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• Potential – the ability to develop into particular types of cell
• Totipotent, Multipotent, and Multipotent are types of types of SC based on potential
• umbilical cord stem cells are multipotent
• adult stem cells are multipotent
• fetal stem cells are pluripotent
• embryonic stem cells in the blastocyst are pluripotent
• early stem cells are totipotent
• Replace diseased specialized cells with healthy cells,

  called cell therapy
• Cell therapy – similar to organ transplantation, except that

  the process consists of transplanting cells instead of organs
• the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes