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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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2024
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/153773 |