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How exactly can stem cells benefit with paralysis and all the other diseases they say it can benefit?

I am not understanding how the stem cells can help fix all of these things anyone want to inform me?

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1. The study of stem cells can teach us how to make cells grow into specific types of tissue. With that knowledge, we might be able to produce replacement cells for damaged cells, and cause the body to heal damage that would otherwise be permanent or untreatable. Imagine if we could cause cells to grow new neurons that would replaced damaged ones. Then we could reverse paralysis by replacing the damaged cells with working cells. But stem cell research could also teach us to regrow lost limbs or eyes as well. As we understand the methods of switching genes on and off, we could grow replacement teeth for lost permanent teeth by making a new tooth bud grow in the gum or jaw. We could regrow lost bone and combat osteoporosis. We might even be able to replace kidneys or other organs. Imagine being able to regrow heart tissue in heart attack patients, and replace the damaged blood vessels.
2. Stem cells are pleuripotent, that is, they have a limited capacity to form different types of organs or cells. Stem cells isolated and preserved from the umbilical cord after parturition or from any other source, can be used to culture replacement organs for defective ones. or haemopoietic stem cells, in case bone marrow transplant is needed or in case of leukemia.
3. Stem cells are the most primitive type of cell and they are capable of developing into many other type cells on maturation. The idea is to insert the stem cells into the pancreas to make islet cells to cure diabetes, and into the damaged spinal cord to develop into nerve cells to repair the damaged cord.