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| | PCBE: Transcripts (November 16, 2006): Session Session 1: Stem Cell Research Update |
 | | Now, these cells that give rise to the three germ layers, ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm, and the germ cell lineage, these are the pluripotential cells that are in the focus of science and also public discussions, and both together, the pluripotential cells and the germ cells, comprise the mammalian germline. |
 | | You have cells that make themselves again at more different stage of cells, but there are different levels of stem cells, and you can take the first cells, the mother of all stem cells, the oocyte, that after being fertilized forms a zygote, which is totipotent. |
 | | The pioneer of transplantation of germline stem cells is Ralph Brinster. |
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