• Question: Can you grow a plant on a part of your body using stem cells?

    Asked by charlocked to Anzy on 14 Nov 2013.
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      Anzy Miller answered on 14 Nov 2013:

      Hi Charlocked,
      Nope, you can’t grow plants from human or mice stem cells. Plant cells are very different. But plants have their own stem cells – have you ever done any gardening? Did you know that if you cut off a branch of a plant- it will just grow another somewhere else? This is because it also senses as a body what it needs, and uses its own stem cell-like cells to make the new branch! Its better than humans, because if we cut off our hand, we don’t grow a new one!!
      🙂

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