This document discusses stem cells and their properties, acquisition methods, advantages/disadvantages, and ethical concerns. It addresses topics such as what stem cells are, where they come from, how they are acquired from various sources like embryonic and adult tissues, their therapeutic applications, and challenges and ethical issues around stem cell research and therapy.

1. By Jim McMichael

2.  Why do we have them?
 What are their properties?
 Applications/cell therapy

3.  What are they?
 How are they acquired?
 Advantages/Disadvantages
 Ethical concerns

4.  How are they acquired?
 What are their properties?
 Advantages/Disadvantages
 Ethical concerns

5.  Where do they come from?
 What are their properties?
 Advantages/Disadvantages
 Ethical concerns

6.  How do we make them?
 Problems
 Applications
 Ethical concerns
 The future of iPS cells