What are stem cells?

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What are some types of stem cells?

Stem Cells??? -Types of stem cells, and their differences. -Ways stem cells can help cure disease -why is stem cell Research and usage an ethical issue? and if you have any good websites that can help me understand stem cells and better please leave the link! THANKS :)

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Well stem cells are a kind of cell which has not been designated as a specific type of cell and so they...

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What can an embryonic stem cells do that adult stem cells can't?

I'm doing a four page report on stem cells for my science class on stem cells. I need to know what embryonic stem cells can do theat adult stem cells can't and what adult stem cells can do that embryonic stem cells can't. Please include your resources...

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Embryonic stem cells can form pretty much anything. It can make brain cells, cells for those with damaged...

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What are the differences between adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells?

This question is actually two related questions packed into one question, so please answer them both. 1. ) What are the differences between adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells? (Besides the fact that one comes from an adult and the other one coming...

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1. The main difference between adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells are that adult stem cells are...

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What are the differences between adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells?

This question is actually two related questions packed into one question, so please answer them both. 1. ) What are the differences between adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells? (Besides the fact that one comes from an adult and the other one coming...

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Embryonic stem cells can be changed to the desired result

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A researcher is comparing adult stem cells and other adult cells from the same tissue. What might he find?

A) The non-stem cells have lost the promoters for more genes. B) The two kinds of cells have virtually identical gene expression patterns in micro arrays C)The non-stem cells have fewer repressed genes D) Adult stem cells have more DNA nucleotides than...

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I think the best answer would be E. Promoters are effected by methylation so in a sense A could be correct...

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What's the big deal about embryonic stem cells?

I've heard about embryonic stem cell research being legalized. I'm all for stem cell research, considering the ways they can help people. However, I know there are other ways to get stem cells, like from the umbilical cord after birth. I know that cord...

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Morality. Catholics believe that life is a sacred gift from God and needs to be treated with all human...

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What do Umbilical Cord Stem Cells differentiate into?

can they only differentiate into blood cells only? Haematopoiesis stem cells? or can they differentiate into other things? ie. lung cells, nerve cells etc. ----- one other question: do red blood cells retaian their DNA in their Nuclei? what about Platelets...

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Gribbling is correct - you should take the other answers with a grain of salt. Umbilical cord stem cells...

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What Are Stem Cells?

What are Stem Cells? Where do scientists get them from (in the human body)? What do scientists use them for? Whats the difference between embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells?

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The gametes merge to become a zygote. Cleavage from the large initial zygote produces a ball of totipotent...

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What do we really know about stem cells?

If someone is given stem cells from a fetus wouldn't they have to take medication to keep from rejecting them? Wouldn't it be more logical to use the stem cells that the body already produces? I wonder how hard it is to harvest stem cells?

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Rejection? Maybe. Probably wouldn't be an issue if your own DNA was cloned into the embryonic stem cell...

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What if adult stem cells were lengthened temporarily via telomerase, audited for mutations using host DNA as a template, then grown into a fully functioning organ, rechecked for mutations, and then transplanted into the host's body?

Would you have a "younger" organ that is specific to the individual, therefore no possibility of rejection from the host body? I am thinking of people with progeria and folks with organ failure. I realize much of this is not within our capability...

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Regnerative medicine using a patient's own stem cells is both a hot research topic and something that...

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