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(redirected from inner cell mass)

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Once a fertilized egg has gone through several rounds of division, stem cells form a bulge, called the inner cell mass, inside the early embryo.
The cells in the inner cell mass grow to become a panda fetus.
All cells of the early human embryo are totipotent until shortly after the blastocyst stage, including the cells of the inner cell mass and even the primitive germ-line cells.
 
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