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Uses of Stem Cells

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Uses of Stem Cells

Stem cells can be used for many different medical, scientific and commercial purposes:

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Stem cell treatments

  • Stem cells may be able to replace damaged cells in the body.
    • For example, stem cells may replace the damaged cells that cause diabetes or paralysis.
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Plant clones

  • Plant stem cells can be used to quickly and cheaply produce cloned plants.
  • This could help to protect rare plant species from extinction and create large populations of plants with special features, such as disease resistance.
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Therapeutic cloning

  • Therapeutic cloning is a process that produces (creates) an embryo with the same genes as the patient.
  • Stem cells taken from this embryo will have the same DNA as the patient. This means that the patient's body will not reject the stem cells or body cells made from the embryo's stem cells.
  • This is ideal for use in stem cell medical treatments.

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