Researchers Led by UCSB's James Thomson Find a Way for Pluripotent Stem Cells to Self-Renew

Immortal in the lab, pluripotent stem cells divide and grow indefinitely under the right conditions. This ability may also exist further down the development path with the workhorse progenitor cells - the "sons and daughters" of stem cells responsible for creating specific tissues.

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