Science is moving at such a rapid speed these days, between cloning, gene
therapy, miracle drugs, exotic therapies, etc. One of the most significant breakthroughs
came in November 1998, when two separate researchers successfully isolated stem
cells from human embryos and aborted fetuses. Stem cells are primordial cells of a
human organism, which are capable of becoming all or most of the 210 different kinds
of tissues in the human body. Stem cells have been defined as not fully differentiated
yet to be any particular type of tissue or cell. They range from "totipotent, i.e. ( the
early stages of the human embryo up to about 4 days after conception.) To pluripotent
I.e. (a bit older and therefore only capable of being some cells or tissues in the
body.) As in the 5-7 day blastocyst stage of the early embryo, with decreasing
capacity in later stages of fetal development and in human beings.
The impassioned hopes are that these stem cells can......

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