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pluripotency

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[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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Gene expression analysis of all 8CLCs revealed that EGA genes were highly expressed, with pluripotency gene expression being minimal in iBM cells.

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

Genes related to pluripotency, or a cell’s ability to grow into a variety of fully developed forms, did the opposite.

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

Induction of sgRNA2b resulted in downregulation of pluripotency genes such as NANOG, ETS1 and DPPA3, consistent with OCT4 depletion causing exit from self-renewal.

From Nature • Sep. 19, 2017