if you wouldn't mind helping me welcome to the microphone jasmine valdez. would you do a little bit of your presentation c'mon over. [ applause ] . >> good evening. my name is martha jasmine. i'm currently a senior at balboa high school. i'm in the internship program where i interned in the lab at mission bay campus ucsf. i was nominated and extremely excited when i was accepted. the lab work of these stem cells are very important. one is cell renewal when the cell divides it may and look like the original one. the se

if you wouldn't mind helping me welcome to the microphone jasmine valdez. would you do a little bit of your presentation c'mon over. [ applause ] . >> good evening. my name is martha jasmine. i'm currently a senior at balboa high school. i'm in the internship program where i interned in the lab at mission bay campus ucsf. i was nominated and extremely excited when i was accepted. the lab work of these stem cells are very important. one is cell renewal when the cell divides it may and look like the original one. the second ability is clear potency which means that it can become any cell in the body as well. our lab was interested in factors that we maintained these two important abilities in the cells. understanding how such a small part of these specific cells have developed and understanding of how stem cells work will aid our efforts in learning to manipulate stem cells to contribute towards development of regenerative medicine. the first day of the program i was extremely nervous and i think we all were. i saw the faces of 20 individuals whom i would late