adult stem cells
Mature body's repairers
Adult stem cells are undifferentiated cells found in mature tissues throughout the body, capable of self-renewal and differentiation into specialized cell types.
Unlike embryonic stem cells, they exist in developed organisms and typically generate only the cell types of their tissue of origin—blood stem cells produce blood cells, skin stem cells produce skin.
They're harvested for medical treatments including bone marrow transplants: Adult stem cells from the patient's own body reduce rejection risk.
- regenerativeAble to renew itself
- pluripotentAble to become many cell types
- bone marrowBlood cell birthplace
- bone marrow transplantInfusing healthy hematopoietic cells
- transplantMove tissue between bodies
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