stemness
n.— «Yet the cells retain the critical feature of what regenerative biologists have taken to calling a cell’s “stemness”—the ability to keep replenishing its own ranks.» —“Stem cell offers hope for fixing heart damage” by Carl T. Hall San Francisco Chronicle (California) Feb. 10, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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