K12 Stem Cells

Introduction

Everywhere in the news today you here the word "Stem Cell", it appears in the news of science, medicine, politics, religion, ethics, law and just recently as the 2012 Nobel Prize. What are "stem cells" and why are they so important? Draft page. Content under development. K12 Links: Start Here | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 to 8 | Arms and Legs | Heart | Fetus | Brain Growth | Eyes and Ears | Animal Development Times | Humans and Animal Embryology | Comparative Embryology | Thalidomide Teacher Note This is currently only a draft designed to help K12 students understand comparative embryology. This is a very large topic, with many different concepts to explain. This page will focus mainly on the biological issues and even that may be beyond teh scope of a simple one page explanation. I am currently looking to simplify concepts and include images on this page. I am happy to receive feedback as too what you may like to be included here. I will also add some simple exercises that can be used in class to help understand concepts on stem cells. Note some of the links on this page leave the K12 notes section and may be beyond the level of your students, bookmark this page to easily return here. This page can be printed using the lefthand menu "Toolbox" or Printable version. --Mark Hill 09:25, 11 October 2012 (EST) The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2012 Awarded jointly to Sir John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka "for the discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed to become pluripotent." John Gurdon (a UK scientist) in the 1960's used nuclear transplantation and cloning to show that the nucleus of a differentiated somatic cell retains the totipotency necessary to form a whole organism. Shinya Yamanaka (a Japanese scientist) in 2006 identified 4 proteins required to turn any cell into a stem cell. Induced Stem Cells University Level Information Stem Cell Links: Introduction | Timeline | Placental Cord Blood | Adult | Induced pluripotent stem cell | Yamanaka Factors | Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer | Ethics | Organoids | Adult Human Cell Types | Category:Stem Cell Embryonic Stem Cells Human Blastocyst (Carnegie Stage 3) Adult Stem Cells Induced Stem Cells Induced Stem Cells External Links External Links Notice - The dynamic nature of the internet may mean that some of these listed links may no longer function. If the link no longer works search the web with the link text or name. Links to any external commercial sites are provided for information purposes only and should never be considered an endorsement. UNSW Embryology is provided as an educational resource with no clinical information or commercial affiliation. Boston Childrens Hospital - Stem Cell Timeline Cite this page: Hill, M.A. (2024, April 20) Embryology K12 Stem Cells. Retrieved from https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/K12_Stem_Cells What Links Here? © Dr Mark Hill 2024, UNSW Embryology ISBN: 978 0 7334 2609 4 - UNSW CRICOS Provider Code No. 00098G