Short spoken segment from a YouTube video by Joy Kong, MD arguing that umbilical cord stem cells are more 'powerful' (have broader differentiation potential) than the baby’s stem cells. The speaker explains that because baby cells have continued developing in utero they become more specialized and lose some ability to differentiate, whereas cord-derived cells retain more primitive, flexible properties.
Your stem cells are not nearly as powerful as the cells from the umbilical cord, because the umbilical cord stem cells actually are more powerful than the baby's stem cells, because the baby has kept developing right in the womb, the umbilical cord, it got trapped in the core tissue and maintained its primitive properties. So the baby kept evolving and going down the pathways, the cells will keep developing. That means they're gaining properties, gaining abilities, working potentials, but then losing their differentiation potential. So they lose this overall ability to become anything they want. Broader range of abilities to become different types of cells because they're becoming more and more specialized. So the baby stem cells are more specialized comparing to the cells of the umbilical cord.
