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embryonic stem cell
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embryonic stem cell [‚em·brē¦än·ik ′stem ‚sel]
(embryology)
Undifferentiated cell derived from the inner cell mass of the blastocyst that can give rise to any of the three embryonic germ layers, and thus can form any cell or tissue type of the body, but cannot give rise to the full spectrum of cells required to complete fetal development.


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This publication is believed to be the first in which germ-line transmission from rat ES cells has been definitively demonstrated.
Without ES cells it is impossible to perform precise genetic modifications for the creation of the disease model we want," he says.
High-quality mouse ES cells are expected to be important and valuable for drug target validation and drug screening efforts.
 
 
 
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