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Induced pluripotent stem cell, an Uncommon card
Induced pluripotent stem cells are a type of pluripotent stem cell that can be generated directly from a somatic cell.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 85
- DEF
- 86
- Power
- 171
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 84,000
Power 171 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The iPSC technology was pioneered by Shinya Yamanaka and Kazutoshi Takahashi in Kyoto, Japan, who together showed in 2006 that the introduction of four specific genes, collectively known as Yamanaka factors, encoding transcription factors could convert somatic cells into pluripotent stem cells.
- Shinya Yamanaka was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize along with Sir John Gurdon "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent." Pluripotent stem cells hold promise in the field of regenerative medicine.
- Because they can propagate indefinitely, as well as give rise to every other cell type in the body, they represent a single source of cells that could be used to replace those lost to damage or disease.
Why it is Uncommon
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Text : Wikipedia, Induced pluripotent stem cell (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NIH Image Gallery from Bethesda, Maryland, USA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

