pluripotency
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Wu says that for him, the key value of the study comes in proving out the high pluripotency of the stem cells that scientists use in the lab.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 10, 2023
"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
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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