They have skin, bone and sinew of their own.
Rakuten's sales ban covers not only the mammals' meat but also skin, bone and other products.
But they can morph into blood, skin, bone or any of the body's other replaceable tissues.
An exception has been written into law for body parts, including skin, bone, and cartilage, which are classified as tissue.
Tissue donation is the gift of tissue such as corneas, skin, bone, tendons, cartilage and heart valves.
There is a general age limit of 70 for donation of tissue, including the eyes, skin, bone, heart valves and tendons.
Stem cells are a kind of universal clay, so responsive to local cues that they can morph into blood, skin, bone or any other replaceable tissues.
The chief exception was "Skin Bone Organ Gland Space Time Image," a solo choreographed and performed by Wendell Beavers to music by Gustav Santalolalla.
In theory, 100 people can receive bits of tissue like muscle, skin, bone and ligaments from one cadaver, said Dr. Daniel Jernigan, an epidemiologist at the disease centers.
Given the proper signal or environment, stem cells, transplanted into human tissue, can be induced to develop into brain, heart, skin, bone marrow cells -- indeed, any specialized cells.
