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To: neverdem

Clarify that one,induced pluripotent or omnipotent?


3 posted on 04/30/2010 8:05:09 PM PDT by nomad
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To: nomad
Clarify that one,induced pluripotent or omnipotent?

Neither. It's usually called totipotent, as in a fertilized ovum, not omnipotent.

Glossary

Mesenchymal stem cells—A term that is currently used to define non-blood adult stem cells from a variety of tissues, although it is not clear that mesenchymal stem cells from different tissues are the same.

Induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)—A type of pluripotent stem cell, similar to an embryonic stem cell, formed by the introduction of certain embryonic genes into a somatic cell.

5 posted on 04/30/2010 8:33:23 PM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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