1. What types of diseases have the potential to be cured by stem cell technology

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1. What types of diseases have the potential to be cured by stem cell technology?

2. Are any stem cell treatment currently approved or in clinical trials?

3. What is the difference between an embryonic stem cell and an adult stem cell? What are the changes that occur in a cell as it differentiates?

4. How are stem cells and cancer cells similar?

5. What are the ethical issues surrounding the use of embryonic stem cells? Can any of these issues be avoided using technology such as somatic cell transfer or induced pluripotent stem cells, explain why or why not?

6. What are the potential dangers of stem cell technology?

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Both capable of giving rise to more cells of the same type.

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