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U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Stem Cells

    Relatively undifferentiated cells that retain the ability to divide and proliferate throughout postnatal life to provide progenitor cells that can differentiate into specialized cells.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of stem cells in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of stem cells in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of stem cells in a Sentence

  1. Kapil Bharti:

    While researchers have used embryonic stem cell derived cells to treat age-related macular degeneration, (the RIKEN study) is the first study that used induced pluripotent stem cells.

  2. Douglas Higgs:

    A major question hanging over this approach, which is hugely expensive, is whether this procedure, which involves killing off abnormal stem cells to replace them with modified stem cells, will ever become clinically possible in developing countries where the majority of these disorders of hemoglobin occur.

  3. David Hutchon:

    When it comes to labor management practices, we need to find a better way of testing for the cord blood gases as well as getting billions of stem cells out of the cord and placenta after the baby has had its physiological transition and a normal blood volume, we're getting closer to finding a solution but we're just not there yet.

  4. Alexis Thompson:

    If we can envision treating patients as if the patients were their own donors, they are not exposed to some of the risks that come from transplants when you're using someone else's stem cells, relatively speaking, this procedure was well-tolerated by the patients, with no unexpected toxicities related to gene therapy.

  5. Thomas Rando:

    Usually, most laboratory-grown muscle stem cells die when transplanted, but these cells are in a deep resting state we call ketone-induced deep quiescence that allows them to withstand many kinds of stress.


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