31. Stem Cell Topic: Private Sector Oversight
about the manner in which
stem cell research is proceeding.
There are other concerns
associated with sole reliance on private sector funding of stem cell
research. There is the very real
possibility that market forces and perceived investment
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32. Stem Cell Topic: Question: What's in the Petri Dish, Property or Person?
objects to treating stem cells as property.
"Human cells, tissues, and organs should not be commodities to be bought
and sold in a biotech slave market." He adds, "Some researchers have
established in their own minds an
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33. General Term: Differentiated Cells
Differentiated Cells Cells that are
specialized for a particular function (i.e. heart muscle or blood cell) and do
not maintain the ability to generate other kinds of cells, or revert back to a
less specialized cell (like stem cells
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34. Stem Cell Topic: Appendix I: Working Group Members
lead him to study ES cells as a potential model system. Together with colleagues at Washington
University, he demonstrated that ES cells could be efficiently differentiated into
neurons and glia. He is currently utilizing
this system to
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35. Stem Cell Topic: Cancer
present time, bone marrow stem cells ,
representing a more committed stem cell, are used to rescue patients following
high dose chemotherapy. Unfortunately,
these recovered cells are limited in their capacity to restore immune
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36. Genetics Topic: James Peterson
whether it is moral to use stem cells to help
people. The problem is where the stem cells come from. If stem cells could be
obtained from inessential cells of an adult, we could have a perfect tissue
match for the person being treated with no
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37. General Term: ES Cells
ES Cells Embryonic stem cells .
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38. General Term: hEG: Human Embryonic Germ Cells
hEG: Human Embryonic Germ Cells Pluripotent stem cells , derived from fetal tissue, that differentiate into
various tissues in the body.
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39. Stem Cell Topic: A New Window on Human Developmental Biology
limitations. Human ES cells
may allow scientists to investigate how early human cells become committed to
the major lineages of the body; how these lineages lay down the rudiments of
the bodys tissues and organs ; and
how cells
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40. Stem Cell Topic: Transplantation
Pluripotent stem cells could be
used to create an unlimited supply of cells, tissues, or even organs that could
be used to restore function without the requirement for toxic immuno-suppression
and without regard to tissue matching
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