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How stem cells work?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Stem cells are cells that do not yet have an assigned job. They only stay like this for 3-5 days after fertilisation. When the stem cell is assigned a job, this depends on the part of the body it is in, it is un-able to change jobs.

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