Animal pole cells isolated from
blastula stage embryos are pluripotent.
When cultured in isolation, pluripotent cells isolated from
blastula stage embryos autonomously form epidermis, loosing competence to form other structures.
Not exact matches
They transferred nuclei from very early
embryos — at the so - called
blastula stage — into eggs from which they had removed the nuclei.
This name refers to the fact that the early
embryo of bilaterians (the
blastula stage) is generally composed of three primary germ layers: the ectoderm (outer layer), the endoderm (inner layer), and the mesoderm (middle layer) between them.