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The mechanism behind pluripotency -- stem cells’ potential to differentiate into all different cell types-- has been a significant focus of modern research. In 2009, Sui Hang et al. theorized that pluripotency is controlled by a cascade of tri-stable switches, a type of genetic network motif that maintains three unique expression states simultaneously. This year, the uOttawa iGEM team is constructing iGEM’s first functional tri-stable switch based upon this theoretical premise in order to ascertain the potential for tri-stable switches to function as a differentiation mechanism.

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