Stem cells

Maria Belen F. (Argentina)
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  1. stem cell
    an undifferentiated cell whose daughter cells may differentiate into other cell types (such as blood cells)
    After all, researchers have been injecting stem cells into paralyzed rats and watching their spinal cords mend.
  2. bone marrow
    the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones
    Opponents say the promise of embryo research has been oversold, and they point to the cures that have been derived from adult stem cells from bone marrow and umbilical cords; supporters retort that adult stem cells are still of limited use, and to fully realize their potential we would need to know more about how they operate--which we can learn only from studying leftover fertility-clinic embryos that would otherwise be thrown away.
  3. cell
    the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms
    After all, researchers have been injecting stem cells into paralyzed rats and watching their spinal cords mend.
  4. embryo
    an animal organism in the early stages of growth
    Opponents of ESC research--starting with Bush--argue that you can't destroy life in order to save it; supporters argue that an eight-cell embryo doesn't count as a human life in the first place--not when compared with the life it could help save.
  5. umbilical cord
    membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta
    Opponents say the promise of embryo research has been oversold, and they point to the cures that have been derived from adult stem cells from bone marrow and umbilical cords; supporters retort that adult stem cells are still of limited use, and to fully realize their potential we would need to know more about how they operate--which we can learn only from studying leftover fertility-clinic embryos that would otherwise be thrown away.
  6. embryonic
    of an organism prior to birth or hatching
    Last month, when President George W. Bush vetoed the bill that would have expanded funding for human embryonic-stem-cell (ESC) research, doctors got calls from patients with Parkinson's disease saying they weren't sure they could hang on for another year or two.
  7. paralyze
    cause to be immobile
    After all, researchers have been injecting stem cells into paralyzed rats and watching their spinal cords mend.
  8. spinal cord
    a major part of the central nervous system which conducts sensory and motor nerve impulses to and from the brain; a long tubelike structure extending from the base of the brain through the vertebral canal to the upper lumbar region
    After all, researchers have been injecting stem cells into paralyzed rats and watching their spinal cords mend.
  9. spinal
    of or relating to the spine or spinal cord
    After all, researchers have been injecting stem cells into paralyzed rats and watching their spinal cords mend.
  10. marrow
    network of connective tissue filling the cavities of bones
    Opponents say the promise of embryo research has been oversold, and they point to the cures that have been derived from adult stem cells from bone marrow and umbilical cords; supporters retort that adult stem cells are still of limited use, and to fully realize their potential we would need to know more about how they operate--which we can learn only from studying leftover fertility-clinic embryos that would otherwise be thrown away.
  11. paralysis
    loss of the ability to move a body part
    "Stem cells have already cured paralysis in animals," declared Christopher Reeve in a commercial he filmed a week before he died.
  12. scientist
    a person with advanced knowledge of empirical fields
    Scientists who are having surprising success with adult stem cells find their progress being used by activists to argue that embryo research is not just immoral but also unnecessary.
  13. dose
    a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time
    But what is the correct dose of hope when the diseases are dreadful and the prospects of cure distant?
  14. data
    a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
    Stem-cell research has joined global warming and evolution science as fields in which the very facts are put to a vote, a public spectacle in which data wrestle dogma.
  15. disease
    an impairment of health
    But what is the correct dose of hope when the diseases are dreadful and the prospects of cure distant?
  16. evolution
    sequence of events involved in the development of a species
    Stem-cell research has joined global warming and evolution science as fields in which the very facts are put to a vote, a public spectacle in which data wrestle dogma.
Created on Sat Nov 21 15:46:36 EST 2009

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