How to Use pluripotent in a Sentence

pluripotent

adjective

• These induced pluripotent stem cells, as they are called, are to be created from the patients themselves.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 17 May 2018
• The beating heart cells, called cardiomyocytes, featured in the experiment were grown from pluripotent stem cells.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 June 2021
• To grow the organoid, the scientists started with induced pluripotent stem cells, which are created from mature human cells drawn from blood or skin.
  — WIRED, 2 Feb. 2023
• While immune-matching can be achieved through patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells, this process takes time and is costly.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 May 2017
• The cardioids begin as pluripotent stem cells, which have the potential to turn into any cell in the body given the right instructions from the environment.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 May 2021
• Called organoids, these cells are made from human skin tissue, which is put into a culture dish and turned into pluripotent stem cells, Loring explained.
  — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Aug. 2022
• To grow its organoids, a team at the University of California, San Diego, used human induced pluripotent stem cells.
  — Bret Stetka, Scientific American, 29 Aug. 2019
• These findings show that human pluripotent stem cells can become part of ungulate embryos, but the process is not very efficient.
  — Study Summaries, Scientific American, 17 May 2023
• With just a small amount of skin cells called fibroblasts, scientists can grow these so-called induced pluripotent stem cells, then direct them to form human brain tissue.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Apr. 2018
• The usual method for making these cells, called induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cells, is to reprogram them by inserting four genes carried by viruses.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• Terskikh, for his part, is working on regenerating hair from scratch using things like pluripotent stem cells.
  — Popular Science, 27 Jan. 2020
• For the new study, the researchers began by creating a ball of pluripotent stem cells, which possess the ability to develop into any type of bodily cell and tissue.
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 27 June 2019
• Theoretically, this can be done by turning frozen rhino cells into cells that can transform into any cell of the body, called pluripotent stem cells.
  — Alessandra Potenza, The Verge, 6 Apr. 2018
• Other researchers grew organoids from induced pluripotent stem cells, which resemble embryonic stem cells but are grown from adult cells.
  — Gunjan Sinha, Science | AAAS, 23 Aug. 2017
• In the study, published Thursday in Science, Paşca’s team coaxed human induced pluripotent stem cells into 3-D cultures mimicking the earliest stage of two parts of the forebrain.
  — Simon Makin, Scientific American, 24 Jan. 2020
• By introducing changes in pluripotent stem cells, researchers can also alter the epigenetic profile expressed in them and the adult cells derived from them.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 May 2017
• The cells are induced pluripotent stem cells, a type which could be used to create and test potential treatments tailored to an individual, according to a statement from Cedars-Sinai.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 July 2022
• This is a limitation of embryonic stem cells and their act-alike invention, induced pluripotent stem cells.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
• Using pluripotent stem cells allows scientists to implant new cells in an embryo from a very early stage in development.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2021
• The realization led him to develop a method for creating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from mature cells.
  — Karen Weintraub, Discover Magazine, 29 Apr. 2019
• Lane Turner/Globe Staff The microscopic view of a blood sample taken from one of the centenarians after it is reprogrammed to become a pluripotent stem cell.
  — Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
• The ability of an immature cell type to be pluripotent, meaning able to develop into any cell type the jellyfish needs, is at the core of rejuvenation, Dr. Graham said.
  — Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022
• The Church lab’s key discovery was identifying a pair of proteins — known as transcription factors — that reprogram pluripotent stem cells into ovary building blocks in just five days.
  — Ryan Cross, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2023
• Church’s lab recently published a massive library of transcription factors — the recipes for nudging pluripotent stem cells into becoming almost any type of cell.
  — Matthew Herper, STAT, 16 Sep. 2021
• Induced pluripotent stem cells do not carry the ethical objection many have to using human embryonic stem cells.
  — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• The others came from pluripotent stem cells derived from Huntington’s patients, through a Nobel-winning technique that reverts ordinary skin or other adult cells back to an embryonic state.
  — Sharon Begley, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2019
• The development of organoids has been made possible by two bioengineering breakthroughs: induced pluripotent stem cells and 3D cell culturing techniques.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Apr. 2023
• Furthermore, immune cells can also be generated from pluripotent stem cells.
  — Demaris Mills, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• His landmark findings about creating induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have only recently been applied to studying mental illness as the field has matured.
  — Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American, 27 Feb. 2018
• In the short window between fertilization and implantation, embryonic stem cells are pluripotent, gifted with the ability to become any cell type.
  — Celia Ford, WIRED, 17 July 2023

Last Updated: 15 Oct 2024