The key to developing this idea is to allow for a range of intermediate cell states between two extremes. (quantamagazine.org)
Lanza is also working with hemangioblasts, intermediate cells derived from embryos that can make all blood and vascular cell types. (discovermagazine.com)
The point is, we can use transient, intermediate cells like hemangioblasts as a toolbox to fix the adult so you don't have to have limbs amputated, so you may not have to go blind, to prevent heart attacks. (discovermagazine.com)