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A stem cell dream: using iPS cells to treat disease

Last updated:
8 May 2012

A dialogue based event about the real issues in stem cell research. Can iPS cells – ‘hot stuff’ for researchers as it is one of the latest major breakthroughs in stem cell science – be used to treat disease like Parkinson’s? Can we develop safe treatments now? What does science say?

Recently staged at Bergamo Scienza and CCCB in Barcelona.

The eye and stem cells: the path to treating blindness

Last updated:
3 Apr 2012

Our eyes are only 2 or 3 centimetres across, but most of us rely on them in almost everything we do. Stem cell biologists hope the future may hold new treatments for diseases that cause loss of vision. So what progress has been made and what is current researched focussed on?

Science of the Future at London's Science Museum

Wed, 28/03/2012 - 8:34am — Emma

‘Regeneration is a swift but volcanic experience, a sort of violent biological eruption in which the body cells are displaced, changed, renewed and rearranged.’ Will stem-cell biologists make Time Lords of us all?

EuroStemCell is visiting the Science Museum in London this Wednesday 28 March to discuss the future of medicine with members of the public in an evening event.

** Update: We had great fun at the Science Museum lates. Find out more about how it went in our Twitter story below.

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