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How is a pluripotent stem cell different from a multipotent stem cell?

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Pluripotent cells can give rise to all the cells types in the body, like is the case of the embryonic stem cells that are considered pluripotent. While the multipotent cells can turn into more than one cell type, but are more limited than a pluripotent cell, the blood stem cells are a example of these kind of cells. Therefore, pluripotent cells can be differentiated in any kind, but multipotent don't

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