Stem cells

Cells that can renew themselves and give rise to specialized cells. Adult cells can be reprogrammed into stem-cell-like iPS cells.Source: Takahashi & Yamanaka, 2006

Also called iPS cells, induced pluripotent stem cells.

Structure

Stem cells and the 2 concepts it links to directly. Each link is described below.

How Stem cells connects

Stem cells is an example of

Level of life
Cell
The smallest unit that can live on its own. Every living thing is made of one or more cells.
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Stem cells is related to

Technology or method
Cloning
Producing a genetically identical copy. Dolly the sheep, reported in 1997, was cloned from an adult cell.

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Sources & further reading

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Induction of pluripotent stem cells from mouse embryonic and adult fibroblast cultures by defined factors (opens the original in a new tab)
Takahashi K, Yamanaka S (2006). Cell 126:663-676.
Peer-reviewedPrimary research
- DOI 10.1016/j.cell.2006.07.024 (Open the publisher's version via its DOI, opens in a new tab)
- PMID 16904174 (Open the PubMed record, opens in a new tab)