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- 1. An interdisciplinary branch of medicine with the goal of replacing, regenerating or repairing damaged tissue to restore normal function. Regenerative treatments can include cellular therapy, gene therapy and tissue engineering approaches.
- 5. A common connective or support cell found within most tissues of the body.
- 8. A pill, injection or other treatment that has no therapeutic benefit; often used as a control in clinical trials to see whether new treatments work better than no treatment.
- 11. The travel to another state, region or country specifically for the purpose of undergoing a stem cell treatment available at that location. This phrase is also used to refer to the pursuit of untested and unregulated stem cell treatments.
- 13. of an organism prior to birth or hatching
- 14. The single cell formed when a sperm cell fuses with an egg cell.
- 16. A commonly used term for tissue-specific stem cells, cells that can give rise to the specialized cells in specific tissues. Includes all stem cells other than pluripotent stem cells such as embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells.
- 17. Cells or tissues from the same individual; an autologous bone marrow transplant involves one individual as both donor and recipient.
- 18. A special type of cell division in stem cells by which they make copies of themselves.
- 20. the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones
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- 2. sequence of events involved in the development of a species
- 3. The process by which cells become increasingly specialized to carry out specific functions in tissues and organs.
- 4. Stem cells that can give rise to the specialized cells in specific tissues; blood stem cells, for example, can produce the different types of cells that make up the blood, but not the cells of other organs such as the liver or the brain.CYTOPLASM
- 6. In the context of stem cell biology, this refers to the conversion of differentiated cells, such as fibroblasts, into embryonic-like iPS cells by artificially altering the expression of key genes.
- 7. Scientific term for tissue-specific or adult stem cells.
- 9. the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms
- 10. The ability to modify the immune system or an immune response.
- 12. an undifferentiated cell whose daughter cells may differentiate into other cell types (such as blood cells)
- 15. A group of cells with a similar function or embryological origin. Tissues organize further to become organs.
- 19. an animal organism in the early stages of growth.