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U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Stem Cells

    Relatively undifferentiated cells that retain the ability to divide and proliferate throughout postnatal life to provide progenitor cells that can differentiate into specialized cells.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of stem cells in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of stem cells in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of stem cells in a Sentence

  1. David Hutchon:

    When it comes to labor management practices, we need to find a better way of testing for the cord blood gases as well as getting billions of stem cells out of the cord and placenta after the baby has had its physiological transition and a normal blood volume, we're getting closer to finding a solution but we're just not there yet.

  2. Insoo Hyun:

    People are trying very hard to transition out of using stem cells from fetuses but to make that transition, it will take some time.

  3. Paula Grisanti:

    This is the future of health care, using your own stem cells to fix problems, not drugs, but clinics that make over-the-top claims that a single stem-cell therapy will cure ALS or Parkinson’s or other diseases raise huge safety and ethical concerns. It gives the whole field a black eye.

  4. Chris Mason:

    If the AMD trials are successful, then by using embryonic stem cells as the starting material, the therapy can then be affordably manufactured at large scale.

  5. Kapil Bharti:

    Data from 10 to 12 patients is needed to show that the implanted cells are indeed safe, while researchers have used embryonic stem cell derived cells to treat age-related macular degeneration, (the RIKEN study) is the first study that used induced pluripotent stem cells.


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