Information and Videos on Stem Cell Topics

These links and animations can help you learn about current biology topics, including recent developments in treatment of diseases. They are great to use as references for student reports and projects, and please remember to cite them properly. Stay tuned for more topics!

Topics (click to jump to the section):

Alzheimer’s Disease
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Angiogenesis
Batten’s Disease
Bone Marrow Transplant
Cancer
Chromatin
Crohn’s Disease
Clonal Selection Theory
Cloning
Diabetes (Type 1)
Differentiation
 

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Alzheimer’s Disease

• /our-progress/video/neural-stem-cells-reverse-alzheimers-symptoms
• /our-progress/video/spotlight-alzheimers-disease-frank-laferla-phd

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

• http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/amyotrophiclateralsclerosis/detail_ALS.htm
• https://login.medscape.com/login/sso/getlogin?urlCache=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5tZWRzY2FwZS5jb20vdmlld2FydGljbGUvNDk2NzMy&ac=401
• Proposed project using stem cells to derive transplants for a therapy:
  http://www.news-medical.net/news/2007/07/31/28190.aspx

Angiogenesis

• Follow the link above to the subsection “Angiogenesis/Metastasis” and click on the ‘view animation’ link for the 1st video titled “Angiogenesis” created by Drew Berry.
• Also view the 2nd animation titled “Angiogenesis” created by Greg Leuenberger/Sabertooth Productions.
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17218399 (abstract)

Batten’s Disease

• Spotlight on Batten Disease

Bone Marrow Transplant

• http://www.childrenshospital.org/conditions-and-treatments/treatments/pediatric-stem-cell-transplantation/overview

Cancer

• /our-progress/stem-cell-definitions
• /our-progress/video/catriona-jamieson-talks-about-therapies-based-cancer-stem-cells

Chromatin

• View the animation under the subsection “DNA/Chromatin” titled “Chromatin,” created by Drew Berry:
  • http://www.sciencemag.org/content/310/5753/1487.full

Crohn’s Disease

• View the animation titled “Crohn’s Disease” created by Gardenia Gonzalez Gil and Living Pixels:
  http://www.livingpixels.net/crohn.html

Clonal Selection Theory

• View the animation titled “Clonal Selection Theory” created by Etsuko Uno:
  http://www.molecularmovies.com/showcase/#Disease / Immune System

Cloning

• http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/redirect.shtml
• http://www.genome.gov/10004765 

Diabetes (Type 1)

• https://www.cirm.ca.gov/Spotlight_Diabetes_Butler
• https://www.cirm.ca.gov/Spotlight_Diabetes_Baetge

Differentiation

• Scroll down to bullet “c” titled “what is known about adult stem cell differentiation”:
  http://stemcells.nih.gov/info/basics/pages/basics4.aspx