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Potency

The term potency is used in many contexts. In this What is…?, developmental biologist Kim Mace outlines its use to describe the ability of animal cells to form different tissues and organs in the body

Figure 1 Stem cell division outcomes. (a) Symmetric self-renewing division, increases the number of stem cells, (b) non-self-renewing, decreases the number of stem cells, (c) asymmetric self-renewing division is a mix of both, and keeps the number of stem cells the same

Potency

Embryonic stem cells

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