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What is embryonic stem cells?

Is the cell extracted from an embryo, or is the embryo used in the research?

Public Comments

1. Depending on what stage the fetus is in, there is a certain percentage of cells that have not differentiated yet, and are stem cells When extracting stem cells from aborted or miscarried fetuses, they extract the cells then use them in research At least that's how it goes to the best of my knowledge
2. -Primitive (undifferentiated) cells derived from a 5-day preimplantation embryo that have the potential to become a wide variety of specialized cell types. -Embryonic stem cells, which come from the inner cell mass of a human embryo, have the potential to develop into all or nearly all of the tissues in the body. The scientific term for this characteristic is "pluripotentiality." -EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS, AS THEIR NAME SUGGESTS, ARE DERIVED FROM EMBRYOS. SPECIFICALLY, EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS ARE DERIVED FROM EMBRYOS THAT DEVELOP FROM EGGS THAT HAVE BEEN FERTILIZED IN VITRO—IN AN IN VITRO FERTILIZATION CLINIC—AND THEN DONATED FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES WITH INFORMED CONSENT OF THE DONORS. THEY ARE NOT DERIVED FROM EGGS FERTILIZED IN A WOMAN'S BODY.
3. Embryonic stem cells are totipotent cells (undifferentiated cells and those which are capable of giving rise to any type of cell). As their name suggest they are found in embryos. This is where Ethics contradicts Genetics since an embryo which was extracted with stem cells die.