pluripotent
Can become anything
Pluripotent describes cells capable of developing into almost any cell type in the body.
Stem cells are the primary example—pluripotent stem cells can differentiate into muscle, nerve, blood, or other specialized cells, but cannot form an entire organism on their own.
Researchers harvest pluripotent cells for regenerative medicine.
The term appears almost exclusively in biology and medical research.
At earliest developmental stage
- blastocystEarly developmental stage before implantation
- differentiationRecognizing meaningful differences
- reprogrammingAltering original functional instructions
- inducedBrought about deliberately
totipotent · multipotent · lineage · progenitor · naïve · primed · colony · feeder
Organism before birth
- gastrulationEmbryo forms primary layers
- morphogenesisDevelopmental shape emergence
- ectodermEmbryo's outer cell layer
- mesodermEmbryonic tissue forming muscles
endoderm · organogenesis · germinal · ontogeny · fate · specification · commitment · determination
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- repairRestore to working order
- renewalMaking current again
- healingRestoration of health
- growthIncrease in size
transdifferentiation · planaria · axolotl · reconstitution · remodeling · therapeutic · replacement · restoration
Curative mental treatment
- medicineCurative substance or practice
- biotechnologyEngineering using living systems
- cloningMaking identical copies
- in vitroIn an artificial environment
culture · biobank · clinical trial · drug screening · organoid · scaffold · transplantation · ethics
embryonic
At earliest developmental stage
- blastocystEarly developmental stage before implantation
- differentiationRecognizing meaningful differences
- reprogrammingAltering original functional instructions
induced · totipotent · multipotent · lineage · progenitor · naïve · primed · colony · feeder · passage
embryo
Organism before birth
- gastrulationEmbryo forms primary layers
- morphogenesisDevelopmental shape emergence
- ectodermEmbryo's outer cell layer
mesoderm · endoderm · organogenesis · germinal · ontogeny · fate · specification · commitment · determination · patterning
tissue
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growth · transdifferentiation · planaria · axolotl · reconstitution · remodeling · therapeutic · replacement · restoration · grafting
therapy
Curative mental treatment
- medicineCurative substance or practice
- biotechnologyEngineering using living systems
- cloningMaking identical copies
in vitro · culture · biobank · clinical trial · drug screening · organoid · scaffold · transplantation · ethics · regulation
- cell termscellular, cytoplasmic, nuclear, mitotic, eukaryotic
- stem cellsstem cells, stem cell, embryonic stem cell, embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells
- embryologyembryo, zygote, embryology, blastocyst, embryogenesis
- tissue stateshealthy, diseased, inflamed, necrotic, viable
pluripotentspecialized
Adapted for particular function
committed · differentiated · mature · somatic · determined