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pluripotency

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[ploor-uh-poht-uhn-see] / ˌplʊər əˈpoʊt ən si /

noun

  1. Biology. the fact or condition of being pluripotent.


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Gene expression analysis of all 8CLCs revealed that EGA genes were highly expressed, with pluripotency gene expression being minimal in iBM cells.

From Science Daily Sep. 21, 2023

All embryos contain a ball of cells that are able to develop into any of the body's tissue types, a property called pluripotency.

From Scientific American May 31, 2023

The pluripotency genes then returned to dormancy when the process was complete.

From New York Times Sep. 6, 2022

In those efforts and many others since, stem cells from cow embryos would develop into other cell types when grown in a lab dish, meaning that they would quickly lose their “stemmy-ness,” or pluripotency.

From Science Magazine Feb. 5, 2018

A team of US and Japanese researchers reports that it can coax cells into an embryonic state by bathing the cells in acid, a technique called stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency or STAP.

From Nature Dec. 6, 2016

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