An undifferentiated cell of a multicellular organism which is capable of giving rise to indefinitely more cells of the same type, and from which certain other kinds of cell arise by differentiation.
Example sentencesExamples
- However, the blood cells are actually from a different origin than the mesenchymal stem cell.
- Each of the stem cells then divided into two cells - a stem cell and a nerve cell.
- This partly explains the pressure in the EU to fund embryonic stem cell research.
- It had been widely predicted that the committee would decide in favour of continuing research into embryonic stem cells.
- A stem cell is a special type of body cell that gives rise to other types of specialized cells.