Sickle-cell mice cured with their own cells

Link:http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/dn13007-sicklecell-mice-cured-with-their-own-cells.html

Summary: The article is about mice with the blood disorder Sickle-cell anaemia who were cured with stem cells, but even bigger is the fact that they retrieved the cells from the mouses tail, avoiding the ethically controversial alternative of deriving them from embryos. The problem with using this in human is they can't use viruses to ferry the reprogramming genes into cells because it may cause Cancer later in life.


Explain the phenomenon being described in the article. The phenomenon described in this article is the transformation of tissue cells into stem cells which can be used to treat diseases.


What is the difference between a genotype and a phenotype? Phenotype is physical such as eye color and genotype is the code that tells what the phenotype is such as Tt

List three things you learned from this article in your own words. Stem cells can cure some diseases, tissue cells can be turned into stem cells, their is a way to get stem cells without using embryos


What impact would the not understanding genetics have on medicine or agriculture? Without understanding genetics, genetic diseases would not be identified leaving many infants dead.