Kyle Loh Introduces Embryonic Stem Cells | Big Think

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Kyle Loh Introduces Embryonic Stem Cells New videos DAILY: https://bigth.ink/youtube Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The researcher illuminates the world of stem cells and how they can cure disease. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kyle Loh: Big Think extends a warm thank you to Cogito and the Center for Talented Youth at John Hopkins University for facilitating this interview. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRANSCRIPT: Question: What are embryonic stem cells and why are they important Loh: Just as a quick background, embryonic stem cells are very amazing stem cells that can make all cells in the human body so that’s anything you can think of, like brain or skin or muscle. This seems not interesting until you begin to consider how… if we can use stem cells to treat or cure human disease and human suffering. And so if you think about it, lots of human diseases like diabetes or Parkinson’s Disease or… even aging, are because a certain kind of cell in the human body is lost. So, for example, in diabetes, your pancreatic cells are lost and you can’t make any more insulin or in spinal cord injury, you lose your spinal cord cells and you can’t move anymore and this is very devastating. So if human embryonic stem cells can make all cells in the human body

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