The following scientific overviews focus on the use of stem cells-both in research and potential therapeutic applications - to address one of the most challenging, life-changing diseases and conditions of our time. These overviews have two educational objectives: to make clear the opportunities and promise inherent in the basic science and to provide you with a picture of the research avenues that must be pursued to reach clinical applications. The overviews point to the areas where fundamental questions exist, where therapies need improvement, and where funding for research is urgently required.

	Stem Cells and Blood Diseases
	Discovering and Exploiting Cancer Stem Cells
	Type1 Diabetes
	Heart Disease
	Understanding the Development and Repair of the Kidney
	Stem Cells and Neurodegenerative Disease