Stem cells have the remarkable potential to develop into many different cell types in the body during early life and growth. In addition, in many tissues they serve as a sort of internal repair system, dividing essentially without limit to replenish other cells as long as the person or animal is still alive. When a stem cell divides, each new cell has the potential either to remain a stem cell or become another type of cell with a more specialized function, such as a muscle cell, a red blood cell, a brain cell, a nerve cell and so forth.
Stem cells are distinguished from other cell types by two important characteristics. First, they are unspecialized cells capable of renewing themselves through cell division, sometimes after long periods of inactivity. Second, under certain physiologic conditions, they can be induced to become tissue- or organ-specific cells with special functions. In some organs, such as the gut and bone marrow, stem cells regularly divide to repair and replace worn out or damaged tissues. In other organs, however, such as the pancreas and the heart, stem cells only divide under special conditions.
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Embryonic stem cells - are taken from aborted fetuses or fertilized eggs that are left over from in vitro fertilization (IVF). They are useful for medical and research purposes because they can produce cells for almost every tissue in the body.
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These embryonic stem cells have both the capacity to self-renew, thus maintaining a continuous supply of stem cells and the ability to give rise to specialized (differentiated) cell types, such as liver cells or brain cells.
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It is believed that once differentiated, cells remain so and usually lose most of their ability to differentiate further. These differentiated cells can divide about 50 times more to replace aged and mutated cells of the same kind in ones life time at different rates depending on the organ or tissue where they are stored.
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As the rest of the world was still discussing moral and religious issues concerning the legality of Embryonic Stem Cell Research, the Government of China pumped billions of dollars of research money into State funded and State sponsored facilities.
Leading Scientists who were frustrated by bureaucratic restrictions at home were hired to work hand in hand with their Chinese counterparts and given near unlimited resources.
This has led to one breakthrough after the other and has made China the unrivaled leader, when it comes to technological advances as well as quality of service of both Stem Cell as well as Immune Cell Therapies.
