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Embryonic Stem Cells Essay

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Stem cells
Stem cells are a type of cells that are responsible for the renewal and the regeneration of damaged and ageing tissues. Stem cells can be divided into two categories: Embryonic Stem cells and Adult stem cells also known as Somatic stem cells. Embryonic stem cells can be retrieve from the foetus, amniotic fluid, the placenta, and the umbilical cord blood and in the early embryo. Adult stem cells can be retrieved from many other parts of the body once a child has been born and through to adulthood. Those parts of the body are skin, hair follicles, bone marrow and blood, brain and spinal cord, the lining of the nose, gut, lung, joint fluid, muscle, fat, menstrual blood and etc. Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent, which mean they can develop into any of the 220 different body cells while adult stem cells only be able to develop into muscle, bone marrow and brain cells.

Why are stem cells are so special for the purposes of scientific research?
Stem cells are so special because of its three unique properties, which could help …show more content…

The transplants are preformed by retrieving the umbilical cord from a newborn baby shortly after they are born. The retrieved umbilical cords are kept frozen until they are needed for any other medical procedures or research. Retrieving an umbilical cord does not harm the mother or the child in any way.

Stem cell from embryo
Embryonic Stem cells are retrieved from a Vitro fertilisation embryo, which means it is retrieved from an embryo that is grown on a lab instead of a female body. Later on it will be kept frozen for future medical procedures or research. In order to grow stem cells the blastocyst has to be removed by the scientist and grow them in a nutrient-rich solution in a Petri dish in the laboratory. The stem cell than

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