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David Stachura

Sep 30, 2026

3:12
What determines what type of cell they're turning into?
3:16
Yeah, it's a good question.
3:17
So I guess to get back to, you know, the beginning here, most people, when they hear stem cells, I think they think of embryonic stem cells.
3:25
And that's kind of, these are the morally problematic cells for some people.
3:31
So these would be like from the early, early development, these cells can become anything in the body, right? And that's why they have so much promise clinically, but really people don't use them or study them much anymore because we have alternatives to them.
3:46
But what I would say we think about, let's just think about like as an adult human being, right? You're sitting here, you have stem cells that are making blood constantly in your body.
3:57
Those are located in your bone marrow, and they're only responsible for making blood.

7 MINS LATER

10:56
But are they the same?

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