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Human embryonic stem cells as a powerful tool for studying human embryogenesis.
Pediatric research - 1 Aug 2006
Dvash Tamar, Ben-Yosef Dalit, Eiges Rachel
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Human embryonic stem cells (HESC) are pluripotent stem cell lines derived from the inner cell mass (ICM) of human blastocyst-stage embryos. They are characterized by their unlimited capacity to self-renew in culture. In addition, they have a broad developmental potential, as demonstrated by their ability to form practically any cell type in vivo and in vitro. These two features have made HESC extremely important...
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