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 ... During embryonic development, the pluripotent stem cells of the early embryo produce more specialized, multipotent ...

Stem cells have traditionally been characterized as either embryonic (pluripotent ... cell biology have provided strong evidence that multipotent cells exist in many adult organs; that they ...

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 ...

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 ...