Stem cells are generally very early stage cells that have the ability to turn into other   

      specialized  types of cells.  For example a stem cell can turn into liver cells, skin cells , nerve cells  

       etc. These early stage cells can have differing abilities to turn into more specialised cells.

       

How a cell goes from type A to type B is part of discovering something about ourselves and the world we live in.

    

Why are stem cells important?

Stem cells are significant for a number of reasons. These include things like:

• Potential therapeutic uses such as:
  • cures for diabetes, brain diseases like Parkinson. Treatments for cancer
    or Multiple sclerosis (MS)
• Ethical concerns
  • Issues of when is a human human, misuse. (does not apply to your own adult stem cells)
    
• Scientific curiosity- simply knowing how cells can change from one function to another to aid natural healing processes already established in Human Regenerative Processes.

What is the history of stem cells? 

Stem cells themselves have actually been around for almost as long as life has been on earth. In essence all life evolved from stem cells of some kind.

Many of the earliest forms of life on earth were not much more complex than stem cells.

Stem cell field research developed from studies in the 1960s by Canadian scientists Ernest A. McCulloch and James E. Till