EuroSciCon’s meeting, chaired by Professor Anne Dickinson (University of Newcastle), focused on the current advances in Tissue Engineering. Issues surrounding the use of embryonic and mesenchymal stem cells, immunological tolerance of stem cells and application of novel biomaterials, were discussed with clinical application in mind. The talks were opened by Dame Julia Polak (Imperial College, London) who introduced the issue of stem cells and regenerative medicine. The talk covered the major issues in regenerative medicine, which include the choice of cells and materials, the methods of scale-up, the choices for cell delivery and the requirements of pre-clinical and clinical phase applications.   more »

A report for this meeting will be posted here soon. The proceedings for this meeting are now available at: http://www.euroscicon.com/proceedings/avianinstructions.html   more »

This Euroscicon meeting provided an ideal forum for bench scientists to catch up with the commercial companies slant on technologies such as multiplex cytokine analysis, cytokine secretion assays and intracellular staining and to hear colleagues discuss the application of these techniques in areas such as tuberculosis in humans and cattle, HIV, autoimmunity and dendritic cell biology. The day started with two talks on detection of cytokines in tuberculosis (TB).   more »