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Using stem cells for human therapy: cell replacement, drug screening and disease modelling
Dr Stephen Sullivan of Rockefeller University, New York discusses what are the special characteristics of stem cells, what the different types of stem cells are, and how each type is being used in different ways to treat human disease.
Dr Sullivan will highlight common mistakes made concerning stem cells in the media and will highlight the broader problem of the decline of fact based science journalism and the rise of unsubstantiated blogging and the particular problem this represents to medical decision making generally, and those involving stem cell therapy in particular.
Date: Wednesday 1st July 2009
Location:The Mercantile, Dame St, Dublin 2
Time: 8.00pm (Sharp)
Admission: Free - All Welcome!
In association with CPL and Discover Science & Engineering
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New Mailing List and Other News
The cafe has been quiet for the last while but we are working hard to get more speakers and cafes coming your way soon. Keep an eye on here, the cafe’s twitter feed, RSS feed or calendar. Don’t forget you can see video from our most recent cafes here.
Due to the sheer number of subscribers to the Alchemist Cafe mailing list we have moved it over to Google Groups. Also because of the amount of people on the list Google will not let us sign everyone up to the list automatically so if you were subscribed you will have received an email asking you to opt-in to the new mailing list. If you have not seen this email check your junk mail folder (it should be dated about the 30 April). If you can’t find the you can visit the groups home page and sign up there or email us directly at alchemistcafe@googlemail.com and we will sort you out.
Thanks to our friend Marek we now have a video from March’s Cafe.
Subjective experience and science(In two parts)
Part 1, The Talk:
Part 2, The Q&A:
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Alchemist Cafe RSS iCal feeds and Twitter
*Update*
The Alchemist Cafe can also be followed now on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/alchemist_cafe
If you want to keep up with upcoming events for the Alchemist Cafe we have three new ways outside our website and mailing list. We now have an RSS feed, Live Bookmarks and an iCalendar file which you can download.
The links for both are in the menu on the left and the menu at the bottom of the page.
For details on how to use the RSS feed and Live Bookmark see our information page here. The iCalendar file is for use with various calendar programs including Google Calendar, Apple’s iCal application, Lotus Notes, Mozilla Calendar (including Mozilla Sunbird), Mulberry, Novell Evolution, WebCalendar, Windows Calendar, and to some extent Microsoft Outlook.
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