ＳＴＡＰ細胞すたっぷさいぼう

noun

STAP cell; stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency cell

A proposed type of pluripotent cell that was later disproven. The term is primarily of historical and scientific interest, often discussed in the context of the 2014 research controversy.

• ＳＴＡＰ細胞すたっぷさいぼうは、外がい部ぶからの刺し激げきによって多た能のう性せいを獲かく得とくするとされた細さい胞ぼうです。

  STAP cells were cells claimed to acquire pluripotency through external stimuli.

• ＳＴＡＰ細胞すたっぷさいぼうの論ろん文ぶんは後あとに撤てっ回かいされました。

  The paper on STAP cells was later retracted.