progenitor
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The scientists also identified important differences in when certain progenitor cell characteristics and behaviors emerge during development.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
The team next investigated whether these expandable progenitor cells could be programmed to fight cancer.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Overall, the treatment appeared to push cartilage toward a younger biological state without recruiting stem or progenitor cells.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
"We've shown for the first time that the front of the brain arises from a totally different progenitor cell than the back of the brain," said Kyle Loh, PhD, associate professor of developmental biology.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026
It makes the progenitor of all this group of insecticides, DDT, seem by comparison almost harmless.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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This result suggests that renewable, genetically engineered immune cell progenitors might eventually have applications beyond cancer, including treatments for inherited immune deficiencies and potentially infectious diseases.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Much in the same way Slate was early to formats that would come to dominate digital publishing—explainers, deliberately counterintuitive arguments, chat podcasts—so too were we early progenitors of the internet listicle.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026
Those animals were the progenitors of the vast Native American pony herds of later centuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
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 ● Dec. 26, 2025
Many of these late-stage fruit trees posed a further problem in that their wild progenitors were the opposite of self-pollinating.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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