Topics of this game:
- What is a Stem Cell?
- Why are some people against research on induced pluripotent stem cells?
- Why should we study Stem Cells?
- What is the main purpose of an adult stem cell?
- In 2006, researchers from the University of Glasgow begin scaling up generation of red blood cells from stem cells to make a limitless supply of clean blood for transfusion.
- In 2017, skin cells from an anonymous donor were reprogrammed into iPS cells and then successfully transplanted onto the ________ of the patient,
- A heart attack, where oxygen supply to the heart is restricted, causes heart cells to die. How can stem cells help?
- In late 2007, scientists identified conditions that would allow some adult human cells to be reprogrammed genetically to assume a stem cell-like state.
- For typical research, embryonic stem cells are grown from cells found in embryos developed from eggs that have been fertilized in ______________.
- How are adult stem cells collected?
- Have scientists been successful in using non-embryonic stem cells to treat disease?
- Just as a transplanted organ can be rejected by a patient's body, so can transplanted cells. If researchers could grow an embryo from one of a patient's own cells this would solve that problem. Growing an embryo from a patients own cells is called _____________,
- Cord blood (short for umbilical cord blood) that remains in the umbilical cord post-delivery is a rich source of stem cells and is stored or banked because?
