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and they become capable of producing liver,
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for example, or brain, or muscle.
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That's a lot of the literature of stem cells
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that you'll read about,
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taking a particular source of stem cell
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and nurturing it in such a way that it gains potentials
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that it didn't have necessarily when it was in the body,
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or exploiting those potentials that it wouldn't necessarily express.
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That's a lot of what stem cell biology is like - is about.
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This diagram here sort of allows me to walk you through
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some of the terminology of this stem cell development
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and talk about these concepts.