{"id":9156,"date":"2019-05-22T16:15:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/stem_cells\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:15:32","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:15:32","slug":"stem_cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/stem_cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Stem cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Undifferentiated embryonic or adult cells that have the potential to give rise to any type of differentiated cells. &nbsp;There are three basic sorts of stem cells:&nbsp;multipotent (give rise to only specific types of cells), pluripotent (can form most kinds of tissue, but not a whole organism), and totipotent (can form a whole organism as well as the placenta).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"cell\">Cell<\/a>, <a href=\"cell_theory\">Cell theory<\/a>, <a href=\"determination\">Determination<\/a>, <a href=\"differentiation_-embryology-\">Differentiation (embryology)<\/a>, Ependymal cells, <a href=\"equipotentiality\">Equipotentiality<\/a>, Progenitor cells<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undifferentiated embryonic or adult cells that have the potential to give rise to any type of differentiated cells. &nbsp;There are three basic sorts of stem cells:&nbsp;multipotent (give rise to only specific types of cells), pluripotent (can form most kinds of tissue, but not a whole organism), and totipotent (can form a whole organism as well &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/stem_cells\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stem cells&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-9156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}