pluripotency
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The title of the paper is "Nanomolar vanillin, an e-cigarette flavorant, appears to disrupt pluripotency and promote endodermal differentiation in human embryonic stem cells via TRPV4 activation."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
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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