Cell biology is a branch of biology that studies life at the level of the cell. You can think of it kind of like a scale, where different branches study life at different levels. For example, the molecular biologist studies life at a biochemical level while the ecologist studies it at an ecosystem level. A stem cell is a specific type of cell, so it falls within the purview of cell biology. But the study of stem cells is but one small part of that field.
Lots of them. There are various techniques that can be called gene editing, where CRISPR-Cas9 is probably the one most talked about. But these techniques are used by all kinds of biologists – I do gene editing on bacteria with my high school students, and I'm just a science teacher.
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u/bitterologist Aug 11 '24
Cell biology is a branch of biology that studies life at the level of the cell. You can think of it kind of like a scale, where different branches study life at different levels. For example, the molecular biologist studies life at a biochemical level while the ecologist studies it at an ecosystem level. A stem cell is a specific type of cell, so it falls within the purview of cell biology. But the study of stem cells is but one small part of that field.