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Reprogramming and Stemness.
Perspectives in biology and medicine - 1 Jan 2015
Laplane Lucie
Abstract excerpt
Reprogramming technologies show that cellular identity can be reprogrammed, challenging the classical conception of cell differentiation as an irreversible process. If non-stem cells can be reprogrammed into stem cells, then what is it to be a stem cell, and what kind of property is stemness? This article addresses this question both philosophically and biologically, states the different possibilities, and...
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