Fat derived stem cells are adult stem cells.

But adult stem cells are not embryonic stem cells.

That's all stem cells.

Okay, induced pluripotent stem cells.

Plus we have stem cells.

Somatic or adults stem cells.

So, embryonic stem cells are really incredible cells.

So I've studied a lot about stem cells embryonic stem cells are particularly powerful.

We've talked about stem cells tonight.

If we cannot use stem cells from your body then we'd like to use donor stem cells.

It's a great source of stem cells.

These are female and male stem cells.

You all know about embryonic stem cells.

Stem cells are packed in that liposuction fluid.

And for those we still need stem cells.

We also have adult stem cells throughout our body.

And I stumbled across something called cancer stem cells.

At first when I heard of cancer stem cells,

And obviously, the next question is, hey, well, why don't they just call them stem cells as opposed to embryonic stem cells?

So he'll take, say, falcon skin cells, fibroblast, turn it into induced pluripotent stem cells.

But the moral controversy surrounding embryonic stem cells the fact that these cells are derived from five day old human embryos has encouraged research into other types of stem cells.

Adult stem cells are throughout our body, including the blood forming stem cells in our bone marrow, which we've been using as a form of stem cell therapy for over 40 years.

Or we can use cells alone, either your very own cells or different stem cell populations.

They're a lot like embryonic stem cells except without the controversy.

So each of these right here are embryonic stem cells, and

Then, they sprayed stem cells onto that heart, from a mouse.

Those stem cells self organized, and that heart started to beat.

Today we realize that there are many different types of stem cells.

Soon, we actually will be able to use stem cells to replace cells that are damaged or diseased.

Stem cells provide hope for new beginnings small, incremental steps, cells rather than organs, repair rather than replacement.

And we're working a lot with the stem cells that we published on two years ago, stem cells from the amniotic fluid, and the placenta, which have those properties.

They discovered that adult cells, taken from you and me, could be reprogrammed back into embryonic like cells, which they termed IPS cells, or induced pluripotent stem cells.

And some of our investigative teams have demonstrated that female stem cells and this is in animals and increasingly we're showing this in humans that female stem cells, when put even into a male body, do better than male stem cells going into a male body.

let the stem cells grow and create a full copy of that mouse.

Here go the stem cells, right into the beating heart of the patient.

What's that? A possible treatment using stem cells from a genetically compatible donor.

There's this experimental treatment for Jack's disease, but he needs compatible stem cells.

And then what they did in October is they took skin cells, turned them into stem cells and began to turn them into liver cells.

The cancer stem cells remain, and the tumor can return months or years later.

There are 170 clinical trials investigating the role of stem cells in heart disease.

Last summer I worked at Stanford University, doing some research on cancer stem cells.

Because what stem cells are they're these phenomenal cells that really have the ability to differentiate into any type of tissue.

And at that time, stem cell research had gained momentum, following the isolation of the world's first human embryonic stem cells in the 1990s.

One of the key technologies that's really important is what's called induced pluripotent stem cells.

Now today, many clinical trials are using different kinds of stem cells for heart disease.