Now, I understand that cancer derives from a normal body cell, but it seems kind of a stretch to say that we're all born with cancer cells.
This promotes recovery of the use of your muscles, but it also places added stress on the nerve cell body to nourish the additional fibers.
That is, the cell could be "coached" into becoming any type of tissue or cell in the body.
Every cell inside the body holds 46 tiny bundles of DNA called chromosomes, 23 from mom, 23 from dad.
Embryonic stem cells are "blank" or undifferentiated cells that can develop into any type of cell in the body.
Researchers highly value embryonic stem cells because of their potential to turn into any organ or tissue cell in the body.
Stem cells derived from umbilical cords are less versatile than embryonic stem cells, which could conceivably replace any cell in the body.
Embryonic stem cells are blank cells found in four- to five-day-old embryos, which have the ability to turn into any cell in the body.
About one in 200 children are born with faulty mitochondria - the tiny power stations which provide energy to every cell in the body.
Then the nucleus of a cell -- any cell in the body -- is taken from the individual to be cloned and inserted into the egg.
"Alcohol is a worthless drug that affects every single cell in your body, " says Harris Stratyner, director of addiction recovery services at Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Under the right conditions, these cells can replenish themselves indefinitely in the laboratory, and they can, in theory, turn into any type of cell in the body.
They took a sample of human skin cells and converted it into stem cells, which are capable of becoming any other type of cell in the body.
At this stage the structure, though still just a featureless ball of cells, has started to differentiate into the body's three basic cell types (known as endoderm, mesoderm and ectoderm).
What scientists have been looking for are proteins which are found on the tumour cells - but not on every other cell of the body - which provoke some sort of immune response.
On Monday, the 2012 prize for medicine or physiology was awarded to John Gurdon from the UK and Shinya Yamanaka from Japan for changing adult cells into stem cells, which can become any other type of cell in the body.
He was part of a team investigating the use of stem cells, which are able to become any other type of cell in the body from nerve to bone, taken from the amniotic fluid which surrounds a developing foetus in the womb.
The iPS cells, which have many of the same basic properties, do not raise the same ethical questions as embryonic stem cells because they come from skin or now fat cells that have been reprogrammed to go back in time, so to speak, and have the ability to turn into any other kind of cell in the body.
First came the remarkable work of Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University, who showed it was possible, by activating just four genes, to take a mature cell (he used a bit of skin but other cells would work) and turn it into the equivalent of an embryonic stem cell with the potential to become any other cell in the body of mouse or human.
Manufacturers of many popular cell phones already warn consumers to keep their device away from their body and medical experts say there other ways to minimize cell phone radiation.
Lower body temperatures are known to slow cell death and swelling caused by severe brain injuries.
Then the nucleus of a cell taken from the body of the person to be cloned would be transferred into the shell.
Then the nucleus of a cell taken from the body of the person to be cloned would be inserted into the shell.
Induced pluripotent stem cells can come from any cell in the human body, including skin cells, so they don't have the moral quandaries surrounding them.
The CNN crew reported that during a visit to the hospital, they found a dead body locked up in a seclusion cell with a patient.
They used stem cells from a human embryo, which are capable of becoming any other type of cell in the human body from nerve to skin, muscle to kidney.
Embryonic stem cells are seen by many researchers as having great potential because they can in theory be coaxed to create any kind of cell type in the body.
All that says is that any one bit of DNA is going to have something bound to it at some point in some cell in the human body, or may even be transcribed.
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Embryonic stem cells are advantageous in research because they can be grown more easily than adult stem cells in a culture, and are pluripotent, meaning they can develop into any of the various cell types of the body, according to the National Institutes of Health.
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