Hidalgo DJR, Hernández CA, Chachques JC, Paredes CÁ

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Stem cells (SC) are internationally divided into fetal or embryonic and somatic, depending on their origin.
The embryonic SC are pluripotent cells that generate all types of body cells and they are not used due to ethical problems and existing legislations that prohibit their use, besides the opposition of the church. Somatic cells (Figure 1), on the other hand, are the ones employed and they are multipotential, but theoretically, they only generate a specific type of tissue.