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pluripotency

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

noun

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


Other Word Forms

  • pluripotence noun

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"This work helps us to better understand naive pluripotency in primate cells," adds co-corresponding author Qiang Sun of CAS.

From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023

It was long assumed that when these embryonic cells lose their pluripotency, that versatility is gone forever.

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

For example, pharmacological inhibition of FGF and downstream ERK signalling leads to ectopic expression of pluripotency factors in the mouse, but not the human at equivalent stages31, 32.

From Nature • Sep. 19, 2017