EuroSTELLS Workshop "Stem Cell Niches"
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This goal of this workshop was to provide a global view of stem cell regulation in different niches and featured the latest developments in this rapidly expanding field. There were three sessions: I) Stem cells - self renewal, differentation; II) Signaling pathways controling stem cell function - Notch, Wnt, BMP, hedgehog; and III) Normal and pathological stem cell niches -neural, haematopoietic, pancreas, intestine, teeth.
Read a meeting review of the workshop in Development; Stem Cell Researchers Find Their Niche, published by Tariq Enver and Elaine Dzierzak(EuroSTELLS PIs), Development 2008, 135 (1569-1573).
Media coverage:
Minister predicts role for stem cell biologists in re-shaped pharmaceutical industry
Stem cell research should have a bright future and could play an important role in tomorrow’s pharmaceutical industry, Spain’s Minister for Health told an international conference of stem cell biologists on January 11.
Stem cell research aims to tackle Parkinson’s disease
Scientists in Sweden are developing new ways to grow brain cells in the laboratory that could one day be used to treat patients with Parkinson’s disease, an international conference of biologists organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) was told.
Stem cells give clues to understanding cancer; make breakthrough in childhood leukaemia
Scientists in Switzerland are uncovering new clues about how cancer cells grow – and how they can be killed – by studying stem cells, ‘blank’ cells that have the potential to develop into fully mature or ‘differentiated’ cells and other scientists in UK have made a breakthrough in understanding the cause of the most common form of childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL).
