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the use of cloning technology to help in the search for possible cures and treatments for diseases and disabilities.

Domain: Medical; Category: Stem cell research

Unproven notion that different stem cells are regulated by common genes and mechanisms.

Domain: Medical; Category: Stem cell research

A cell that can continuously produce unaltered daughters and also has the ability to produce daughter cells that have different, more restricted properties.

Domain: Medical; Category: Stem cell research

Stem cells that have been growing in cell culture for six or more months without becoming specialized and appear genetically normal.

Domain: Medical; Category: Stem cell research

Cells from the body other than sperm or egg cells.

Domain: Medical; Category: Stem cell research

Any of the cells of a plant or animal other than germ cells (reproductive cells)

Domain: Medical; Category: Stem cell research

The replacement of genetic material (nuclear DNA) in an unfertilized egg with genetic material from an adult somatic cell (e.g., skin cell). Stem cells that genetically match the adult somatic cell ...

Domain: Medical; Category: Stem cell research

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