Therapies
Where did I come from?
Type of Stem Cell
Cloning
Wild Card
100
This is the type of stem cell that new mothers may "bank" for future use.
What are umbilical cord blood stem cells (multipotent/adult stem cells)?
100
The stem cells derived/collected from here are called "umbilical cord blood stem cells".
What is the umbilical cord?
100
These stem cells are considered to have "total potential"
What are totipotent stem cells?
100
These are considered "natural clones".
What are identical twins?
100

The star of the Matrix.

Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Ann Moss, Laurence Fishbourne

200
These stem cells can be collected from "here" on donors to help patients recover from chemotherapy or radiation therapies - it helps replace damaged blood cells.
What is bone marrow ?
200
These stem cells are reproduced every four days within all of our bodies.
What are intestinal (adult/multipotent) stem cells?
200
These stem cells may become ANY tissue or organ (but NOT an entire organism).
What are pluripotent stem cells?
200
Any cell - other than a reproductive cell (sperm/egg).
What is a somatic cell?
200

Ms. Kin's least favourite current musical artists

Who is Taylor Swift ?

300
Stem cell lines may be derived from donations made by potential-parents that seek out this type of treatment.
What is In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)?
300
These pluripotent stem cells are collected from clinics with the informed consent of the donors - they no longer need/want them. (What procedure was performed?)
In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
300
These stem cells have differentiated (specialized) enough that they may only become additional stem cells of the original tissue (i.e. intestinal cells can create intestinal cells).
What multipotent (adult) stem cells?
300
This type of cloning is considered less controversial and has the potential to create life saving drugs or organs.
What is therapeutic cloning?
300

Ms. Kin's lab babies 

What are the new microscopes?

400
These animals were considered for usage to grow and harvest human organs such as a heart, liver, or kidney (with the assistance of genetic manipulation).
What are pigs.
400
These cells are collected from a part of blastocyst (but not the placenta membrane).
What is the Inner Cell Mass (ICM)?
400
This stem cell is considered the least plastic, has the least potential, is the least elastic, of the three types of stem cells.
What are multipotent (adult) stem cells?
400
This type of cloning would have the potential to create a genetic duplication of an existing organism.
What is reproductive cloning?
400

The year President Obama lifted the restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research.

What is 2009?

500
Christopher Reeve hoped the use of embryonic stem cells could reverse or cure this condition.
What is a hangman's fracture (paralysis).
500
This stem cell is now a "pluripotent" stem cell - but only because it was induced by a scientist.
What is a multipotent (adult) stem cell.
500
These stem cells have been "reprogramed" to behave more like embryonic stem cells - giving them the ability to turn into any tissue/organ. Not just the organ/tissue of origin.
What are Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPS)
500
In theory, you could use this method of cloning to recreate any organism. All you would need in any viable cell (non-reproductive) in which the DNA is intact. Remove the nucleus from one cell and replace it with the nucleus (DNA) of the organism you want to clone.
What is somatic cell nuclear transfer?
500
Dolly the cloned sheep lived to be this age.
What is 6 years old?
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