Stem cells
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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
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What is a stem cell?
Stem cells:An unspecialized cell that can produce specialized cells
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How long was the women's operation?
2 hours
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What does IPS stand for?
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell
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What are the 2 types of stem cells?
Embryonic stem cells and Tissue stem cells
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Where were the specialized cells taken from?
The women's arm (skin cells)
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Who created/ discovered Induced Ploripotent Stem Cells?
Shinya Yamanaka
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What are the 3 types of tissues pluripotent stem cells can specialize into?
- Neural Cells - Cardiac Muscle - Blood Cells
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How many people were there in line to get the treatment?
6 people
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What are Induced Ploripotent Stem Cell?
Adult cells that have been genetically reprogrammed to an embryonic stem cell
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What is a Totipotent cell?
A cell that is comply unspecialized
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What is the name of the women's disease? What does it mean?
Muscular Degeneration (AMD:The small central portion of the retina deteriorates causing vision loss. May lead to blindness.
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How are induced ploripotent stem cells made?>
Adult cell is taken from the body-genes are added to the specialized cell tricking it to reproduce into an unspecialzed cell
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