multipotent
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of multipotent
Example Sentences
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During osteoporosis, these multipotent cells tend to turn into fat-creating cells instead, but they could be reprogrammed to help treat the disease.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2023
On its Web site, the Utah Cord Bank touts its products as containing “young multipotent cells” that can turn into many kinds of tissue.
From The New Yorker ● May 7, 2019
Lineage specification of human dendritic cells is marked by IRF8 expression in hematopoietic stem cells and multipotent progenitors.
From Nature ● Jan. 23, 2018
These cells then become slightly more specialized, and are referred to as multipotent cells.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
As of his own coinage I should set down such vocables as motley-minded, mirth-moving, mockable, marbled, martyred, merriness, marrowless, mightful, multipotent, masterdom, monarchize, etc. etc.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various
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