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pluripotency
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pluripotency /plu·rip·o·ten·cy/ (-po´ten-se)
1. the ability to develop or act in any one of several possible ways.
2. the ability to affect more than one organ or tissue.plurip´otentpluripoten´tial
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They then tricked the skin-derived pluripotent stem cells into forming liver cells by mimicking the normal processes through which liver cells are made during embryonic development.
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The generation of pluripotent stem cells from an individual patient would enable the large-scale production of the cell types affected by that patient's disease.
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