was going on. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Night poured into the cell in a black, chilly wave. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Now he was visibly upset and began pacing in his cell. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Still other pesticides will be added as we include those whose action on living tissues or cells may be considered an indirect cause of malignancy. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Here, in this microcosm, we must look for those factors that somehow shift the marvelously functioning mechanisms of the cell out of their normal patterns. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

While writing that scene, I knew that it was unlikely that so many people would ever be allowed to come into a murderer’s cell. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been days since Evelyn mastered the chaos in the lobby of Erudite headquarters with a few short commands and had all the prisoners hustled away to cells on the third floor. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

All sorts of inmates liked to lean on the bars of R-29 cell and talk, talk, talk. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he called his mother on her cell and she told him to load up the cooking stuff from their garage. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Porters mopping the floor and new arrivals moving into empty cells were the only ones who were supposed to be out of their cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re not supposed to use cell phones in school, but I’d broken so many rules this week, what was one more? Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before I pushed him down the hall and into the guardhouse, I covered Curzon with the filthy blanket I’d stolen from the first cell. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The addition of the ion was critical: with the solution supplemented with magnesium, the ribosome remained glued together, and Brenner and Jacob finally purified a minuscule amount of the messenger molecule out of bacterial cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Jacqueline said nothing as she carefully walked around the women who sat like statues in different corners of the cell. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Kabuo Miyamoto, the accused man, had not heard the wind at all from his cell, not even a murmur of it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When a brick touches the inner surface of the cell wall, it breaks apart into hundreds of individual viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We exchange good-byes, and John's two guards grab his arms to lead him out of my cell and back into his own. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

About ten o’clock there was a sound of footsteps in the corridor, and a jingling of keys, and the door of the cell was opened. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Such has been America’s attitude toward these boys that if one is picked up and confronted in a police cell with ten white cops, he is intimidated almost to the point of confessing anything. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I really reject and resent the fact that people are saying that cell phone usage and drunk driving are the same,” he said. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We’d taken an inmate’s junk outside his cell, piled it on the flats, and were searching the remaining contents one piece at a time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some are passed on to HLAs, special molecules that transport the snippets to the surface of the cell. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Talking back in school. Carrying a cell phone. Refusing to go to the office.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I was debating whether to follow up on this when I heard the phone ringing inside the cell used by R-and-W officers as an office. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My centrioles, basal bodies, and probably a good many other more obscure tiny beings at work inside my cells, each with its own special genome, are as foreign, and as essential, as aphids in anthills. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote: As I held the flask, I concentrated on the picture I’d formed in my mind of the cells, visualizing a disturbance in the cell fields and the cells blowing up. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Gartler said that didn’t matter—the cells didn’t have to be thawed to be tested. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The bigger the vat of medium, the more the cells grew. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The owner of Microbiological Associates —a military man named Samuel Reader—knew nothing about science, but his business partner, Monroe Vincent, was a researcher who understood the potential market for cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes for a second, allowing Fred to lead me back to the brig and my holding cell and the terrible aloneness that waits for me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Oh, well...chills, fever, cramps. Seizures. Toes, fingers, nose, and lips turn black because the cells die. And you’d likely spit blood.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

When I started to detail the problems with our cells, he interjected that the conditions in backward American prisons were far worse than Robben Island, which was a paradise by comparison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted his stubby number-2 yellow pencil and began to trace the route to a damsel imprisoned in a castle cell in the puzzle’s center. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Did she know how important her cells were? Did she have any children?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was anxious to check up on the button of dead monkey cells that he had harvested from the little flask just before he had gone hunting. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the girl’s magic, infused into her very cells, continued to grow. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Working with his hands in the rubber gloves protruding into the cabinets, Gene Johnson took a little bit of the boy’s blood serum and dropped it into flasks that contained living cells from a monkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When all is done, a single enzyme molecule has been produced, which then goes about ordering one particular aspect of the chemistry of the cell. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After suiting up, I went out to the rover and dragged the solar cells off the roof. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have these chemicals in your brain that carry messages from each brain cell to the next brain cell. They’re called neurotransmitters. And one of them is serotonin.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Manolo tells how that Thursday they were taken out of their cell and marched down the hall. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was highly unusual; the commanding officer did not generally pay calls on prisoners in their cells. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did tell Lilian that I thought she should discuss the issue with the women themselves before making a decision, and escorted her down to the cells where she could poll the prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a cell phone upstairs, but the rebels have taken out the networks.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure that she—like most of us—would be shocked to hear that there are trillions more of her cells growing in laboratories now than there ever were in her body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He takes one look at my face and pulls out his cell phone again. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“HeLa cells were one of the most important things that happened to medicine in the last hundred years,” Defier said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then back in my cell I would sit on the edge of my bunk with my journal spread open across my knees and try to capture their stories with my own words. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

My father rushed up behind me and handed me his cell phone. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

A few days later I was put in a cell by myself, where I slept on wooden boards suspended from the wall. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Using his cell phone, he talked to Kathy throughout the day. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Once everyone was back in their cells, he terminated rec in the gym and the yard for good measure. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It sucks all the chemicals and cells outside so we don’t have to breathe them in.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Feliciano and I were given a third cell, that of a young, thin black man, Lincoln George. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doing millions of neutralization tests using monkey cells would cost millions of dollars. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The cell enlarges, begins making new DNA at a great rate, and turns into what is termed, appropriately, a blast. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But most cells died quickly, and the few that survived hardly grew at all. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the distance, I saw someone—I assumed it was Ema—flashing the light on her cell phone. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

HeLa cells, it turned out, weren’t picky—they didn’t need a glass surface in order to grow. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was my nerves, but his office had the closed-in feeling of a jail cell, metal jalousies at the windows and fluorescence the only light. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One woman stood up and said, “Them cells cured me of my cancer, if I got cells that can help somebody like her cells help me, I say take em!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Martin Luther King, Jr., had been confined to a Birmingham, Alabama, jail cell since Good Friday, April 12, arrested in a fierce effort to integrate that city’s lunch counters and other facilities. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Phelan lifted him into the air and slammed him against the cell’s metal wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prospect of scrubbing a mission because a solar cell got dirty was unacceptable. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ascent to the Moon landing was predicated on the belief that each cell in the body of the space program was both individually superb and seamlessly connected to the cells around it. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Take all the time you need,” she said, and nodded toward the cell on the end table. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Keeps coming to the cell looking for him. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They led us out of the cell and upstairs. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hans Krebs, the biochemist, was breaking open cells to identify their constituent chemical components. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Bobby gave the authorities the address of his hotel and his cell phone number and asked if they could call him when the reconstructed passport was ready. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Victoria’s eyes widened, and she whipped out her cell phone and hid behind it, even though her tall red hair gave her away. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It grew from a sliver of her tumor, which was a cluster of cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Abed, the walls pressed close and the ceiling hung heavy above him; abed, the room was his cell, and Winterfell his prison. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He’s standing at the window in his socks, holding Pigeon’s cell phone up to his ear with one hand. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The room buzzed with excitement as everyone talked about cell cloning and hybrids, mapping human genes, and using cultures to cure cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But now every cell of me was married to Nathan’s plan. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours later, as the castle slept, three of them paid a call on his cell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, fats are very widely distributed in the organs and tissues of the whole body, even being constituents of cell membranes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I hold my breath, but he brushes past me, returning to his cell. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was being mentioned all over the cell block by night that Satan didn’t eat pork. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that time, a meeting of all prisoners in the single cells was something that was expressly forbidden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below, in the cells, corridors, and cages under the innocently raked sand, all was purposeful bustle and organized activity. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Inmates in neighboring cells snickered at this and imitated Brereton in low tones. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her grandfather steps into the room, cuffs his cell phone, and says, “It’s your mom.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If it didn’t work, the virus would infect the cells, causing damage scientists could see using a microscope. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Hungry inmates emerged up and down the gallery, closing the cell gates behind them in a chorus of metal-on-metal thumps. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think it’s a byproduct of cell phones: people—girls and moms especially—want to nail you down in physical space. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

A cell phone went off in his pocket. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They just made copies of her cells. I promise.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They played the film at high speed so they could watch cell division on the screen in one smooth motion, like a story unfolding in a flip book. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They quickly found that of ten cell lines thought to be from nine different species—including dog, pig, and duck—all but one were actually from primates. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But what excited scientists most was that freezing gave them a means to suspend cells in various states of being. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But first I have to figure out how to get out of this cell. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The rest of us were locked up in cells in Pretoria Local away from all the other prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plant cells today have tiny molecular factories, called chloroplasts, which are in charge of photosynthesis—the conversion of sunlight, water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and oxygen. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They let us out in the morning, and we have no choice but to walk by the cell where it happened if we want to get outside. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Moore had abandoned his cells, they were no longer a product of his body, the ruling said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

To her right were more old cells, but light poured into the tunnel from staggered archways on the left, and through them she glimpsed a roaring, rowdy crowd. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As his health improved, guards began to call him out of the cell. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But no sooner had I unlocked one of the cells and turned the corner than a gym porter who shouldn’t have been there tried to beat me to it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Otrera made sure her followers are guarding the cells. I’m sorry, my queen.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Hey,” said an officer on the flats, who could see Henderson and knew he was supposed to be in his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish we were alone,” I say as I back out of the cell. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They probably think by what our mother cells had did that we well off. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She rummaged through her purse and handed me her cell phone. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Since nobody can have cell phones and stuff, the kids here actually talk to each other. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Slowly it grew: four stories; eight hundred cells, 476 feet long. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Nina suspected that the glass she was peering through was mirrored on the other side, so that a Heartrender in the cell wouldn’t be able to locate a target. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Plus she just saw her mother’s cells for the first time,” I told him. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He occupied a cell that measured nine by fourteen feet, with a narrow barred window high in its outer wall and a single electric lamp, which guards extinguished at nine o’clock each night. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But mostly he tried to move on from HeLa, focusing instead on growing normal and cancerous cells from the same patient, so he could compare them to each other. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Scientists cut HeLa cells in half to show that cells could live on after their nuclei had been removed, and used them to develop methods for injecting substances into cells without destroying them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It is important to remember, therefore, that the fat-soluble insecticides become stored in individual cells, where they are in position to interfere with the most vital and necessary functions of oxidation and energy production. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I pressed the buttons on the cell phone and handed it to Bran. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Words are the cells of language, moving the great body, on legs. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was brought down a long concrete hallway and then directed into a cell. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dacus walked into the cell block and faced Junior Palmer nose to nose. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dust storms reduce the effectiveness of solar cells. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no record of Hopkins and Gey accepting money for HeLa cells, but many for-profit cell banks and biotech companies have. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Scientists are using technology her cells helped develop to grow other people’s corneas.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Except he wasn’t in a cell, he was chained to a chair, so what the hell was going on? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Each cell was identical: four feet wide, about eight feet deep, concrete and steel toilet, sink, steel-slatted bunk beds. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

In consequence, every living cell has a consistent, low level of C14—they are all very slightly radioactive, a phenomenon that Libby first observed empirically. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s fairly rare that somebody is going to admit they were talking on a cell phone,” says Mr. Windsor. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dragged to an interrogation cell where the Martials will do who-knows-what to him. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

One of the scientists who consulted for Reader was Leonard Hayflick, arguably the most famous early cell culturist left in the field today. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Now we leam Papa suffered a heart attack in his cell the Wednesday after he was arrested, but it wasn’t till the following Monday that he was allowed to see a doctor. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It also meant researchers could store cells between experiments without worrying about keeping them fed and sterile. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The magistrate mumbled something about having a son my age, pulled me out of my dark jail cell after just two days, and marched me down to the orphanage. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“You heard me. Or did inhaling that polish kill whatever helpless brain cells you had left?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

When Little Walder pulled him up and Big Walder waved the torch at him to herd him from the cell, he went along as docile as a dog. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His cell might be at the heart of the building, or against its outer wall; it might be ten floors below ground, or thirty above it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He grabbed two bars on our cell door and bent them wide enough for even a Cyclops to slip through. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The commanding officer made a surprise visit to Kathy’s cell, asked for a book, and plunked it on his desk. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, in a muscle cell, energy to contract is gained when a terminal phosphate group is transferred to the contracting muscle. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Obinze shrugged and said nothing to him; there was no need for courtesies simply because they shared a cell. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We used to leave notes on smokers’ doorsteps saying, “Excuse me, but did you know your lung cells are shriveling up?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The cloud is getting bigger; it’s darkening, filling up my spirit and cell. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

John Hopkin Hospital and all other places, that has my mother cells, don’t give her Nothing. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I'm guessing the batteries on her cell phone give out pretty soon. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They no longer talk about suing Johns Hopkins, though Lawrence and Zakariyya still believe they’re owed a share of the profits from HeLa cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They were clogging up the cells now, howling gang chants and hurling fireballs at each other. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Chief paused to stare at one of his ringing cell phones—four were placed on the table next to him—and then ignored it and leaned back on the sofa. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When she left home, only the wealthy had cell phones, all the numbers started with 090, and girls wanted to date 090 men. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He opened the metal cell in the corner, and they threw Hugo inside. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Researchers had long believed that human cells contained forty- eight chromosomes, the threads of DNA inside cells that contain all of our genetic information. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Sublethal levels of the chemical halt cell division in the gonads. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Half-bloods try not to use cell phones if we can avoid it, because broadcasting our voices is like sending up a flare to the monsters: Here I am! The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

That many particles of airborne Ebola could easily hatch out of a single cell. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jaja is back in his old cell, so crowded that some people have to stand so that others can he down. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She knew it was unlikely, and yet...she could kill him in his cell, put him in a deep, painless sleep, and simply stop his heart. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Everyone is restless and chatting, signing one another’s yearbooks, paper airplanes soaring through the back rows, cell phones buzzing on tabletops. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I crawl through Voxy’s honeycomb cell and hold my breath as I slip the rolled baseball card into the tiny hole. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But in his initial excitement, Gey had given all of the original HeLa cells to other researchers and kept none for himself. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The cells were different, too, with doors of solid steel instead of iron bars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There are sounds of inmates yelling from cell to cell: much of it is obscene. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

After cleaning the solar cells, I have to check the whole solar array to make sure the storm didn't hurt it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Henrietta’s cells weren’t merely surviving, they were growing with mythological intensity. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They fused HeLa cells with mouse cells and created the first human-animal hybrids —cells that contained equal amounts of DNA from Henrietta and a mouse. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Little flashes of light blinked out as the spirits sped through his blood vessels and entrails, crisscrossing synapses and cell membranes. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

A baker’s oven in the ruins of the shop like a grim totem, human remains bent behind the steel of a jail cell. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Though the prison cells were only one floor above them, it took four staircases to get there. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

To understand how chemicals can alter the course of heredity, we must first watch the basic drama of life as it is played on the stage of the living cell. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He came up to the barred door of her cell and looked in. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just a second. I got to have a word with my friends,” said Henderson, walking a few cells down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shadow lunged forward and grabbed her wrist, and every cell in Sierra’s body caught fire at the same time. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

People came up to Deborah with tears in their eyes and told her that her mother’s cells had helped them overcome cancer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Jasmine had a blood disease since birth—sickle cell anemia—which can affect almost every part of the body. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Everywhere you turned there were college students in T-shirts, signing people up for sickle cell anemia testing and voter registration. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened one and shoved Fred into what turned out to be a very cramped, very dark prison cell. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Wilfrido checked his coif and slithered out of the cell like the snake he was. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

All held cell phones to their ears or extended in front of them while they tapped at some app or another. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

We scrambled down the stairs, through a corridor, and past a guard’s station—out into another block of prison cells. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Our understanding of genes has reached such a level of sophistication and depth that we are no longer studying and altering genes in test tubes, but in their native context in human cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

An intrinsic part of this story would be to describe how these cells, originally obtained from Henrietta Lakes, are being grown and used for the benefit of mankind. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

On this gallery, the lock mechanism was missing from the shower cell door. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once I get set up at the MAV, my solar cells and batteries will be in a fixed position. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

An alarming number of cases came to our office involving prisoners who had been found dead in their cells. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Of the sixty-some inmates who lived on the gallery, fifty must have been out of their cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s no way of knowing exactly how many of Henrietta’s cells are alive today. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Just like you did when Dr. Cable used to bring you by my cell?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

His hunch was that when those deactivated chicken cells fused with HeLa, something inside HeLa would essentially turn the chicken cell back on. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In this way each new cell will contain a complete set of chromosomes, and all the genetic information encoded within them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And the girls were still checking the reflection of their feces in their cell phone screens, powdering their cheeks, and buttering their lips. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Kabuo sat in his prison cell now and examined his reflection carefully. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Outside the narrow window of my convent cell, leaves of linden and oak turned gold and brown and red and fell to the ground with every gust of wind. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

This made it possible to send cells around the world using the already-standardized method for shipping frozen foods and frozen sperm for breeding cattle. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was dirty and annoyed by the time I reached prison, and my irritation was aggravated by the fact that I was put in a single cell with this fellow. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a cell phone, sunglasses, and an umbrella. No book.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

On Long Island in 1997, an inmate who annoyed his guards by calling out for methadone died of a ruptured spleen after two of them beat him in his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to sleep well on the hard cot and to feel at home in the little cell. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

If our buttons were undone, our hats unremoved, or our cells untidy, we were charged with a violation of the prison code and punished with either solitary confinement or the loss of meals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the energy of ATP is used in the mitochondrion but most of it is immediately dispatched into the cell to provide power for other activities. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Like viruses, they simply take over the molecular machinery of a much larger, well-functioning cell and change it from a factory for making more cells into a factory for making more viroids. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I went back to my cell and fell asleep. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I excuse myself to the locker room to check my cell phone, and there are texts Text Messages from Mom, Part Two 5:47 Dad’s having complications. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Patenting cell lines is standard today, but it was unheard of in the fifties; regardless, it seems unlikely that Gey would have patented HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A few moments before the trial, a guard came to his cell and left a paper. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since I'm stuck here for the day anyway, I'll leave the solar cells out. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gey took any cells he could get his hands on—he called himself “the world’s most famous vulture, feeding on human specimens almost constantly.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Teresa?” he finally asked through the barred window of the lightless cell. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The accused man himself was set free immediately and walked out of his cell without leg irons or handcuffs; standing just outside its door, he kissed his wife for a long time. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The warder balked at touching trousers worn by a black man, and finally the commanding officer himself came to my cell to pick them up. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger rose and looked vacantly round the cell. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jeffrey had been diagnosed with ALL, which stands for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a form of blood cancer in which certain types of white blood cells become deformed and multiply rapidly. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The remaining inmates entered their cells, and the gallery was clear. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning Mr. Bow took me down to the hole, which was a corridor of isolation cells under the hospital wing, when he was doing basic medical rounds. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

If I had a cell phone, photos of this would be all over Instagram. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It then begins dividing, replicating itself into a new colony of identical cells, all labeled with the same receptor, primed with the same question. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took his knife and his sword and told him he was not to ieave his cell until the high officers met to decide what was to be done with him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When it’s time for Sam to go home, she takes her cell phone out and calls her grandfather to let him know she’s on her way. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I can call,” I said, flipping open the emergency family cell phone my mom had given me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The mobile companies concentrated their cell phone sites along highways, hoping to capture business from bored motorists. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He thought he would like to inspect one of these false-ceil- inged cells to see how it worked, but this was not the time. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then quiet for a few minutes, and then the cell closed shut again. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

"Come to think on it, I'm not hungry after all," he declared, retreating to the comer of his cell. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

High walls topped with searchlights enclosed his cell block; guards with machine guns patrolled the perimeter. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But then, a cell phone would probably be yet another reason for Mr. Moore to accuse Mamá of neglecting her work. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never been in there,” I say, “but my dad says the cells are like cages. Each one has a toilet, a sink, a bed and a man.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I wanted those people in that cell to elicit a certain important emotional response from Bigger. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mom talks about how she couldn’t even have imagined cell phones when she was a kid and now everyone has them. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

In my cell, I hear her fierce lawyer-talk, demanding my release. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Within days of Badenhorst’s appointment, our cells were raided and searched; books and papers were confiscated; meals were suspended without warning; and men were jostled on the way to the quarry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained the concept of cells as best he could, told them about the media reports that had already appeared about HeLa, and promised he’d send them copies to read. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And he ducked back out of the frame.“Our security guards will continue holding your cell phones,” said Dr. Zinchenko. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

It has been shown experimentally to disturb the basic physiological process of respiration in the cell, and to imitate X-rays in damaging the chromosomes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She leads me to a blank metal door with 308A on it—I wonder what it was used for when our city didn’t require so many cells. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He simply lay or sat, saying nothing, not noticing when anyone entered or left his cell. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They assured the public that they were just creating cells, not “trying to produce centaurs.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

This would be done one cell at a time and one inmate at a time. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he didn’t chase after us, he just stood there with his cell phone pinned against his ear, probably calling the cops. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

"See our lord of Lannister to a tower cell, and bring him meat and mead." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Out of sight, Francis Gary Powers languished in a small cell measuring eight by fifteen feet, deep inside Lubyanka Prison in central Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One man is lucky: he happens to have HLAs that can lock onto and carry pieces of all ten variants to the cell surface. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Foul-smelling brown ooze crept across the floor of the cell, soaking into the straw. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Those who accept are assigned a guard who, as he leads the tourist along the iron walkway fronting the death cells, is likely to identify the condemned with what he must consider comic formality. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when they reached the cell, he told Turn and the Red Lamb to wait outside whilst he went in to tell the Domish that the prince’s agony was over. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I shivered again and pulled my cloak tight, then turned my back to the graves and counted the windows, two, three, four, until I came to the window I hoped led to Curzon’s cell. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time in a cell will do that to a kid. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Kluck is on her cell phone about some piece of kitchen equipment that was supposed to arrive this week. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I first learned about HeLa cells and the woman behind them in 1988, thirty-seven years after her death, when I was sixteen and sitting in a community college biology class. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For two days, Shin managed to crawl around in his cell and to eat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I heard Ma on her cell phone, crying, telling Auntie Rita he might have to go to the hospital. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tuesday morning's newspaper articles contained reports of angry cries to drag Guiteau from his cell and hang him on the spot. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dylan is trying, over and over, to call on his cell even though he knows there’s no signal. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun and Nasser nodded to them in greeting, and with a quick choreography about who would sit where, the new residents found places in the tiny cell. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She peered between the bars of an empty cell. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There is a tradition on death row in Alabama that, at the time scheduled for the execution, the condemned prisoners bang on their cell doors with cups in protest. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere in the survey, drivers ranked drunk drivers as the first most serious traffic safety problem, and cell phone-using drivers as the second. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Some were photographs—Momly always went nuts with pictures, and Uncle Tony always went nuts with camera filters, and together they had the nerve to get cell phone pictures printed—and some were drawings. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Yet the greater part of the work of oxidation is performed in a theater far smaller, in tiny granules within the cell called mitochondria. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Set a timer on a cell phone, watch, or oven; punch in three minutes; and see what you can do. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Again we find that only by looking at some of the smallest units of life, the cell and its chromosomes, can we find that wider vision needed to penetrate such mysteries. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Instead of wasting so much of the inmates’ time on rec, Larson thought, Sing Sing should put a small library on every gallery so that inmates could sit in their cells and read. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right after that thought flew through my brain cells, I watched Rose raise her lunch box above her head and then—blaap! The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

The ringing of cell phones, the beeping of Game Boys, the traces of far-off rap music escaping the ear buds of a hundred iPods. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

My hands tremble as I struggle to tuck the decades’ worth of filtration straws under the mattress in my beehive cell. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But then, despite my urgings, he dragged his feet; he had things to discuss with the inmate in the cell next to his, and the one next to that. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He clicked a knob and zoomed in to higher and higher magnifications until the hazy sea of green turned into a screen filled with hundreds of individual cells, their centers dark and bulging. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The doctor agreed that it was probably the damp cell that had helped cause my illness. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regardless, Hyman wrote, “I was informed that consent was not necessary . . . that it was unlikely that Jewish patients would agree to live cancer cell injections.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He spends six hours down there and paints the picture for Theo: it is like a beehive, with all its cells, or a dark underground prison. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In my pocket he found my dead cell phone. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Once the virus enters the cell, it becomes a Trojan horse. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

By three billion years ago, a number of one-celled plants had joined together, perhaps because a mutation prevented a single cell from separating after splitting in two. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt like we were being led to our own prison cells. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was seven o’clock, the first day of school, and I was lying there twisted up in my bedding on the top bunk, alone in my O-Hall cell. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In addition to the HeLa-mouse hybrid, Harris fused HeLa with chicken cells that had lost their ability to reproduce. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Tell him he got a long-distance call, somebody named Rebecca calling about his wife cells.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I sometimes considered hanging a shingle outside my cell, because I was spending many hours a week preparing judicial appeals for other prisoners, though this was forbidden under prison service regulations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was designed to house low-risk inmates in dormitory complexes rather than cell blocks. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I had never before had a cell phone in my backpack, and the officer at the receptionist desk played the message before she would allow me to take it up with me. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad calls my cell to check on me and puts me on the phone with Mom and she doesn’t sound too tired. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And he zoomed in on one cancer cell, its edges round and smooth until it began to quiver and shake violently, exploding into five cancer cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Pattie tries to reach Dell, but he doesn't answer his cell phone. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Later that day—in a talk chaired by George Gey—Hayflick delivered a paper, on the “facts and theories” of spontaneous transformation of cells in culture. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

First, it seemed that all normal cells growing in culture eventually died or underwent spontaneous transformation and became cancerous. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Or viruses can bud through a cell wall, like drips coming out of a faucet—drip, drip, drip, drip, copy, copy, copy, copy —that’s the way the aids virus works. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I have a job to do, too—despite the fear rising from my gut and threatening to explode every cell in my body. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Toby knew Jimmy was involved in some petty criminal activity—selling stolen cell phones, the occasional scheme. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I heard him yelling at me from the shower cell as I went to unlock the other inmate. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few hours later that same evening a captain came to our cell and commanded the four of us to pack our belongings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The younger Deborah said she was glad that when she died, she wouldn’t have to tell her mother the story of everything that happened with the cells and the family, because Henrietta already knew. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But no one could test the theory, because two years after Carrel’s death, his assistant unceremoniously threw the famous chicken-heart cells in the trash. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She took her phone out of her pocket and said, “I don’t have cell service. Does anyone else?” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

That wasn’t to say that she didn’t mean to get out of her cell. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Pulled our coats up over our noses and got to work on the door of Julie’s cell, and we dragged its bewildered inhabitant out with us through that horrible room and into the corridor. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Every one of your hundred trillion cells contains a complete library of instructions on how to make every part of you. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inmates would carry bread back from chow, stuff it into the chain-link fence along the gallery, and watch from their cells as the birds came to feed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the men in Zeitoun’s cell knew whether or not these prisoners were still on the football field, or what had become of them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I walked to the door of the cell and looked down the hall. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

I dove toward my cell door as if from the path of a speeding train. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Now on the city streets, the kids looked like American kids, busy with their cell phones, scrolling through Twitter and Facebook. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

From the moment the Collier’s article appeared until the seventies, the woman behind the HeLa cells would be known most often as Helen Lane, and sometimes as Helen Larson, but never as Henrietta Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

No noise besides pans being slid into the oven, and the weird giggles of T-N-T holding their cell phones in the air, posing. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

They’re mammoth filing cabinets of human lives, like bees in a honeycomb, crowded and angry at paying rent for boxes that resemble prison cells. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

We were then taken to our cell, one of the best I had ever seen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if you want to talk, please call our cell phone number. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching HeLa cells divide on a screen, Davidson wrote, “was like a glimpse at immortality.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Scientists knew they had to keep their cultures free from bacterial and viral contamination, and they knew it was possible for cells to contaminate one another if they got mixed up in culture. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Axel responded to the suit by explaining that cells couldn’t grow outside of tissue culture and that there was a world of difference between culture contamination and HIV infection. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

No cell of bars could keep him safe within. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The metal of key and lock jingled; then the door to the cell swung wide open. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t able to go to school for weeks on end when his white blood cell counts were low, so I was basically his sole source of entertainment. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held the plate out at arm's length, over the edge where the cell ended and the sky began. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And then the knife edge would be covered with skin oil and blood cells, and would be ruined. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the room there was another deputy—a broad, jowly bear standing next to the door that led to the jail cells. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

She whirled in time to see the cell door slam shut. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

One of my keeplocks began shouting at me that lunch had never been brought to his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some went back into their cells promptly and voluntarily, but many talked, traded cigarettes, or even jogged away from their own cells to pass something to another inmate at the other end of the gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After years of disbelief and argument from other scientists, Hay- flick’s paper on cell limits became one of the most widely cited in his field. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I took out my cell phone and checked the plate number Ema had texted to me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Voxy rushes to the door, diving through the opening into his cell. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Apart from inmates smoking in their cells, smoking was generally forbidden indoors. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This process correlates with the age of a person: the older we are, the shorter our telomeres, and the fewer times our cells have left to divide before they die. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A young girl playing on a cell phone as an older woman massaged the feet of a person I couldn’t see lying in bed, in Room 417. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Now, I don’t want to have to come in that cell and rubber hose you until you’re so broke up inside that blood’s pourin’ out of every openin’ you got, but if I have to...” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dawn, worn out by the tormented vigil, he appeared in the cell an hour before the execution. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

For this kind of mechanism to be useful, the cells are required to stick precisely to the point. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about it often in his darkened cell, and the smallest details were large for him and every word was audible. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once, I used the prepaid cell phone we had bought in a market in Pátzcuaro and called my parents, even though the phone was supposed to be reserved for emergencies only. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I hit OFF—these are the first calls I’ve made not on the cell phone in a long time—and type in 1-800-SUICIDE. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

In seconds it had blanketed the cells, turning the air a milky green. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

This can easily be caused by the chlorinated hydrocarbons, which, as we have seen, set up changes in liver cells at very low levels of intake. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Some of Enrique’s campmates say they were apprehended when a rancher pointed a pistol at them, told them to freeze, and then dialed the U.S. immigration agents on his cell phone. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The word HeLa,, used to refer to the cells grown from Henrietta Lacks’s cervix, occurs throughout the book. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They led me into a narrow cell where I spent the rest of the night sitting in a chair. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

What would happen in the morning, when the constable found her in the cell and had to bring her home for the second time? Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet no one knew whether a person could actually catch cancer from HeLa or other cancer cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But how do genes make a whole organism grow back out of a single cell? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Now Marcus was sitting in a prison cell, probably wearing an orange jumpsuit. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Carrel’s claims about the cells grew more fantastical. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A special kind of cell division occurs in the formation of the germ cells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Gey’s air freight shipping system worked fine for sending a few cells to colleagues here and there, but it was too expensive for shipping on a massive scale. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Plainly said, she was as much a prisoner in her broken body as Curzon was in his cell. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Throw him down in one of the black cells." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It’s a jail cell of a room with a table and a couple chairs. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

At one point he said the cells “would reach a volume greater than that of the solar system.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then the prisoners would stand up tall, straighten their backs, and turn their heads in the direction of the women’s cells, and Andres would smile. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She even gave me her cell number in case I wanted to text her scene ideas for her character. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Each cell had a white card posted outside of it with our name and our prison service number. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Basil is hidden behind a storm cell of e-cig vapor. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A guard unlocked the door of Shin’s cell and handed him the school uniform he had worn on the day he arrived in the underground prison. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Muscles liquefy and reorganize themselves around groups of cells called “imaginal discs,” creating brand-new body parts: wings, legs, antennae, and so on. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Judging from the acoustics, Reyna was in a small room with brick or concrete walls: maybe a basement or a cell. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Some of them looked up when the newcomers were tossed into the cell, but most did not bother to acknowledge their presence. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A cell phone," he said, “and...look at this..." The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

"No one brought a message. He called me himself—my cell phone is there in my purse." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like everyone else, he began in one of the two double-bunked cells but after six weeks or so was moved to his own cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way the system works in South Africa is that you’re arrested and held in a cell at the police station until your bail hearing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Rishi whipped out his cell phone and dialed home to warn Ma and Pappa. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how it worked yet, but his discovery showed that something in cells regulated genes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the morning the door was opened and four men were added to their cell. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He also found inclusion bodies inside the monkey’s liver cells. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man gets on the bus, his cell phone in his hand, and he is playing music for the entire bus, holding his phone up like it’s an eighties boom box. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was cold in the cell, the wind screamed night and day, and worst of all, the floor sloped. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

By the time he came back, Julia had helped me sit up with my back propped against a cell door. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She checks the time on her cell phone. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

For he also was furnished with a ceiling bulb that burned eternally, but, unlike Hickock, he had in his cell a broom, and by pressing the broom-brush against the bulb he could unscrew it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took out my cell phone, prepared to call someone, anyone, so I’d have a witness, but I wasn’t getting service. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The red blood cells of some people of African descent look like sickles or crescent moons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Searched through all the cells and found a shiv tucked under D’s mattress. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

That settled, I reached in my back pocket for my cell phone to let Spoony know I was on my way. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“I’ll be out in a minute. That cell was filthy. I think I might have fleas.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They had to transfuse several units of red cells— How will I tell Soraya? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It means that some of the molecules in his cells are destroyed, so that the cells no longer work normally and cannot grow and divide. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Without my cell phone, who will I be? It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The cell was one of two in the courthouse basement and had neither bars nor windows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The cells were perfect—or so it seemed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the colonel’s disdainful attitude, the cells were soon painted and fumigated and we were supplied with fresh blankets and sanitary pails. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I may not have a cell phone, but I’m not stupid. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He was led out of the cell and down the hall. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

If a street had more than ten houses, a street steward would take charge and the cell stewards would report to him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Thomas. Take him back to his cell. And put some qualified guards on his watch, for once." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I so wanted to tell Thomas about my busted cell phone, but I pushed play on my old iPod instead. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

So when TeLinde offered him a supply of cervical cancer tissue in exchange for trying to grow some cells, Gey didn’t hesitate. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We live in a world where the microbes are always trying to get at us, to tear us cell from cell, and we only stay alive and whole through diligence and fear. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a bitterly cold night, and for the next hour, while we stood at attention naked and shivering, our cells were searched one by one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Well, then,’ says the warden, looking at his watch, ‘hardly worth going back to your cell then, is it?’ The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got a cell phone, sunglasses, and an umbrella. No book.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I saw the cell phone on Dr. Fiona’s belt and signaled to her that I wanted it—I mimed dialing on my palm, then brought the “phone” to my ear. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I found the painted Masonite board and a box of plastic pieces in the lounge; we balanced the board carefully on the cell’s food slot, near the floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My cells were born, or differentiated anyway, knowing how to do this kind of thing together. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men in the cell told each other how they had ended up at Hunt. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t really want him to have our phone number. Do you want to call him from your mom’s cell phone?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I hear the sounds on the street—car tires through slush, buses braking and hissing as they lower and open doors, boots striking cement, voices talking on cell phones, radio music from a fast truck. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The key to the cell hung from a hook on the wall above the table. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The next day at noon a guard came to his cell and poked a telegram through the bars. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We watched a teenager sitting outside on her fire escape, talking on her cell phone, her feet dangling over the edge to the street below. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Five floors, right? Processing area, and four levels of cells. So what’s here? In the basement?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“They had my best friend in there—you were in her cell. She was there for two months.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Miig sat, satisfied that we were all at attention, that we were listening with every cell. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

As he walked up to his house, he again lamented that he forgot to bring his cell phone. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The men in the first cell were mostly sleeping, or dying, or dead. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

If tissue samples—including blood cells—became patients’ property, researchers taking them without getting consent and property rights up front would risk being charged with theft. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And so did the cells: When the package arrived in Minneapolis about four days later, Scherer put the cells in an incubator and they began to grow. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The two warders then began a thorough search of my cell to see if they could turn up anything else. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It worked, and streams of juice the color of mangoes stained her face for the rest of the day, and the next day, and the next day—until, I suppose, those skin cells wore off. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Seeing Shin curled up on the floor of his cell, a guard shouted in the prison hallway, “That little runt is really tough.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The Glass Castle would have solar cells on the top that would catch the sun’s rays and convert them into electricity for heating and cooling and running all the appliances. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The view to either side was of a sort of tunnel with cells defining one wall and a mesh fence overlooking the flats the other. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he were, Lydia would have asked him why he looked as though he felt like his heart was being pulled from his chest, fiber by fiber, cell by cell, molecule by molecule. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“The cells in your systems have atrophied and are dead,” she said sharply. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dad! Could you show me the cell house, and then maybe could we play ball?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why did that—that red-eyed thing bring me to this cell, if I’m not to be interrogated?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Agreeing to spend a whole year alone in Southeast Alaska had been his only way of avoiding a jail cell in Minneapolis. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

What happened between us has colonized every last brain cell. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could. But this isn’t a problem I can solve with solar cells and computer systems, Elizabeth. Your mother’s best at dealing with friend stuff.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Each contained as many as ten thousand cells, and the cells themselves were split by the knife. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those heart cells kept beating as if they were still in the chicken’s body. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It turned out those cells weren’t from Russian cancer patients at all. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It is conceivable that new clones of cells with a particular receptor are stimulated to emerge in the process of training. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought she was panicking, changing her mind about seeing the cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The usual way of looking at them is as enslaved creatures, captured to supply ATP for cells unable to respire on their own, or to provide carbohydrate and oxygen for cells unequipped for photosynthesis. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In what became known as the “Night of Terror,” the women were taken across a grassy yard to the men’s prison, where they were placed in individual cells. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Long story short: I need to bring twenty-eight square meters of solar cell. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alone in his freezing cell, Stockdale communicated with the other Americans using an ingenious “tap code.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Everyone in our cell is awake now except Mouse Girl, the newcomer. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

As normal cells go through life, their telomeres shorten with each division until they’re almost gone. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There is a constant and surprisingly rapid turnover of the receptor cells, with new ones emerging from basal cells within a few days. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We complained about the dampness in our cell, which was causing us to catch colds. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he nods, picks up his cell phone, and begins typing something. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The cells could die any minute,” he told Mary. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was thousands of miles from my wife, sitting in a room that felt like a holding cell, waiting for a man I had seen murder two people that same day. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Ben was placed in a dark cell on the white man’s side of the jailhouse. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Wasting a day of your life watching me sit in a cell. What fun." Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

"It's nine thirty," I say, catching a glimpse of the screen of a cell phone. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The footsteps pass his cell, stop several doors away. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, she could feel the magic pulsing under her skin, each filament insinuating itself between cells, through tissues, filling up her bones. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I stop in the middle of the cell and raise my eyebrows at her. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It had cells on three of the four sides. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They're not affected by storms; they work day or night; they're entirely internal, so you don't need delicate solar cells all over your probe. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benji gave them each a high five and pulled out his cell phone for a series of selfies. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The same thought seemed to occur almost simultaneously to everyone in the cell. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

They were herded into an already crowded cell. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Drug treatment on demand must be provided for all Americans, a far better investment of taxpayer money than prison cells for people struggling with drug addiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He’d heard a man coughing too hard a few cells down. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sweeping off a huge field of solar cells is boring and physically demanding. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got them in anyway, but the complaining caught on with the two or three keeplocks whose cells were on the other side of the shower. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A short melodic idea may also be called a motiv, a motive, a cell, or a figure. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There were six prisoners in the cell, men and women. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Perch didn’t stop cursing me as he walked to his cell, but he didn’t swing at me, either. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they didn’t know what effects any of this would have on humans: Would it cause cellular changes, or even cell death? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Both floors had cages, or bubbles, in which one officer sat and operated the gates and cell doors by means of an ancient system of brass-handled levers that protruded from the wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Scientists had been trying to keep human cells alive in culture for decades, but they all eventually died. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Patricia Webb put some of the black blood droplets into flasks of monkey cells, and pretty soon the cells got sick and began to die—they burst. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seem to call to you from another place that you’ve accidentally tapped into, like a cell phone pulling in a conversation in some foreign language—yet somehow you understand it. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

And they were very sick, because the fluid was milky and clouded with dead cells, cells that had exploded. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The battery of his cell phone had gone dead again. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

When they fused, the genetic material from the two cells combined, as with sperm meeting egg. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

More than anything, she told me, she wanted to learn about her mother and what her cells had done for science. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Not when that half-ton has to be a mass of condensers, circuits, relays, and vacuum cells that can handle practically any psychological reaction known to humans. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

And as soon as HeLa became “general scientific property,” people started wondering about the woman behind the cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There’s a problem in the cell house kitchen, where I’m not allowed to go. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Molecular biology did not drive out older, fixed views about the intimate details of cell function. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the bricks appear and move outward, they distort the cell, causing it to bulge and change shape, and finally the cell pops—it bursts and dies. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just then, the cell phone in her back pocket chimes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He was still huddled on the cell floor hours later when Garvey had stopped by. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

There was no window anywhere in his basement cell, no portal through which the autumn light could come to him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

My notion was that every cell and street steward should know every person and family in his area, so that he would be trusted by the people and would know whom to trust. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Matthias opened the door to Nina’s cell, she hesitated for the briefest moment. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Proteins coax and control these fundamental chemical reactions in the cell—speeding some and slowing others, pacing the reactions just enough to be compatible with living. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

As I shut the door and turned toward the kitchen, Nan’s cell phone caught my eye from where it rested next to my backpack on the kitchen table. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The nineteenth-century realization that the living cell was no more than a bag of interconnected chemical reactions had launched a powerful discipline fusing biology and chemistry—biochemistry. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Once declared weapon-free, I joined the flow of bodies filling the hallways like blood cells in a vein. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The whole class looked up from their microscopes, where we were studying plant cells, and faced me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

When we returned to our cells, we would scrub ourselves in the cold water, which never seemed to completely rinse away the dust. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He threw the door wide so my cell was lit by the blazing electric bulbs in the interrogation room and uttered in disbelief, “Eva Seiler?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The prize had nothing to do with the chicken heart, but articles about his award conflated the immortal chicken-heart cells with his transplantation work, and suddenly it sounded like he’d found the fountain of youth. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He thought of Nina standing terrified in that cell as the door slammed shut. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to spend his life in a jail cell. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

It took the guards some time to open his cell, as ice had formed inside the lock. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If all those cells were in fact HeLa, it would mean that millions of dollars had been wasted, and researchers who’d found that various cells behaved differently in culture could have some explaining to do. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She picked up the glowing ball, cupped it in her hands, and once again the cell was dark. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Now, if we’re done with the chitchat, I have a cell and maybe even a noose waiting for a certain degenerate you’re harboring in this town.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Normally, HIV can infect only blood cells, but Axel had inserted a specific DNA sequence from a blood cell into HeLa cells, which made it possible for HIV to infect them as well. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The jailer locked me in a cell with a toothless madwoman who huddled in the corner and spat at me. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hsu was the University of Texas geneticist whose earlier work with HeLa and other cells had made it possible to discover the correct number of human chromosomes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Nana’s cell phone rings at 6:42, as we are cleaning up from dinner. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Matthias slipped the master key from around Brum’s neck and dragged him into an empty cell, propping him up against the wall in a seated position. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They took a thirty-five-foot section of corridor and created a cell block with a prefabricated wall. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there baffled while Ema moved around the tombstone, using the light from her cell phone to see. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

When she asked McKusick to explain more about the cells, he gave her a book he’d edited called Medical Genetics, which would become one of the most important textbooks in the field. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He felt like a prisoner, kept in a small cell that was hurtling through the sky at what he thought to be 160 miles an hour, headed— he didn’t know where—just headed somewhere until... Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are only three numbers besides my own that I’ve memorized: My parents’ cells. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“The walls of the cell fell away, the sky came down, I saw the big yellow bird.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He roused some as I shut the door to the cells. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one moved, but plenty of people held up cell phones, still recording the event. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

As cells went, it was large and queerly comfortable. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“What about the other prisoners in the holding cells?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I'm free to walk around in my cell, but instead I just sit there and lean against the wall, my arms resting on my knees. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Buddy Ray flicked my cell phone on—and then his face froze. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I saw myself starting a race war in the holding cell. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They're returning me to my cell, I guess, at least for now. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Five minutes after he hung up on me, I called his cell again. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He shoved a bucket of fresh water into the cell and slammed the bars shut. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

No one had ever been able to replicate Carrel’s work, and the cells seemed to defy a basic rule of biology: that normal cells can only divide a finite number of times before dying. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Our meeting ended shortly afterward, and when we were walking back to our cells with the major, he said to me, “Mandela, were you struck by the behavior of Bram Fischer?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the cells would be with me, but the other two would be dropped off and left far away. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Few kept clear records of which cells grew from which donors, and many mislabeled their cultures, if they labeled them at all. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He will get a very high fever, and since his blood cells were damaged and cannot reproduce, he will also get anemic. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I called them on your father’s cell phone. I never wanted one of those, but now I think I’d better get one after all. They simply cut my phone line.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Leonard Hayflick had an especially personal connection with his cell line, WISH, which Gartler had listed as contaminated: he’d grown it using cells from the amniotic sac in which his unborn daughter had once floated. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She pulled out her cell phone right there in the lobby. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It’s true that the embassy had his cell phone number, but he’d left no forwarding address at the Bern hotel. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Once they were in those holding cells, Kaz and the others would be at their most vulnerable. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My fingers are trembling as I press the numbers, and even more when her cell phone starts to ring. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Only two of those cases mentioned the people those cells came from: the first, in 1976, involved ownership of an important human-fetal-cell line. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

During the first two years on the island, we were not even permitted to leave our cells for Sunday services. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re not allowed to have cell phones here, or iPods, or anything else that might distract us from “our program.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But Alba was unable to sleep, for the door of her cell opened and a man walked in. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not how I felt about being the only one without a cell phone. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I told her, “Dad didn’t have a spirit! He had cells!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They walked back inside and went to Kaori’s bedroom, where she had laid her cell phone just outside the door. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

If I'd felt like sharing my bed with trillions of dead skin cells, I would have stayed at home or spent the night with friends. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

"You will open the cell, or you will come with me to Lord Hosier's solar and tell him why you saw fit to defy me." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I pick him up and place him in his cell. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s an earlier version of that salve they put on your shoulder--it accelerates the growth of new cells.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In her cell, Fannie was in view of any men who might walk by, some of whom were drunk and disorderly. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

It bonds to your red blood cells like oxygen, but unlike oxygen, it doesn’t let your blood cells go. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

As HeLa grew like crabgrass in laboratories around the world, a virologist named Chester Southam had a frightening thought: What if Henrietta’s cancer cells could infect the scientists working on them? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

To get to it, I'm allowed to walk across the grounds from the building where our cells are. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The long latent period of most cancers is the time required for the infinite number of cell divisions during which fermentation is gradually increasing after the initial damage to respiration. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

By cell count, humans are approximately 50 percent microbial, meaning that about half of the cells that make you up are not yours at all. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

And then he was awake, and he knew he’d gone mad because she was here, in his cell, kneeling beside him, her hand resting gently on his chest. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"No one cares where you sleep. Most of the old keeps are empty, you can pick any cell you want." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The cells where the guards had beaten him were below ground level. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

At a certain point it occurred to me that every single person in that cell might be faking it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Blithely unaware of how bad things really were, Konoval led me down the gallery and asked, “How about the cell compliance?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t lift the body from the cell right away. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The cell phone...your gloves...and here’s some money if you stop for food on the way back.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The corpses he consigned to the ice cells. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was less troubled by the closeness of his cell walls with the naked light put out, less conscious that he was jailed. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The regime he imposed was draconian: He subtracted the labor that kept Pennsylvania’s inmates occupied during the day in their cells, as well as the opportunity they had for daily exercise. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was no cleaner here, and in fact file air was even harder to breathe than in the cell, because all the natural stinks had been overlaid by a heavy layer of cloying perfume. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They picked him up and carried him down the corridor to another cell. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

By the early nineties, a scientist at Yale had used HeLa to discover that human cancer cells contain an enzyme called telomerase that rebuilds their telomeres. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As much as every cell in my body longed for the few sips it contained, I crouched over Amil. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I arrived at the courthouse early the next morning to visit Walter in his basement cell before the proceedings began. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She was about to say something else when her cell phone rang, and she answered. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The bone marrow is the chief producer of red blood cells throughout life, sending some 10 million new cells per second into the bloodstream of man. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was listening with every cell, desperate to pick up a new piece of information or add a new color to the picture that was my father’s last days. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

One thing was certain: The shiny solar cells of the hoverboard would be obvious from the air. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Every brain cell in his head screamed for him to pull the trigger. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The cell had two doors: a metal gate or grille with iron bars on the inside and a thick wooden door outside of that. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite all the other cases and the press they’ve received, the Lacks family has never actually tried to sue anyone over the HeLa cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The faucet runs and runs until the cell is exhausted, consumed, and destroyed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, no, no . . . there was no way to patent cells then.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Visions of concentration camps and lonely cells raced through my head. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“That is no towel for a jail cell,” Mama finished, as if that was what she had been about to say from the start. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After thirty-six hours alone, the door to Dasch's cell was unlocked and he was taken to a room to speak to two FBI agents. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I could go further, I still have 15 percent battery power or so, but I want to get as much daylight on my solar cells as I can. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to need a couple of dry cells,” he said. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have an extra room just for the cells,” he said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The bacteria break down the cell walls of the grass and allow the cows to get at the protein and carbohydrates within. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We may be reminded of prisoners trying to look out from small cell windows, or perhaps “blindfolded” targets of execution. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two hundred square meters of solar cells, with hydrogen fuel cells to store plenty of reserve. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He unlocked the cell door and let Shadow in. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

They trade normal diurnal rhythms for the perk of having very little inmate contact—at night, all the inmates are locked in their cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she could see the smaller structures—dust and barb and cell. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later they stopped in front of a huge white building; he was led up steps, down hallways and then halted in front of a cell door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The moment the bathroom door clicks closed, G’ma’s cell starts blaring from one of the cup holders, and a scowling face appears on the screen. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The cell feels the virus sticking to it and enfolds the virus and drags it inside. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I look at the cell house, sad and silent. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a place in the 400-meter race where every cell of your body locks up. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The M.P.s locked him up for the night in a cell with four stone walls. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

A short while before dawn he visited the condemned man in the room used as a cell. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But now their numbers overwhelm the Box, so they stay put, mixed in with the general population—except they can’t come out of their cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had put him into a cell similar to the one he was in now, but filthily dirty and at all times crowded by ten or fifteen people. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe cell phone towers are out because they have no power. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They dragged him over the floor by his feet and stopped directly in front of Bigger’s cell door. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She could have you in a cell block in six hours flat.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Do be compassionate, don’t forget that she’s been through a lot with these cells, do have patience. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

That was queer; the young maester had his cell only a half turn down the stair, within easy earshot. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“No arcanist worth his salt can be kept in a cell,” I said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Finally, with recreation having been called, most inmates off the gallery, and things settled down, I went to find my disobedient porter and lock him into his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everything always just about the cells and don’t even worry about her name and was HeLa even a person. So hallelujah! I think a book would be great!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Instead, they felt that “a splinter terrorist cell, or a lone actor...would be more likely to exploit a hurricane on site. This includes persons pursuing a political agenda, religious extremists, or other disgruntled individuals.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It was dead, of course: wet, chargeless, and fifty years from the nearest cell tower. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Half a heartbeat later, the door to his cell came swinging open. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Like Berg, she wrote that “the human story behind these cells would be of great interest to the public.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was too bad she didn’t include her cell phone number, but why would she? Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

So he wrote her again, giving her all of his phone numbers, his three cell phones, his office phone, and his home landline. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Men and women coming out of the cells are yawning and grunting. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In her cell, she stripped to the skin and dressed herself carefully, in two layers of smallclothes, warm stockings, and her cleanest tunic. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Look, Ema will have her cell phone on the whole time.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

On weekends, during our first year on the island, we were kept inside our cells all day except for a half hour of exercise. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The solar cells of the recharging hoverboards were blindingly bright in the sun. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The book was filled with complicated sentences explaining Henrietta’s cells by saying, “its atypical histology may correlate with the unusually malignant behavior of the carcinoma,” and something about the “correlate of the tumor’s singularity.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Feathers sticks her head out and cranes her neck around peeking into Suma’s cell. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He shared a cell at some point with someone who had nearly beaten his girlfriend to death. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He explained how the HeLa contamination problem happened, then said, “Her cells caused millions of dollars in damage. Seems like a bit of poetic justice, doesn’t it?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But the flask was milky, and the cells were blown away. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was stylish, efficient, and compact, like a cell phone. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then I sees I’m sitting in a jail cell with the door wide open. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

With those cells, scientists helped prove the Salk vaccine effective. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had sat in his cell, bent over the page and wrote those words. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

If you’re on a cell phone, you might hear a short beep, have a message appear that the call has ended. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In some species, the members are so tied to each other and interdependent as to seem the loosely conjoined cells of a tissue. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course not. How could I lay hands on your brother from inside this cell?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“This is my mom’s cell phone number. Maybe we could meet up after school sometime?” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He looked away from me as he carefully peeled the magnetic sticky patches that detoxified his cells off his wrists and slid them into a pocket. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could chemical debris carry genetic information from one cell to another? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I took out my cell phone and pointed it at him. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Each death row inmate was placed in a five-by-eight-foot cell with a metal door, a commode, and a steel bunk. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Two of them ran past their cells and, despite my commands to stop, past me, up to the gate, where they hollered for Cradle. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Everybody always saying Henrietta Lacks donated those cells. She didn’t donate nothing. They took them and didn’t ask.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Most people here have cell phones, but we do not. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Spirochetes, like the ones attached to M. paradoxa, joined up and became the cilia of eukaryotic cells. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indians have historically been burdened by flukes, tapeworms, and nematodes, so they have long had majorities of parasite- fighting helper-T cells. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He liked the classical genetic assumption that male and female cells contribute equal amounts of genetic material, even though the resulting analysis was perversely complex. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I race this way and that, not sure what to do, until I find myself on the corner begging everyone who passes to borrow their cell phone. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“What you mean you got her cells in your lab?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as your cell goes quiet, the house phone rings. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

In contrast, Bill’s reasoning started from the seemingly arbitrary hypothesis that only a fraction of the male chromosomal material enters the female cell. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

When the cell divides into two, half of each goes to each of the daughter cells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Late on the night of May 28, we were awakened by shouts and fierce knocking on our cell doors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darwin imagined that the cells of all organisms produce minute particles containing hereditary information—gemmules, he called them. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The handcuffs were clicked upon him and he was led through the underground passage back to his cell. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t feel his cell phone shoot out of his shirt pocket, didn’t hear it smash on the concrete and skitter in pieces into the gutter. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Nanobots the size of blood cells are injected, sometimes even without a person’s knowledge. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The principal question he cared about concerned development: How does an organism emerge from a single cell? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But Hagrid was miles away now, probably sitting in a cell in Azkaban, and he had also said to follow the spiders. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The inmates whose cells surrounded the courtyard were shouting obscenities at us through their windows. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genes reside on chromosomes—long, filamentous structures buried within cells that contain tens of thousands of genes linked together in chains.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the coming years, Southam injected HeLa and other living cancer cells into more than six hundred people for his research, about half of them cancer patients. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Women in cells at the other end tell Malachy he’s gorgeous and the twins are dotes. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

After taking 4 photos with her cell phone, she drives me to Windy’s. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The block’s keeplock officer, instead of borrowing my keys and ushering the inmates to their cells, called, “They’re back,” when he came through the gate and then disappeared. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without any one of those contributions, he said, the cultured cells wouldn’t exist, and neither would any money resulting from their sale. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

They turn out to be little separate creatures, the colonial posterity of migrant prokaryocytes, probably primitive bacteria that swam into ancestral precursors of our eukaryotic cells and stayed there. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most cells in culture grew in a single layer in a clot on a glass surface, which meant they ran out of space quickly. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Molecules with specialized functions eventually joined together, making a kind of molecular collective—the first cell. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read once that, on average, we replace the majority of our cells every seven years. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A cell phone could be seen on his bedside table. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Back when there weren't cell phones, you weren't waiting by the phone by default. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Rogers first learned about HeLa cells after seeing “Helen Lane Lives!” written over a urinal in a medical school bathroom. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I could walk the length of my cell in three paces. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But before the cloning of whole animals, there was the cloning of individual cells —Henrietta’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

All she could see of the girl sitting there was a waterfall of brown hair and the edge of a cell phone the girl was hunched over. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Radiation is an uncoupler, and the death of cells exposed to radiation is thought by some to be brought about in this way. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I hear him crawl to the front of his cell. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“So we don’t have the thing that made her cells grow forever?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After that they returned her to her cell. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"So much bloodshed," Lou says, peering through the bars of a prison cell. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The day was warm, a little windy, and leaf shadows, supple emanations from the tree boughs that brushed the cell’s barred window, tantalized Perry’s tamed squirrel. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is a family resemblance. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eilonwy, listen,” Taran interrupted, “if there are tunnels and passages under the castle—can you get to the other cells? Is there a way outside?” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I grabbed a bag of chips, reached into my bag to grab my cell phone, a random lady tripped over me, and the next thing I know I was getting pressed out by the officer. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

And through that microscope, for that moment, all she could see was an ocean of her mother’s cells, stained an ethereal fluorescent green. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Another gunman yelled to a woman who had been talking on her cell phone when the four men ran into the store. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The regulation of genes—the selective turning on and off of certain genes in certain cells, and at certain times—must interpose a crucial layer of complexity on the unblinking nature of biological information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She pulled her cell halfway out her pocket to check the time, shoved it back in and said: “What’d you do, anyways?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I was determined that we would not give in, and we did not, for we were already at the cells. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary knew she shouldn’t wait—every moment those cells sat in the dish made it more likely they’d die. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Cops get there and tell him to put his hands up cuz they think he’s robbing her, and when he does, they open fire cuz they think his cell phone is a gun. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One end of the tube was wedged between his bars at stomach level, and the other protruded halfway into the narrow gallery space between cell bars and fence, like a miniature bazooka. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt suffocated in that cell, let out only to exercise and to eat, food that brought to mind a bowl of boiled worms. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

What can I do but throw my rosary against the wall of my cell and swear violence? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

No bigger than a cell, the space was originally built for Maxine to play in when she was a girl. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And there are indications that these chemicals lodge in tissues concerned with the manufacture of germ cells as well as in the cells themselves. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“They knew them cells was already growin when I come down there after she died,” Day said, shaking his head. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

His body was flung across the cell and fetched up against the base of the lavatory seat. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Each cell had only one floor-level latrine, which was completely exposed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He had been stripped of his tools: his coin, key, and candle. Furthermore, his cell had no door worth mentioning. No window that could be breached.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The reason Henrietta’s cells were so precious was because they allowed scientists to perform experiments that would have been impossible with a living human. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But once I swept the cells off, they returned to full efficiency. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was watching a movie of someone else’s life now, and he saw the cops get on their cell phones, probably to notify their superiors of what had happened. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

At this time the chromosomes do not split, but one whole chromosome of each pair goes into each daughter cell. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Or his cell phone could fall out of his pocket and shatter into a million pieces. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Moreover, a drunk driver remains impaired for the whole ride, whereas the impairment of a cell phone user is intermittent, and impacts the brain only in the period surrounding their interaction with the device. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The camera and the power meter only need a tiny fraction of what a solar cell can make. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was light-headed from hunger; her brain cells were being robbed of vitally needed oxygen for good growth and, and...yawn. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t even a baseline from the previous study, given the low use of cell phones at the turn of the century. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Isabel put Auggie on the phone while she called Dad’s cell phone to let him know I was crying hysterically in my room. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

If I left it in place, I could have four stacks of seven cells. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, I believe in my decision with absolute certainty, a certainty that thrums through every cell in my body. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was at camp still, and they didn't let her use a cell phone, at least not last year, but just to be sure he pulled his phone out of his camouflage pants pocket. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Our turns, in order, from our point of origin—my cell—to our destination. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, they all have cell phones and can text each other and have group chats,” I snapped at her. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

One girl hid in a delivery truck and got into the jail but didn’t make it to his cell. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He woke to the sound of voices and crept to die door of his cell,.but the wood was too thick and he could not make out the words. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If researchers wanted to figure out how cells behaved in a certain environment, or reacted to a specific chemical, or produced a certain protein, they turned to Henrietta’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And because of that, her family had no idea her cells were alive. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We had no running water in our cells and instead of toilets had iron sanitary buckets known as “bailies.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, our cell block seemed more like a study hall than a prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I felt the field give way, as I had broken through . . . the cells looked as though someone had put a tiny hand grenade into each one—the whole culture had just blown apart! The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Men walk around in shiny suits, and many of them talk on cell phones. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

In the next cell, the boy—Jackson—made a noise, a kind of catcall, that caused the moment to seem silly and cheap. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I found seemed ancient, but I copied down the cell numbers for A.M. porters anyway and returned to W-gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, one of my inmates on V-gallery had gotten one of the kittens into his cell. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For me it was one and the same unending day that was unfolding in my cell and the same thing I was trying to do. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

To undermine their effort, one of the district commissioners ordered the warden to install two gas stoves near the women’s cells and to hire six women to cook ham and bacon twenty-four hours a day. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Delacruz, in the meantime, graduated to his own cell, but it was way upstairs on U-and-Z, not on V. So we’d acknowledge each other in the mess hall or wherever else our paths would cross. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was led away to be locked in Martin’s museum—in what used to be the sacristy and was now the island’s makeshift jail cell—until he could be remanded to police on the mainland. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They are part of each other, interstitial: lodged between each others cells. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He told me his name and then pointed out the cell number painted by the door lock. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I mouth into the phone, I love you, in case some of her cells pick up on the vibrations and it serves me well in the next life. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The cell was a world down there, and somewhere in that jungle hid a virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We learned that by studying cancer cells in culture,” Defier said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Take our prisoner to the cells and hand her over to Otrera’s guards. And, Kinzie, be sure you leave before anything unfortunate happens. I don’t want my loyal followers held accountable for a prison break.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He carried the diamond knife and the plug of plastic containing the toast crumb of cells into the cutting room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gave viewers a basic overview of cell structure and cancer using diagrams and a long wooden pointer. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Proteins also form the structural components of the cell: filaments of hair, nails, cartilage, or the matrices that trap and tether cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There was an argument from the cell on the other side of the wall and a thump from the one above. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where there should have been more cells there was a steel door, bright light shining beneath it. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Now he could no more excise it from his brain cells than he could sever his past from his future. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was trying to seal off the front of his cell by hanging plastic bags and blankets all over the bars—the smoke was that dense. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood mesmerized, watching one of her mother’s cells divide in two, just as they’d done when Henrietta was an embryo in her mother’s womb. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Moss did his best to keep his mind on the intricacies of cell replication until four, when Mrs. Hernandez had to close things up. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Christoph bent over the microscope to bring the cells into focus, and an image appeared on the screen that looked more like hazy green pond water than cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z