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Stem Cell Article (1) When were stem cells first taken from a human embryo? - In 1998 by Dr. Thomson in the University of Wisconsin

(2) Why is obtaining stem cells from a human embryo so controversial? - It is so controversial because when the stem cells are taken out of the human embryo because it destroys the embryo and later kills the baby. - its on the same lines of an abortion.

(3) What was/is the source of human embryos for stem cell research? - The fertility clinics.

(4) What is a stem cell? - the universal cells that can turn into any of the body's 220 cell types, normally emerge only fleeting after a few days of embryo development.

(5) What diseases do we think we could treat with stem cells? - Diseases like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's and other complex human diseases.

(6) Dr. Thomson is in the news again because he has turned ordinary skin cells into stem cells. How did he do this? -He did this by adding 4 genes to the cell and then the cell turned into something that looked exactly like Stem cells.