Jurkat cell

noun

Jurkat cell

noun
1

Biology, Natural sciences One of an immortalized line of T cells used in genetic research.

  • The Jurkat cell line was established in the late 1970s from the peripheral blood of a 14-year-old boy with T-cell leukemia.

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