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THE SCIENCE OF STEM CELLS

fertilised embryo that nestles into the uterine wall holds mammoth amounts of potential. The cells destined to become a foetus at that moment all look alike and number in the mere hundreds. Yet the organism that will arise from this small enclave will one day boast trillions of cells and be composed of a plethora of specialist cell types. How can the multitude of different cell

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