From 1931 to 1947, some 80% of graduates from New York City high schools had been extracurricularly active, as in sports or clubs. Participation was highest, 99%, at Bay Ridge High School, a girls' school in Brooklyn, and was lowest, 56%, at Theodore Roosevelt High School.
A: The term stem cells includes many different kinds of cells. What they have in common is that they have the ability to make other types of cells. No other cell in the body can do that. Some stem cells can renew themselves and become virtually any cell in the body. Those are called pluripotent stem cells. They include embryonic stem cells.
Cord blood stem cells are not embryonic stem cells and are free from the controversy that surrounds them. In fact, cord blood stem cells belong to a different group of stem cells entirely called adult stem cells. No embryos are destroyed in the collected of cord blood stem cells.