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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.
Riken said cortex tissues were also obtained from "induced pluripotent stem cells," which are similar to embryonic stem cells but artificially induced, typically from adult cells such as skin cells.
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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