Biology A-Level
Medical and therapeutic applications
What Medical and therapeutic applications means in Biology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Medical and therapeutic applications
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Reference: OCR
Stem cells may be used to replace damaged or lost tissues, for example bone marrow transplants to restore blood cells, or potential therapies for repairing tissue such as nerve or heart tissue.
Topics that use Medical and therapeutic applications
- Cell division, cell diversity and cellular organisation (OCR A-Level)
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- Consequences of loss of cell-cycle control
- Cyclins and cyclin-dependent kinases
- differentiation
- DNA replication in S phase
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