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• a  having the ability to give rise to unlike cells
  embryonic stem cells are totipotent

• One theory is that their bodies contain undifferentiated, "totipotent" cells capable of growing into any organ under some unexplained architectural guidance.
• Scientists have long known from animal studies that cells in these pre-embryos are totipotent (that is, capable of taking any subsequent form, from skin to bone marrow) and more or .

News & Articles

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• TotipotentRX Corporation and ThermoGenesis Corp. Report Statistically Significant Phase Ib Clinical Trial Results in ...
  RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. and LOS ANGELES -- ThermoGenesis Corp. a cellular therapy medical device company and TotipotentRX Corporation, a clinical-stage regenerative medicine company developing novel therapies ...
  Jan. 21, 2014 - GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Julian Savulescu in Cosmos
  I cannot see any intrinsic, morally significant difference between a mature skin cell, the totipotent stem cell derived from it, and a fertilised egg,argues Savulescu. "They are all cells which could give rise to a person if certain...