Stem cell research

Stem cell research

Stem cell research is the study of stem cells which are biological cells found in all multicellular organisms that grow into all forms of cells and multiply by themselves.

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Stem cell research

Reproductive cloning

Medical; Stem cell research

The use of cloning technology to create a child.

Regenerative medicine

Medical; Stem cell research

Reconstruction of diseased or injured tissue by activation of resident cells or by cell transplantation.

The master cells of the body that contain all the genetic information needed to create all the cells of the body and the placenta. Totipotent cells exist only in the first three to four divisions of ...

Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)

Medical; Stem cell research

The replacement of genetic material (nuclear DNA) in an unfertilized egg with genetic material from an adult somatic cell (e.g., skin cell). Stem cells that genetically match the adult somatic cell ...

Somatic cells

Medical; Stem cell research

Cells from the body other than sperm or egg cells.

Stem cell

Medical; Stem cell research

A cell that can continuously produce unaltered daughters and also has the ability to produce daughter cells that have different, more restricted properties.