Right now, only a few diseases are treatable with stem cell therapies because scientists can only regenerate a few types of tissues. However, the success of the most established stem cell-based therapies—blood and skin transplants—gives hope that someday stem cells will allow scientists to develop therapies for a variety of diseases previously thought to be incurable.
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