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adj. - Having experienced or undergone the loss of specialization in form or function.

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  • The hebephrenic--the most severely dedifferentiated of all schizophrenic patients
  • At the most extreme dedifferentiated state embryonic stem cells are so dedifferentiated that they have the ability to become all more specialized cell types.
  • But in the new research, scientists added genes to mature cells that turned back their cellular clocks, or dedifferentiated them, restoring them to an immature,...
  • IF we figure out how to turn adult stem cells – what GW is supporting here – into embryonic stem cells, that is cells that are dedifferentiated to the point that they...
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