Stem cells found in adult tissue, such as in the bone marrow, brain, muscle, skin, and liver, are only capable of

the answer is self-renewal just took it.

The correct answer would be self-renewal.

Adult stem cells or somatic stem cells are undifferentiated cells which are capable of divide and differentiate into a specific cell type which help in repairing and regenerating damaged or injured tissues.

They have two properties: self-renewal and multipotency.

Self-renewal is the property by which they maintain themselves into an undifferentiated state even after going through a number of cell division cycles.

Multipotency is a property which a stem cell can differentiate into several different cell types.

Thus, stem cells found in adult tissue, such as in the brain, bone marrow, skin, muscle, and liver, are only capable of self-renewal and differentiate into different cell types.

"1. it should be, it has been for about 20 years, and it's really not much different in the end than breeding animals to have particular traits. there are always concerns about genetically engineered animals/plants affecting the environment in unexpected negative ways, but i can't think of an example where the fears didn't turn out to be baseless.  

first, as you point out, it would be a great advance in pharmacology, to be able to tailor drugs and their doses to me. the pros involve better medical treatment. the cons involve privacy issues like insurance companies denying coverage to people with genetic risk factors. looking at dna markers wouldn't affect the frequency of genetic diseases, but it would allow detection of them earlier. and ok, actually i suppose that if people used this information to avoid having children with genetic diseases, some might decrease in frequency."