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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Examples of specializing

specializing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The remaining fourteen had moved into private enterprise, mostly with firms specializing in the field of their former ministries.
Except for temporary financial support, all these formally recognized needs belong to well-established government agencies specializing in different domains.
In the second phase, the data collection included 70 expert nurses who at the time of the study were specializing in tissue viability.
They also show partial evaluation which can then be used to generate instrumented programs by specializing these instrumented interpreters with respect to subject programs.
As a result, a new multi-billion dollar industry - the life insurance industry, specializing in annuities - has developed, practically from scratch.
For instance, specializing a word in only certain categories.
Partial evaluation is a program transformation technique for specializing a program with respect to some known part of its input.
The specialization pattern describes information about the arguments used in specializing the function.
But we can avoid it by specializing the conversion operation for intersection where no subtracting states appear in compound states.
Specializing the translation with respect to an incoming program results in an optimized, secured program.
There were also songs specializing in physiology, anatomy, anthropology, zoology, mineralogy, astronomy, botany, and chemistry.
Specializing again we now focus on billiards in rational polygons.
Dealers specializing in a single product, such as rice, oil or charcoal, also increased in number.
Specializing an interpreter with respect to a fixed set of monitor specifications automatically yields an interpreter instrumented with monitoring actions.
Reactions to the paper were invited from a number of distinguished economists specializing in either environmental or development issues.
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