When you cut yourself, your body's defences are rapidly initiated at the wound site. Your own natural stem cells are recruited to make new skin. Different kinds of stem cells are present in each of your body organs to repair damaged tissue. These are adult stem cells. Scientists are excited about harnessing the power within these special cells to create more organic ways of treating different diseases. Reinforcing the body's own therapeutic strategies has many advantages over traditional chemical treatments, for example chemotherapy, which can be devastating for patients.
What do stem cells do?
LAST EVENTS
EpiGeneSys Final
Meeting in Paris
Thur. 11 February 2016 - Sat. 13 February 2016
More than 280 scientists attended the fifth Annual Meeting of EpiGeneSys. The conference kicked off with a talk by coordinator Geneviève Almouzni, Director of the Research Center at the Institut Curie, highlighting the achievements of the network over more than five years...
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The Non-Coding Genome ...
December 3-4 th, 2015
The last training workshop of the EpiGeneSys network
Hotel Mediterraneo - Rome, Italy Read more
Paris / TriRhena Chromatin Club
July 9th, 2015
...exciting talks and network with members of the Chromatin community!
ParisRead more
... An EpiGeneSys TAB workshop
June 11st-12nd , 2015
... learn about current approaches to single cell epigenetics and to meet up and network with...
Montpellier, FranceRead more
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