What is one alternative that avoids the use of embryonic stem cells?
100
Every body cell, or somatic cell, is somehow an embryo and therefore, a human life.
What is a myth about embryonic stem cell research?
100
The requirement of lifelong drugs to prevent rejection from the tissues
What is a minor complication of embryonic stem cells?
100
Ethically responsible stem cell research, while opposing any research that exploits or destroys human embryos.
What is the church's opinion on stem cell research?
100
Retains the capacity to divide and have the ability to differentiate along different pathways
What are stem cells?
200
Adult stem cells limited because adult stem cells can only grow into certain cell types
What is wrong with using adult stem cells?
200
Every time we wash our hands we are destroying a life
What is a myth about stem cells?
200
Produces tumors when injected into adult patients
What is a large consequence of embryonic stem cell research?
200
Stem cell research using Cord Blood stem cells, and Adult Stem Cells
What does the Catholic Church promote?
200
The three different types of stem cells
What are embryonic stem cells, cord blood cells, and adult stem cells?
300
These have only been used in mice trials
Why aren't pluripotent cells used instead of embryonic?
300
A regular skin cell only has to potential to create more regular skin cells when it divides, while an embryo has the ability to make an entire entire adult life form
What is the difference between regular skin cells and stem cells?
300
Head jerking, twisting, and uncontrollable body movements.
What are side effects for patients with Parkinson's disease?
300
The day that U.S. bishops overwhelmingly approved a statement calling the use of human embryos in such research “gravely immoral” and unnecessary
What is June 3rd?
300
Cells extracted from umbilical cords of newborns which are only able to differentiate into blood cells
What are Cord Blood Cells?
400
Cells created by scientists that are capable of differentiating into many cell types in the body, that do not destroy embryos
What are pluripotent cells?
400
The research that has proven to be more successful than embryonic stem cell research, curing over a thousand diseases.
What is adult stem cell research
400
Stem cells may be altered in a laboratory, causing faults due to the division of cells.
Why can embryonic stem cell research not work?
400
"On Embryonic Stem-Cell Research: A Statement of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops."
What is the document cast in favor by a 191-1 vote?
400
Tissues found in bone marrow, liver and teeth, that are very hard to obtain
What are adult stem cells?
500
Extracted mature adult cells are multiplied and stressed almost to the point of death by exposing them to trauma, low oxygen levels, and an acidic environments
How are pluripotent cells created?
500
The research system that is behind adult stem cell research by 20-30 years
What is embryonic stem cell research
500
When severe symptoms of embryonic stem cell research are not monitored.
What are severe consequences of embryonic stem cells?
500
Research being conducted about the possibility of obtaining embryonic stem cells without harming the embryos.
What is the Catholic Church open to?
500
Improving the health of patients with "Stargardt's disease and leukemia.