Totipotent stem cells were the most wondrous cells in human development. They could differentiate into the cells of all kinds of tissues and organs, possessing unlimited differentiation potential.
After totipotent stem cells came pluripotent stem cells → multipotent stem cells → unipotent stem cells → adult stem cells. The familiar fertilized egg, for example, was a totipotent stem cell in its most initial form.
Starting from a fertilized egg, it gradually divided into an embryo, then differentiated into organs and tissues, and finally developed into a complete human body after a long gestation.
The entire process was just like the account of the "universe's" creation in Laozi's Tao Te Ching: "The Dao gives birth to one, one gives birth to two, two gives birth to three, and three gives birth to all things."
After all, through the enhanced [inner vision] of his [Communicating with the Nether and Perceiving the Subtle] state, Chen Jue had long known that a cellular universe inhabited by a sky full of deities existed within his body.
And the initial state of these cellular universes was the human fertilized egg.
The entire process of a fertilized egg developing into a human was actually extremely similar to the Big Bang Theory that scientists were currently studying.
The Big Bang view held that the universe had evolved from a primordial state of extremely high density and temperature a finite time in the past, then continuously expanded into its present state, filled with all kinds of galaxies, planets, and so on.
If the universe's starting point was regarded as a fertilized egg, then the universe began expanding and evolving with the egg's first division. In certain respects, the entire process closely matched the cellular universe within his body that Chen Jue had seen through [inner vision].
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