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Diseases that can be treated with stem cells
100
Types of cells that havn't been differentiated yet.
What are stem cells.
100
The year human stem cells were first isolated.
What is 1998?
100
Signed by former President Clinton in 1995...no federal funds may be used for the creation of a human embryo for research purposes.
What is the Dickey-Wicker amendment?
100
Stem cells could help make insulin-producing cells.
What is diabetes?
200
The difference between adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells.
What is embryonic stem cells are cells in an embryo.
200
First mammal to be cloned.
What is a sheep?
200
Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota
What are states that ban stem cell research?
200
Stem cells might help create bone marrow, make cells that could kill it, and replace damaged tissue.
What is cancer?
300
umbilical cord, adults, embryos
What are places to get stem cells from?
300
The year Dolly the sheep was born.
What is 1996?
300
California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Wisconsin
What are states that have state funded stem cell research?
300
Stem cells might be used to create new cells to replace damaged cells. (example...paralysis)
What is spinal cord injury?
400
The stage of the embryo when stem cells are retrieved.
What is a blastocyst?
400
Emryonic stem cells were independently first derived from these embryos.
What are mouse embryos?
400
The first state to appropriate money for stem cell research.
What is New Jersey?
400
Stem cells could replace the misguided immune cells that attack the digestive tract.
What is Crohn's disease?
500
Stem cells that can become many different types of tissue.
What are pluripotent stem cells?
500
These are all organisms that have been cloned.
What are sheep, mice, dogs, and plants?
500
The state that approved Proposition 71, a 10-year $3 billion funding program in 2004.
What is California?
500
Stem cells may be able to make new nerve cells in the brain to replace those destroyed.
What is Parkinson's disease?