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Stem cells are undifferentiated, which means that they can become anything.

A skin cell is only a skin cell, a nerve cell is only a nerve cell, and a skin cell can't do what a nerve cell does, or vice versa.

But a stem cell can become either a skin cell or a nerve cell, or any other cell your body has.

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