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becoming

(in the philosophy of Aristotle) any change from the lower level of potentiality to the higher level of actuality
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So far, Hwang has coaxed cells from the stem cell line he created into becoming all three of the basic tissue types--endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm--present in a developing embryo.
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