ML, offers a standard way of representing, and exchanging, the wealth of information contained in a variety of organ and cell models.

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As the source of every cell, tissue and organ in the body, their medical application has the potential to repair damaged tissue, regrow internal organs and cure currently incurable diseases like cystic fibrosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

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Researchers highly value embryonic stem cells because of their potential to turn into any organ or tissue cell in the body.

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Certainly, the brain has many more different types of cell in it than any other organ.

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One of the great promises of stem cell research is the potential to end the need for organ transplants by actually growing new organs from the DNA of the host.

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This combined treatment created a kind of "peacekeeping" immune cell, which appeared able to avert the attack on the foreign organ.

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