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• a  not specialized or modified for a particular purpose or function

• Scientists have long believed, however, that embryonic stem cells could be terrifically useful in their unspecialized state as well, not only as a source of information about how .
• Embryonic stem cells are the unspecialized raw material that give rise to every cell type in the body in fact, some of Moon and Hwang's stem cells evidently turned into bone .
• Scientists are looking instead to stem cells, unspecialized cells that eventually turn into every tissue in the body.

• unspecialised

• specialized

News & Articles

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• Brownsville man called fake doc
  BROWNSVILLE — Federal authorities say a man who posed as a doctor was part of a scheme that used stem cells from the umbilical cords of women at a border maternity clinic to prey on the hopes of patients with incurable diseases. According to the National Institutes on Health, stem cells are unspecialized cells that can renew themselves and as such hold the promise of repairing or replacing worn ...
  Sept. 12, 2013 - San Antonio Express-News