Stem cells are called so because they are "still in the body can be anything", so its function is not yet defined. Stem cells can thus be seen as the basis of the ongoing regeneration - they are able to replicate themselves and can produce more stem cells. And they can be on specific organ-specific cells, ie muscle, blood or organ cells. And they are - for obvious reasons - the central concern of many bioengineers such as recently with the Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon.
Stem cell research has tradition - as the Briton Gurdon could publish his first ground-breaking results, the Japanese Yamanaka was just born. Both shared the crucial foundations for have created in order to potentially revolutionize the future of regenerative medicine.
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