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Sciences > Disease & Illness The potential of stem cells

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Stem cells have the potential of becoming any cell in the human body. Embryonic stem cells are present after fertilization and the first cellular divisions begin to produce an organism; the embryo transitions through 4- and 8-cell blastocyst stages. These few cells eventually become every tissue and structure in the body through cell division and differentiation, called pluripotency. There are also stem cells in these differentiated tissues, adult stem cells, which may or may not have this same capacity. However, they do have the capacity to regenerate the particular tissue of which they ar...

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