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Stem Cells Are Populations of Relatively Undifferentiated Cells Found in Most Adult Organisms. They Are Capable of

Stem cells are undifferentiated cells found in adult organisms that can replace themselves and differentiate into distinct cell types, allowing the body to develop and repair itself. Stem cells in bone marrow give rise to blood cells. Stem cells have potential medical importance as they can cure diseases and help healing through treatments like bone marrow transplants, where healthy stem cells are injected to replace a patient's immune system wiped out by radiation. Embryonic stem cells can develop into any cell type but their use raises ethical objections.

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Stem Cells Are Populations of Relatively Undifferentiated Cells Found in Most Adult Organisms. They Are Capable of

Stem cells are undifferentiated cells found in adult organisms that can replace themselves and differentiate into distinct cell types, allowing the body to develop and repair itself. Stem cells in bone marrow give rise to blood cells. Stem cells have potential medical importance as they can cure diseases and help healing through treatments like bone marrow transplants, where healthy stem cells are injected to replace a patient's immune system wiped out by radiation. Embryonic stem cells can develop into any cell type but their use raises ethical objections.

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Stem cells are populations of relatively undifferentiated cells found in most adult organisms.

They are capable of

replacing themselves by generating more stem cells, and can differentiate into one or more distinct cell types. They

are a normal part of the bodys ability to develop and to repair itself. For example, stem cells in bone marrow give

rise to the different types of blood cells.

Importance of stem cells in medicine is that they have the potential to cure diseases and help in healing.
For example, bone marrow transplants are used to treat patients with certain forms of cancer, such as leukemia.

When bone marrow from a healthy person is injected into the body of a patient who has had her/his immune

system wiped out via radiation, the stem cells within the transplanted marrow have the ability to proliferate and

differentiate into various types of blood cells within the body of the patient.
Cells taken from early embryos (embryonic stem cells) can be induced to develop into almost any kind of cell,

but there are ethical objections to using human embryos for this purpose.

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