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Medical Biotechnology
Gene Therapy
Regenerative Medicine
Biotech Regulations
Ethics
100
This is the main reason for medical biotechnology.
What is to prolong life?
100
This is the most common vector for gene therapy.
What is a virus?
100
This type of stem cell can give rise to over 200 types of cells.
What are pluripotent stem cells?
100
This was the first agency in charge of regulating biotechnology.
What is NIH?
100
This is defined as, a field of study concerned with the ethics and philosophical implications of certain biological and medical procedures, technologies, and treatments, such as organ transplants, genetic engineering, and care of the terminally ill.
What is bioethics?
200
This is the mass production of human proteins, vaccines, etc… by genetically modifying bacteria or viruses.
What is bioprocessing?
200
This is a disease caused by a "variation" or "mutation“ of a gene and can be passed down from family members.
What is a genetic disorder?
200
These are made out of a variety of textures and allow cells to grow for creating tissues.
What are scaffolds?
200
When a patent is issued in the United States it is effective for this many years.
What is 20 years?
200
The definition of this term is that the benefits must be proportionate to risks.
What is beneficence?
300
This phase of clinical drug trials is the safety phase.
What is Phase I?
300
In this type of gene therapy, target cells are removed from the body and then genetically modified.
What is ex vivo gene therapy?
300
The definition of this is to travel to the site of tissue damage.
What is homing?
300
These are defined as any medical preparation made from living organisms or their products (and the USDA regulates them).
What are biologics?
300
This term means to do no harm.
What is non maleficence?
400
This is the average cost of IVF treatment.
What is $12,000?
400
This was the disease that the first gene therapy was performed on in 1990.
What is SCID?
400
This animal has been engineered to lack a sugar-producing gene that causes human bodies to reject their organs, potentially providing a source of rejection-free organs.
What is a pig?
400
In this year the Coordinated Framework for Regulation of Biotechnology was established as policy for regulating biotechnology.
What is 1986?
400
The argument that biotechnology is bad because of its consequences is an example of this type of argument.
What is extrinsic?
500
She was the first baby born by IVF?
Who is Louise Brown?
500
Adeno-associated viruses insert genetic information into this chromosome.
What is chromosome 19?
500
Scientists created induced pluripotent stem cells from this type of tissue.
What is skin?
500
A biotechnology company develops a food crop that has herbicide resistance. This (these) branch of the government is responsible for regulation.
What is the USDA, EPA and FDA?
500
In class we discussed a classic bioethical decision regarding a transplant of this organ.
What is a heart?