pluripotency
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The other 8CLCs displayed higher expression of pluripotency genes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 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
Early mammalian embryogenesis is controlled by mechanisms that govern the balance between pluripotency and differentiation.
From Nature ● Sep. 19, 2017
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