Stem vs Ipsc - What's the difference?
stem | ipsc |
The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
* Milton
* Herbert
A branch of a family.
* Shakespeare
An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
* Fuller
(botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
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A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
(linguistic morphology) The main part of an uninflected]] word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and [[declension, declensions derive from their stems.
(typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
(music) A vertical stroke of a symbol representing a note in written music.
(nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
To remove the stem from.
To be caused]] or [[derive, derived; to originate.
To descend in a family line.
To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
(obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
* Denham
* Alexander Pope
(skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
(biology) induced pluripotent stem cell
* 2009 , Essentials of stem cell biology , edition 2, Robert Paul Lanza (editor), page 30:
* 2010 , Michael Roßbach, Manal Hadenfeld, and Oliver Brüstle, Industrial Applications of Stem Cells'', in ''Translational Stem Cell Research: Issues Beyond the Debate , Kristina Hug, Göran Hermerén (editors), page 91:
* 2010 , G. Sun et al, in Biomaterials as Stem Cell Niche , Krishnendu Roy (editor), page 202:
* 2011 , M. A. Hayat (editor), Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells: Therapeutic Applications in Disease and Injury , volume 1, page 10:
As a noun stem
is (countable).stem
English
(wikipedia stem)Etymology 1
(etyl) stemn, .Noun
(en noun)- all that are of noble stem
- While I do pray, learn here thy stem / And true descent.
- This is a stem / Of that victorious stock.
- Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.
- After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem .
- the stem of an apple or a cherry
Derived terms
* brain stem * from stem to stern * stem cell * stemless * stemplot * unstemmedVerb
(stemm)- to stem''' cherries; to '''stem tobacco leaves
- The current crisis stems from the short-sighted politics of the previous government.
- As when two warlike Brigandines at sea, / With murdrous weapons arm'd to cruell fight, / Doe meete together on the watry lea, / They stemme ech other with so fell despight, / That with the shocke of their owne heedlesse might, / Their wooden ribs are shaken nigh a sonder
Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Cognate with German stemmen, Dutch stemmen, stempen; compare (stammer).Verb
(stemm)- to stem a tide
- [They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
- Stemmed the wild torrent of a barbarous age.
Synonyms
* (sense) to be due to, to arise from * See alsoEtymology 3
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English
(wikipedia iPSC) ===(en)=== (en-noun)- The fact that only a small fraction of cells infected with the reprogramming factors form iPSC colonies indicates that direct reprogramming is a stochastic process.
- One of the most promising routes in this regard is the generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC ) by reprogramming cells.
- ECs Derived from ESC and iPSC
- [...] the propensity of stem cells to form teratoma following transplantation is still another major obstacle in using iPSC for disease therapy.