Branching out: how a planarian neoblast generates cellular diversity

The extraordinary regenerative capacity of planarians is derived from their large population of pluripotent stem cells called neoblasts. Neoblasts are a heterogenous population of stem cells that begin unspecified, but are rapidly specified within a single cell cycle and give rise to every cell in t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: King, Hunter O.
Other Authors: Reddien, Peter W.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153773