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Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research

Human Embryonic Stem Cell Video Introduction


Human embryonic stem cells have the potential to transform the way scientists study human diseases, the way drug companies discover and test new drugs, and the way physicians treat their patients. The tremendous therapeutic promise of embryonic stem cell research to treat or cure devastating diseases motivates many of the research programs in our center. The following brief video helps explain where embryonic stem cells come from and how are they made.