Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent, depending on the number of cell types to which they can give rise. The discovery that the ageing of lung stem cells drives iron ...

Stem cell plasticity A fertilized egg cell is totipotent and can produce both all the cells of the ... During embryonic development, the pluripotent stem cells of the early embryo produce more ...

From totipotent stem cells at conception, to pluripotent, multipotent, oligopotent, and unipotent stem cells by adulthood – every disease essentially boils down to a dysfunction in the cells and ...

Furthermore, the restricted differentiation potential of these cells would have safety advantages compared with multipotent embryonic stem cells.

These cells are able to divide continuously. Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent ... Tissue stem cells are multipotent. This means that they can differentiate into any of the types of cell ...

This ability is made possible by pluripotent or multipotent stem cells, which can form (differentiate) almost all cell types of the body. The sea anemone Nematostella vectensis is also highly ...