- So the two main things that you wanna think about
with a stem cell, the first one is that
it can make a lot more cells just like it.
But the other cool thing about a stem cell
is it can turn into lots of different cells
from the body.
- Like a skin cell, or a hair cell, or a heart cell.
And they all come from one stem cell.
- We are made from billions of different cells
that have different functions.
We are trying to use the cell
that has the potential to be everything
and guide it to do and create the different tissues
and organs that the body's made of.
- That's the reason that people really like studying stem cells,
is we can start with that material,
and then depending what kind of disease we want to study,
what sort of problem we want to address,
there's lots of different cells that it could turn into.