“Seed” Enhancers Seize Control during Stem Cell Development

June 10, 2014

(Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News) – A pluripotent stem cell may be imagined to be in a state of readiness—ready to differentiate into any of the cell types that exist in the body. But stem cells don’t pass through developmental stages only after differentiation begins. Stem cell pluripotency itself is fairly dynamic. For example, pluripotent stem cells pass through at least two distinct developmental stages: naïve embryonic stem cells and primed epiblast stem cells.