We (the scientific community of educators) have lied to you all these years about how mitosis works. We never told you that one of the daughters remains a stem cell and the other differentiates to do it's job. we never told you only the adult stem cells in a tissue can do mitosis...

Totipotent cells are found in the blastula

The blastocyst is the only place we can get pluripotent stem cells (naturally occurring - not manipulated in a lab)

Adult stem cells are easy to identify, isolate, and culture in the lab

Adult stem cells are considered pluripotent and only bone marrow stem cells are considered multipotent.

Stem cell technology holds amazing potential for human health