Pssst: It’s a cell. Get over it.
It’s in the area of adult stem cell research that new discoveries are being made every day. Hundreds of conditions and diseases are actually being treated using adult cells drawn from umbilical cord blood and other non-embryonic sources.
Add to that most experiments with embryonic stem cells tended to go out of control. Tumors, instead of repairing damaged areas, have been the typical outcome.