What Is Stem Cell Research?
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What Is Stem Cell Research?
In a nutshell, as we know, stem cells are cells within an organism that have start out their life as undifferentiaed cells.
For instance, eye cells and heart cells are effectively the same genetically within one organism. Test the DNA of one and you see essentially the same DNA as the other.
However, these 2 different cell types have differentiated to fill two very different roles. One to see with, and another to pump blood with....
Stem Cell Research is the study of how cells actually differentiate, to become with an organism the different cells that make up the body.
The goal of Stem Cell Research is simply to find ways of producing stem cells and further causing the differentation of stem cells to treat different diseases and disordered.
Posted on February 21, 2005 04:22 PM