ISSCR Round-up Take 2
Alexey Bersenev just sent in his detailed take on the ISSCR meeting, in which he also compiled a list of other blogs on the meeting. Thanks!
Just to keep the Nature comments on ISSCR in one place, here’s another list.
My speed-writing on impressions from ISSCR.
Nature’s Brendan Maher posted on Doug Melton’s talk on reprogramming in situ. Who needs pluripotency? Let’s go straight to the cells we need!
How do you know a reprogrammed cell is reprogrammed?
Scientists consider minimum standards for induced pluripotent stem cells
My blog post on the same topic links to articles on iPS cell advances.
Stem cell society condemns unproven treatments
The ISSCR is drawing up guidelines for clinical practice. How will patients and practitioners respond?
Read our feature Stem cell researchers face down stem cell tourism
Also, just weeks before the ISSCR meeting, stem cell researchers gathered for their version of summer camp, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium, where the ratio of content learned
Read my impressions.