ABSTRACT
For therapeutic and regenerative medicine applications, both multipotent and pluripotent stem cells oer a great promise. Pluripotent stem cells can dierentiate into cells from any of the three germ layers formed during embryogenesis: the ectoderm, mesoderm, or endoderm. As a result, pluripotent stem cells can potentially give rise to any adult cell type (Cameron et al. 2006). Stem cells with such pluripotency
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