Jae Cameron and

Shannon Rowan

• Stem Cells are the embryo cells from the blastula.

• A blastula is a group of unspecialized cells that come from a non-formed baby.

• The blastula has about 200 to 250 unspecialized cells.

• When the cells divide, they can become another specialized cell or they can stay a stem cell.

• The embryonic cell can transform into any type of tissue found in the body.

• Stem cells can divide without having done anything in a while.

Stem cells can repair pretty much any tissue.

The cells are like an internal robot repairing your damaged tissues.

The cells can only be good when the person or unborn baby (not out of womb yet) is alive.

Stem cells can help cure diabetes. They can also help cure heart disease. Stem cells can also help you walk. The stem cells can make enough red and

white blood cells to reduce illness.

Some stem cells are found in the gut or bone marrow.

Stem cells are necessary if the bone marrow isn't working.

These cells are used to replace and repair bad tissues.

Some of these stem cells are found from unborn babies.

Some of these stem cells are taken from the umbilical cord and these are considered adult cells.

These adult stem cells are harder to become any cell.

• The stem cells can become any cell in the human body.•A large number of cells can be grown from a laboratory.

• The safety and effectiveness are not known. • They are very difficult to contain.•They can grow into tumors that are already there.•They can change into cells that they weren't supposed to.•The patient’s immune system doesn’t always take the stem cells.

advantages disadvantages

• The stem cells have been used in humans for over 30 years.• The patient's immune system doesn’t reject the cells.•The cells doesn’t grow into tumors that are already there (well they are less likely).•The adult stem cells are easier to control.

•They are limited on what the can become tissue wise.•They are more difficult to grow in laboratories.

advantages disadvantages

This is a diagram of the cloning of

stem cells

Stem cells are grown in the lab. Once the cells are fully grown in the lab,

they are ready for you. The doctor injects them into the area

that need the stem cells.

Some people think that some ways of getting stem cells are murder.

The people think that when the people get pregnant to kill the baby for stem cell it is murder.

Then again some people don’t think that way.

The people don’t consider all the methods to get stem cells is murder.

They only consider the creation of life and then killing it as murder.

The picture on the front slide http://healthcare.zdnet.com/?p=629o Information: http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/ ,

http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/sci/A0907292.html , http://www.vescell.com/stem-cell-information.php ,

Diagram: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44251000/gif/_44251016_stem_cells_416.gif

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