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Stem Cell Types

There are 3 types of stem cells:

- embryonic stem cells

-adult stem cells

-induced pluriopotent stem cells

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Human Embyonic Stem Cells (Image Citation 2)

Stem Cells extracted from the bone (bone marrow) called Hematopoietic Stem Cells. These cells specialize to form the 3 types of blood cells (Image Citation 3)

BELOW: skin cells from Pigmy Chimps that were genetically reprogrammed to become embryonic stem cells (Image Citation 4)

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