4 links have been added on this idea.
  1. Good video here, it may help brain disease if nothing else. Looks like we will have to kill lots of them to find out though.

  2. Academic research pdf, worth a read about using stem cells to make the cells we may want in us one day – “The secret to the promise of stem cells in clinical treatment lies in their capability to specialise from an undifferentiated totipotent stem cell into any cell type in appropriate conditions, a trait useful in regeneration of damaged tissue without the chance of rejection, associated with transplants”