2012-06-25
It Started with a Splash
On a very wet Sunday evening, Stem Cell Niche Conference participants from all over the world arrived to the Favrholm Campus just North of Copenhagen.
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Inside, an informal and relaxed atmosphere prevailed where scientist interacted across disciplines, groups, generations - and, as the evening progressed, across the European Football Championship quarter-final.
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The Stem Cell Niche Conference is the first in a series of high profile conferences initiated by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The conference focus on the local environment where stem cells reside - aka the stem cell niche - and the niche's role in instructing the stem cells to either self renew or differentiate.
The niche is important both during embryonic development, tissue homeostasis (re-generation) and during pathological conditions, such as in cancer, and therefore there is a great interest in the stem cell field to further characterize this niche as well as to understand how it controls stem cell behavior.
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