stem cell

1. What are the different kinds of stem cells? Describe each.

2. Describe the symptoms of Sickle Cell anemia? What causes sickle cell and why does that make it difficult to treat and impossible to cure?

3. Who created IPS stem cells? How did he determine the key genes? How long did it take? How many were there? Describe the process to make skin cells into IPS cells. What important breakthrough occurred in three different labs a year later?

4. Who used IPS cells to cure sickle cell in mice? What steps did they have to go through?

5. How do these IPS cells become cancerous? What are techniques that are being used to fix this?

Promises and Dangers of Stem Cell Therapies and two articles

6. What does he say are the dangers of stem cell therapies in America now?

7. How many Stem cell therapies are FDA approved? Which? Look it up.

8. What happened to the woman with the stem cell face lift? What went wrong?

9. What about the 3 people in Florida who went blind? What went wrong there?

10. What are the dangers of our current lack of regulation of stem cell therapies?