Basics of Stem Cells | Adult Stem Cells | Stem Cell Uses | Miscellaneous |
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This type of cell can self-renew, has plasticity, and can differentiate into other types of cells
What is a stem cell?
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Types of stem cells found in everyone's body
What are adult stem cells?
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The most common type of stem cells used in therapies
What are adult stem cells?
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Type of potency of adult stem cells
What is pluripotent?
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The ability of stem cells to continue to grow and divide into more stem cells, making them essentially immortal
What is self-renewal?
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Steve the stem cell is this kind of cell
What is a mesenchymal stem cell?
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Type of adult stem cell can help repair bone
What are mesenchymal stem cells?
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The ability to make many types of cells, but not all types
What is multipotentcy?
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These are the three types of stem cells
What are adult, embryonic, and induced pluripotent?
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Adult stem cells do NOT get activated in this bodily state
What is homeostasis?
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The easiest place to harvest stem cells
What is bone marrow?
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This uses stem cells to make new limbs
What is a gecko?
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The process of a stem cell turning into another type of cell or another stem cell is
What is differentiation?
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Specialized places where adult stem cells are found
What are stem cell niches?
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Tool used to harvest stem cells from bone marrow
What is the marrow miner?
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Types of stem cells that cannot be found in the body
What are induced pluripotent stem cells
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