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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?
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Teacher Note
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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)
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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 a frog egg and cells from an adult frog to show that the adult cell nucleus can replace the egg nucleus and then develop normally into a tadpole then frog.
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Frog Eggs
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Adult Frog
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- Shinya Yamanaka (a Japanese scientist) in 2006 identified just 4 proteins are required to turn any cell into a stem cell.
Induced Stem Cells
University Level Information
Embryonic Stem Cells
Human Blastocyst (Carnegie Stage 3)
Adult Stem Cells
Induced Stem Cells
Induced Stem Cells
External Links
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Cite this page: Hill, M.A. (2024, April 26) Embryology K12 Stem Cells. Retrieved from https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/K12_Stem_Cells
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