basal

Example Sentences

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As GATA6 levels drop, cancer cells lose their organized structure, shift toward the more aggressive basal state, and become much less responsive to chemotherapy.

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

They detached from the ventricular zone more often and were more likely to become basal progenitor cells instead.

From Science Daily • Dec. 17, 2025

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay shared his skin cancer diagnosis on social media, revealing that he had surgery to remove basal cell carcinoma.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 31, 2025

“Grateful and so appreciative for the incredible team at The Skin Associates and their fast, reactive work on removing this basal cell carcinoma. Thank you!”

From Salon • Sep. 2, 2025

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.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas