Stem cells, plasticity and cancer - uncomfortable bed fellows
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Stem cells, plasticity and cancer - uncomfortable bed fellows.
Stem cell research is a vibrant and rapidly moving field of science that investigates self-renewing cells in the adult and embryo. Two debates currently exist in the stem cell field concerning the transcriptional redirection of stem cell differentiation and fate, and the reorganization of cell commitment through nuclear reprogramming caused by cell fusion and nuclear transfer. The recent Keysto...
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عنوان ژورنال: Development
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1477-9129,0950-1991
DOI: 10.1242/dev.01233