Different kinds of stem cells originate from various locations throughout your body and serve various purposes. Discover more about the numerous stem cell kinds here.

With the knowledge that these stem cells have particular and constrained abilities, scientists are investigating the various functions tissue-specific stem cells might play in healing. Tissue-specific stem cells cannot produce any other cell types outside of the tissues in which they reside without laboratory manipulation. For instance, neural stem cells in the brain create brain cells, but blood-forming (hematopoietic) stem cells in bone marrow renew blood cells. A brain cell cannot be created by a hematopoietic stem cell and vice versa. Consequently, it is doubtful that one type of cell can be employed to treat all cases.