Stem Cell Research: California

[jerseydevil]

Originally Posted by Nurvingiel

I thought it was the other way around - adult cells were more responsive. I could be wrong. (I clicked your link... couldn't resist... ) But if they're too hard to come by... it would be a hard decision for a researcher to make, I think.

There are two ways of getting stem cells - but embryonic is the purest stem cell. Stem cells are the base cells that all other cells originate from - it's before the turn into the heart muscle, skin sells, liver cells, nerve cells, etc - so they can be forced to grow into anything.