Rhonda Patrick· PhD
who discovered the human placenta is a rich source of pluripotent stem cells that can form many other cell types
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who discovered the human placenta is a rich source of pluripotent stem cells that can form many other cell types
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The human placenta is a source of stem cells that can form muscle to brain cells yet is thrown away after delivery.
In addition to these hematopoietic stem cells, the placenta also has the capacity to form pluripotent stem cells, which means, these stem cells can form any type of cell in the body including blood cells, immune cells, muscle cells, lung cells, liver cells, kidney cells, brain cells.
if you do that properly, you can tease out of those placentas cells that can become any kind of cell in your body.
So, that is that multipotency or pluripotency like you talked about. So, in other words, the pluripotent or multipotent essentially means that you have the potency, so you can, to become multi, so you can become anything.
And then, you get cells like look like neurons or you get cells that look like heart cells, or whatever you have.