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Combined Science: Biology

GCSE · Edexcel · foundation

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Disease
Defence Against Disease
Development of Medicines
- Antibiotics
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- Discovery & Development of New Drugs
  3
Non-Communicable Diseases
- Lifestyle & Non-Communicable Disease
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- Cardiovascular Disease
  6

The Organism in the Environment
Human Influences on the Environment
- Human Impact on Biodiversity
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- Benefits of Maintaining Biodiversity
  4
Cycles within Ecosystems

Stem Cells In Medicine Flashcards

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Give two conditions that stem cell therapy could be used to treat.: Diabetes and Parkinson's disease (also paralysis or arthritis).
Give two risks of using stem cell therapy to treat a patient.: The new cells may not function correctly, and the stem cells may keep dividing and develop into cancer. The patient may also reject the cells.
Give one benefit of reprogramming a patient's own adult cells to have the properties of embryonic stem cells.: Embryonic stem cells are not needed, so embryos are not destroyed (also: less chance of the patient rejecting their own cells).
Give one ethical objection to using embryonic stem cells in medicine.: Collecting the cells destroys the embryo, and some people believe every embryo is a potential human life.