Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Stem cells
- Medical
- Don't adhere to Hayflick limit
- Telomere
- Immortality
- Rejection
- Need similar DNA
- No need for immunosuppressants
- No secondary infection
- Treat illness
- Parkinsons
- Alzheimers
- Thalassaemia
- Undifferentiated
- Plants
- Meristem
- Animals
- Embryonic
- Totipotent
- Can become any cell
- Pluripotent
- Can become any cell that makes up an organism
- Not placenta
- Issues
- Ethics - is it destroying life?
- More useful for research & treatment
- Adult
- Multipotent
- Can become any cell of a specific type
- Unipotent
- Can become only one kind of cell
- Issues
- Difficult to find, identify & extract
- Used for growth & repair
- IPSCs