The best tweets of ISSCR 2012
Summary of my favorite tweets from ISSCR 2012 Annual Meeting - Yokohama, June 13-16
Narry Kim: Lin28 switches TUT4 from mono-uridylating to oligo-uridylating let-7, from promoting to inhibiting Dicer processing. #isscr2012
New this year: Tweet your questions for the Career Event panelists using the #isscr2012 hashtag!
Metformin (!) facilitates anthracycline-mediated killing of cancer stem cells in xeno models. K Struhl #ISSCR2012- Struhl: Cancer stem cell formation occurs by loss of miR200. miR200 represses polycomb complex. #isscr2012
- Kevin Struhl reminds audience that epigenetic inheritance is controlled primarily by transcriptional regulation, not chromatin. #isscr2012
The #ISSCR2012 tweet stream is dominated by advertising. Boohiss #whereisthescience?- Takanori Takabe showed vascularization of iPS cell-derived "liver buds": first step in organ development for transplantation. #isscr2012
#ISSCR2012 - hows the meeting? Good? Bad? Take our poll! Surprising results so far bit.ly/KWwWVL #stemcell #stemcells- The Wakayama lab developed an affordable method for fluorescent imaging. Read Paul's post on the Node: fb.me/1QU1OEzZo
- James O'Malley summarizes the first day of the ISSCR Meeting in Yokohama. #ISSCR2012 fb.me/TkjYpO4g
- Sorry for lack of updates: It's really hard to livetweet #isscr2012 because there's no wifi in most of the seminar rooms... #delayedtweet
#isscr2012 sooo many ways to transdifferentiate to neurons. Why aren't all cancers neurons?? Lol- "At the heart of all human translational research lie *unresolvable* ethical challenges." J Solbakk, ethicist/theologian #ISSCR2012
- Takanori Takabe showed vascularization of iPS cell-derived "liver buds": first step in organ development for transplantation. #isscr2012
- Day 2 of the ISSCR Meeting covered translation of stem cells to the clinic. Dongjin Lee wrote a summary. #ISSCR2012 fb.me/1vZaaNxNn
- "ISSCR has a responsibility to speak out against ridiculous, irresponsible, and morally inferior stem cell therapies." J Solbakk #ISSCR2012
- "Evidence often overcomes belief... except in a church." - Irv Weissman #ISSCR2012 Got a good laugh. :)
#isscr2012 panel on ethics: is the use of small animal models actively inhibiting translation into the clinic?- "I personally believe IRBs should be some kind of pain in the ass." J Solbakk #ISSCR2012
- #isscr2012 K Matthews points out, data sharing is expensive. how do we pay for it? Will scientists deposit their data then pay to access it?
Sipp: we need to be clear to public that stem cell research is an open question, with no predictable outcome #ISSCR2012- #isscr2012 ethics panel: Competition between labs discouraging sharing and burden of review process are two top barriers to data sharing.
- Jaenisch: reprogramming should use downstream, not upstream factors; shows Yamanaka-free recipe #ISSCR2012
- MSC = mesenchymal stem cells... or magical stem cells? Jury's still out. Little long-term engraftment, no homing to GVHD tissue. #ISSCR2012
#isscr2012 ethics: "millions of people are watching this play called stem cell research"
