progenitor
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These signals help immature progenitor T cells develop into fully differentiated T cells.
From Science Daily
Its progenitors - who now can generate videos of literally anything in just a few minutes - have the potential to disrupt the lucrative influencer economy.
From BBC
One key conclusion of the research is that mining undifferentiated asteroids -- the primordial remnants of the solar system's formation considered the progenitor bodies of chondritic meteorites -- remains impractical for now.
From Science Daily
The number of apical progenitor cells, which are essential for building the cerebral cortex, was significantly lower.
From Science Daily
In earlier work at Johns Hopkins University, Marbán's laboratory developed a method to extract progenitor cells from human heart tissue.
From Science Daily
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