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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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Once the saviour sibling is born, blood from the umbilical cord is collected and can then be used for a stem cell transplant.
For example a blood stem cell will go on to become a red blood cell, platelet or white blood cell.
That statement assailed his position against abortion, contraception, sterilization, women's rights, divorce, stem cell research and gay rights.
As for stem cell manipulation, the good doctor suggested we check back with him in a quarter-century or so.
We should not be expecting instant medical miracles from stem cell research.
The stem cell lines also retain the ability, throughout the culture, to differentiate into tissue-derived endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm.

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