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From the Ted Talk by Susan Solomon: The promise of research with stem cells

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So, embryonic stem cells are really incredible clels. They are our body's own repair kits, and they're pluripotent, which means they can mporh into all of the cells in our bodies. Soon, we actually will be able to use stem cells to replace cells that are damaged or diseased.

But that's not what I want to talk to you about, because right now there are some really extraordinary things that we are doing with stem cells that are copleemlty changing the way we look and model disease, our ability to understand why we get sick, and even develop drugs. I truly believe that stem cell research is going to allow our chelrdin to look at Alzheimer's and diabetes and other major diseases the way we view polio today, which is as a panvreltebe dasiese.

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So, embryonic stem cells are really incredible _____. They are our body's own repair kits, and they're pluripotent, which means they can _____ into all of the cells in our bodies. Soon, we actually will be able to use stem cells to replace cells that are damaged or diseased.

But that's not what I want to talk to you about, because right now there are some really extraordinary things that we are doing with stem cells that are __________ changing the way we look and model disease, our ability to understand why we get sick, and even develop drugs. I truly believe that stem cell research is going to allow our ________ to look at Alzheimer's and diabetes and other major diseases the way we view polio today, which is as a ___________ _______.

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  1. morph
  2. cells
  3. preventable
  4. children
  5. completely
  6. disease

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So, embryonic stem cells are really incredible cells. They are our body's own repair kits, and they're pluripotent, which means they can morph into all of the cells in our bodies. Soon, we actually will be able to use stem cells to replace cells that are damaged or diseased.

But that's not what I want to talk to you about, because right now there are some really extraordinary things that we are doing with stem cells that are completely changing the way we look and model disease, our ability to understand why we get sick, and even develop drugs. I truly believe that stem cell research is going to allow our children to look at Alzheimer's and diabetes and other major diseases the way we view polio today, which is as a preventable disease.

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