specialized
To keep stem cells from specializing requires a carefully controlled lab environment.
The precursor cells are able to proliferate (continue to replicate) and specialize into different functions.
Adult cells have a more limited ability to specialize than embryonic cells.

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specialize | American Dictionary

specialize
verb[ I ]
us/ˈspeʃ·əˌlɑɪz/
to spend most of your time studying one particular subject or doing one type of work:
She’s a lawyer who specializes in accident cases.
The store specializes in Asian antiques.

specialized

adjectiveus/ˈspeʃ·əˌlɑɪzd/
Her job is very specialized.

specialize | Business English

specialize
verb[ I ]
(UK alsospecialise)uk /ˈspeʃəlaɪz/us
to spend most of your time studying one particular subject or doing one type of business:
specialize in sthThe bank has hired a trader to specialize in Southeast Asian and Latin American currencies.

Examples of specialize

specialize
The generating extension takes the values classified as static as parameters and returns the source program specialized with respect to these values.
The remaining fourteen had moved into private enterprise, mostly with firms specializing in the field of their former ministries.
Which events is dream experience really specialized in simulating?
The railways played a role in deciding which regions would specialize in woollen weaving.
The authors hypothesize that free trade allows developing countries to specialize in goods that are intensive in their relatively abundant factors: labor and natural resources.
Such inquiry requires that scholars interested in state-building and policy development engage with the work of those who specialize in political behavior.
For instance, in 1946 one specialized female worker earned practically the same as an unskilled worker.
However, the lack of status of this speciality evidently 'rubs off' on to students, so impeding commitment for many to specialize in this area.
Except for temporary financial support, all these formally recognized needs belong to well-established government agencies specializing in different domains.
In contrast, market-based systems favor new ideas with high profit opportunities, and should therefore be comparatively specialized in new industries with disruptive technological change.
For instance, a higher-order filtering function can be specialized according to the filtering predicate in addition to the element type of the filtered list.
In the second phase, the data collection included 70 expert nurses who at the time of the study were specializing in tissue viability.
Examples of intermediate goods include component parts, specialized machinery, and specialized labor services.
In such cases, the customers could be financial investors, typically private equity funds, specialized in high-risk investments.
The ' factories ' of crystalline material are comprised from seemingly specialized mitochondria and rough endoplasmic reticulum elements.
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