Name: TED-ED】幹細胞とは何か？- クレイグ・A・コーン (【TED-Ed】What are stem cells? - Craig A. Kohn)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T04:58:25.000Z
Duration: 4 min 11 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

Imagine two people are listening to music.

After all, everyone has very different tastes in music.

the exact same medical care and treatment

each of us will have very different needs

Scientists and doctors are constantly researching ways

Stem cells are cells that are undifferentiated,

meaning they do not have a specific job or function.

stem cells do not have any specific structures or functions.

to become all other kinds of cells in your body.

the lining of your intestines every four days.

Stem cells beneath the lining of your intestines

Scientists hope that stem cells could be used

to create a very special kind of personalized medicine

in which we could replace your own body parts with,

Using stem cells to replace damaged bodily tissue

For example, scientists currently use stem cells

Bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside your bones

In leukemia, some of the cells inside your bone marrow

grow uncontrollably, crowding out the healthy stem cells

the blood cells needed by the patient's body.

Adult stem cells or tissue-specific stem cells

from leftover embryos that are willingly donated

is called induced pluripotent stem cells.

These are regular skin, fat, liver, or other cells

they, too, can become any kind of cell in the body.

into tissue to understand the mechnanisms

they can not only develop specialized medicine