General Knowledge
These are the two types of STEM cells.
What are embryonic and adult?
This type of stem cell comes from the zygote.
What are embryonic stem cells?
This bone structure is necessary for communicating signals from the brain to the rest of the body and coordinating movement.
This is a cancer treatment that uses a number of anti cancer drugs in order to mitigate the growth of tumors.
What is chemotherapy?
This is the reason that it is almost impossible to operate on the macular system.
What is the fragility of the eye?
Grand Central Terminal is the world’s ____ railway station.
What is largest?
This is what it is called when a STEM cell can differentiate into any type of cell.
What is totipotent?
This is the type is the type of cell that STEM cells differentiate into when being used to treat damage to the spinal cord.
What are neurons?
This is one of the major detriments of chemotherapy on the patient.
What is tissue damage?
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What is immune system damage?
This is the health disease that stem cell therapy is trying to solve.
What is age related loss of sight?
This is the branch of zoology concerned with studying insects.
What is entomology?
This type of stem cell can come from the bone marrow, liver, blood vessels, etc.
What is adult STEM cells?
This is the location of the STEM cells that are donated.
Where is the bone marrow?
This is the proposed method that stem cells be used to help from chemotherapy.
What is replacing the immune cells that died during chemotherapy?
This is the proposed solution to macular degeneration.
What is a sheet of stem cells?
These are the two scientists who discovered STEM cells
Drs. James Till and Ernset McCulloch
This is specific protein can trigger the differentiation of stem cells.
What are antigens?
This is the extent of testing spinal cord regeneration in living animals.
What is testing in rodents?
This is the more harmful of the two main treatments of cancer.
(Hint: Chemotherapy or radiation)
What is radiation?
This is genetically altered cells are added to the tissue and organs of a patient.
What is gene therapy?
This was the location of the 2010 Winter Olympics
Where is Vancouver, Canada?
This is the official term for blood forming stem cells.
What are hematopoietic stem cells?
This was the first country to trial run Spinal Cord Repair with stem cells.
Where is the USA?
Besides recovering from chemotherapy, stem cell transplants are most often used to treat this kind of cancer.
What are blood cancers? (lymphomas, leukemias, and myelomas)
Hematopoietic stem cells that were altered with gene therapy return to this part of the body.
What is the bone marrow?