What do human stem cells look like?

Question

I am doing a biology project and I need to find a picture labeled of a picture of a human stem cell do you know where I could find one? I tried googling it and looking on a bunch of websites but I couldn't find really any pictures of it. Please help. 10 points for the one who finds a picture for me any picture. thanks

Answer 1

If you want an actual PICTURE, it's not likely to contain much detail and is not likely to be labelled (because it doesn't contain much detail). The word you probably want to search by is 'zygote' - a stem cell can become any other cell, and a zygote is by definition a stem cell because it is a just-fertilized egg. Link 1 is an example... it just looks like an egg. Link 3 has more of those.

DIAGRAMS, on the other hand, can have all kind of details that a picture cannot, but they are essentially cartoons of what's really going on. Link 2 is a pretty good pdf with a variety of human stem cell diagrams because the article is referring to cloning (though I would say its text is not too complete, but that's another matter).