Joy Kong, MDRegenerative Medicine Physician, Educator, and Entrepreneur

The Future of Medicine?

25 May 2024 · 0 min

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A short excerpt from a YouTube talk ("The Future of Medicine?" by Joy Kong, MD) describing how an early embryonic stem cell divides to form a ball (blastocyst) and how cells from the inner cell mass are harvested as embryonic stem cells used in embryonic stem cell research. The speaker emphasizes a sense of wonder about stem-cell "intelligence."

That's amazing to me. It's miracle. It is. So that kind of intelligence is what we're tapping into that stem cell. That first stem cell would start to divide into many, many stem cells until it forms a ball. And then you can get cells from the inner, you know, it's called inner cell mass. From that ball, you can get one of the cells out, and that's called embryonic stem cell. That's what they use in embryonic stem cell research.