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Study identifies 5 genetic themes key to keeping stem cells in a primitive, flexible state

A team of Canadian scientists has identified 1,155 genes under the control of a gene called Oct4 considered to be the master regulator of the stem cell state. The study will be published in the June 20 edition of the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE.

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