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
  • Terskikh, for his part, is working on regenerating hair from scratch using things like pluripotent stem cells.
    — Popular Science, 27 Jan. 2020
  • The beating heart cells, called cardiomyocytes, featured in the experiment were grown from pluripotent stem cells.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 25 June 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Furthermore, immune cells can also be generated from pluripotent stem cells.
    — Demaris Mills, Forbes, 10 Aug. 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • To produce it, researchers start with self-renewing cells, such as embryonic or pluripotent stem cells, from animal tissue.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2 June 2018
  • 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
  • The therapies rely on induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells — adult cells that are reprogrammed back into a stem-cell-like state.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 20 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Human pluripotent stem cells, capable of transforming into any cell type, were treated with a unique chemical mix at a precise stage of their development.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • In a new study, the team grew miniature human spinal cords from induced pluripotent stem cells and then deliberately injured them to replicate key features of traumatic spinal cord damage.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The tissues researchers generate from pluripotent stem cells can provide a unique source for personalized medicine from transplantation to novel drug discovery.
    — Mo Ebrahimkhani, The Conversation, 7 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Another approach would take advantage of recent breakthroughs in manipulating a kind of stem cell called induced pluripotent stem cells, which can be generated from other adult cells.
    — Daniel Fernandez, Smithsonian, 22 May 2018
  • 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
  • Into this scaffold, the research team introduced human cells that had been reprogrammed using molecular biology techniques into pluripotent stem cells.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Nov. 2025
  • Banking healthy younger cells can also enable future therapies with induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology.
    — Salvatore Viscomi, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Unlike conventional organoid methods that rely on induced pluripotent stem cells or embryonic stem cells, the new technique avoids single-cell dissociation entirely.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Jan. 2026
  • 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

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