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- noun cytology An essential characteristic of a
stem cell that distinguishes it from ordinarycells
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Examples
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Shalom-Feuerstein R, Rivetti di Val Cervo P, Aberdam D, Knight RA, et al. (2008) miR-203 represses 'stemness' by repressing DeltaNp63.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Masako Osada et al. 2010
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When it's turned off, the cell starts to lose its "stemness".
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When it's turned off, the cell starts to lose its "stemness".
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The iPS cells were less efficient than the ES cells at incorporating into chimeric mice - a standard test of pluripotency, or 'stemness'.
Scientific American 2010
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When it's turned off, the cell starts to lose its "stemness".
Diabetes News from dLife.com - Diabetes Blog from dLife.com dLife TV 2010
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UNC researchers reveal how a protein called Tet1 helps stem cells keep their "stemness" in
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When it's turned off, the cell starts to lose its "stemness".
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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UNC researchers reveal how a protein called Tet1 helps stem cells keep their "stemness" in
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Fellows will continue our studies identifying novel markers and determinants of corneal epithelial "stemness".
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Myc has also been recently recognized as an important regulator of "stemness" as it is able both to activate an embryonic stem cell-like transcriptional module and, when ectopically expressed, to increase the cancer stem cell fraction and enhance tumorigenicity
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