so I would like to start right at the very top with a definition I think the words stem cells are pretty divisive for people I think there's two camps correct me if you think I'm wrong some people when they hear the word stem cells they think of some miracle solution medicine treatment to a any number of problems and there's some people i think probably think controversy right that they're like overreaching overselling can you maybe start by giving us your perspective you know what even is a stem cell for people that aren't aware

Yes.

So people know them, I think, often because of the embryonic stem cell controversies that kind of happened during the Bush years.

And so the idea is that you have a cell that can self-renew, it can make more of itself, and that it can make other things.

And so there's many different types of stem cells.

So we don't have any right now that have the ability to make an entire organism, all the cells of an entire organism and the placenta as well.

That's not possible right now, but we do have some that can make any cell in the body.

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