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Pluripotency
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Cell potency.
Pluripotency
A pluripotent stem cell (Latin: pluripotentia, lit. 'ability for many [things]') is a stem cell that has the potential to differentiate into any of the cells of the three germ layers: endoderm (gut, lungs and liver), mesoderm (muscle, skeleton, blood vascular, urogenital, dermis), or ectoderm (nervous, sensory, epidermis), but not into extra-embryonic tissues like the placenta or yolk sac.