Stem cells can be unipotent, multipotent, pluripotent or totipotent, depending on the number of cell types to which they can give rise. The field of biogerontology has established itself through ...

The plasticity of stem cells, or their ability to change into other cells, declines as the degree of specialization increases. A unipotent stem cell can develop into only one type of cell. During the ...

From totipotent stem cells at conception, to pluripotent, multipotent, oligopotent, and unipotent stem cells by adulthood – every disease essentially boils down to a dysfunction in the cells and ...

Depending on the tissue, the tissue renewing stem cells are either multipotent and can produce many types of specialized cells, or unipotent and can differentiate only into one type of cell. During ...

The introduction of reprogramming technologies (induced pluripotent stem cells and direct reprogramming ... into the desired multipotent or unipotent cells without involving a stage of pluripotency.