Versatile organic building block (4,4)

I believe the answer is:

stem cell

(Other definitions for stem cell that I've seen before include "Undifferentiated functional unit in an organism" , "Versatile building block of life" , "Generalised producer in living organism" , "biological germ" , "body-builder" .)

I've seen this clue in the Universal.

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