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em·bry·oid

 (ĕm′brē-oid′)
n.
A mass of plant or animal cells that resembles an embryo.
adj.
Resembling an embryo.
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Human dental stem cell derived transgene-free iPSCs generate functional neurons via embryoid body-mediated and direct induction methods.
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Pfx (Invitrogen) was used to amplify gene open reading frames (ORFs) from 10-day Embryoid Body cDNAs of H1 or cDNAs bought from YouBio (China).
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(2007) found that undifferentiated cell clusters including embryonic stem (ES) cells, embryoid bodies and mouse 11-day embryos had expression profiles of miRNAs that were simpler than those of mature somatic cells.
It has been reported that hESCs first form embryoid bodies which are basically structured with three germ layers.
Immunofluorescence of hiPSCs, embryoid bodies (EBs), and hiPSC-derived DA neurons is described in Supplementary Materials and Methods.
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