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What is a stem cell?

What is a stem cell? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (medicine) A primal undifferentiated cell from which a variety of other cells can develop through the process of cellular differentiation.
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The stem cell lines also retain the ability, throughout the culture, to differentiate into tissue-derived endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm.
That statement assailed his position against abortion, contraception, sterilization, women's rights, divorce, stem cell research and gay rights.
We should not be expecting instant medical miracles from stem cell research.
Yet the rejection of his predecessor's religious conservative approach to the stem cell issue was total.
In response, he had additional chemotherapy and an autologous stem cell transplant later that year.
One of the patients attending the unit that day was a man who had received an allogeneic stem cell transplant nine months earlier.

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