renew

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This finding shows that AFKL cells have the ability to self-renew, a key characteristic of stem cells.

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  1. transitive verb To make new or as if new again; restore: renewed the antique chair.
  2. transitive verb To take up again; resume: renew an old friendship; renewed the argument.
  3. transitive verb To repeat so as to reaffirm: renew a promise.

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  1. Middle English renewen : re-, re- + newen, to renew (from new, new; see new).

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  1. from Middle English renewen, renuen; from re- + new, v. Cf. renovate.
 

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/rəˈnju/
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