Differentiation Out of Control (With Experiment) | Embryology

In experiments of disaggregation and re-aggregation of embryonic cells, there sometimes arise complexes in which differently differentiated tissues are present in chaotic arrangement, having no relation, or only a slight relation, to the arrangement of the same tissues in a normal individual. We have referred to such complexes as teratomas (Fig. 454). The term "teratoma," however, was originally coined to [...]