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bipotential

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bipotential [¦bī·pə′ten·chəl]
(biology)
Having the potential to develop in either of two mutually exclusive directions.


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Are we born truly malleable, fully bipotential, and it is experience and social context that give our gender identity form?
These results suggest that OP advanced the stage at which the bipotential gonad differentiates into a morphologically distinct ovary or testis.
The research, which appears today online (ahead of print) in the journal Nature Methods, by Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) and its collaborators, describes an efficient method for generating large numbers of bipotential progenitors--known as hemangioblasts--from hES cells that are capable of differentiating into blood vessels, as well as into all blood and immune cell lineages.
 
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