Meeting report from the Euroscicon event: 29th June 2012, London, UK Chairs: Dr Vivienne Levy, Councillor, New Zealand Society of Forensic Odontology, NZ and Dr Phil Marsden, President, The British Association for Forensic Odontology, UK Author: Gavin Latin, Newcastle University, UK Editors: Dr Astrid Englezou, Dr Adaora Okechuku and Dr Shara Cohen Click here for [...]
There is such an enormous amount of information about food available to the general public that it would be impossible to summarise or discuss its significance in one book. Instead this book looks at contemporary food issues starting with how modern food is produced/manufactured, then discussing what we should be eating and why we are easting [...]
Abstracts and Posters from the 22nd February 2008 meeting in Hertfordshire, UK Chair: Professor George Salmond, University of Cambridge, UK Editors: Dr Nicholas Warrick and Dr Shara Cohen Bacteriophages (phages) are obligate molecular parasites of their hosts, the bacteria and they are, arguably, the most abundant biological entities on Earth. Many years of basic research on the nature of [...]
When you read articles on how to boost your immune system, do you wonder what it is going on behind the scenes – what you are actually boosting? • What does your immune system actually do and how does it do it? • Why should you boost your immune system? Using non-scientific and non-medical terms, [...]
This is a summary of the Euroscicon event which took place in London on the 9th of March 2012 in London. The meeting was chaired by Dr John Davis, Chairman of the UK Branch of the European Society for Animal Cell Technology. Click here to purchase the report on UK Amazon Kindle Click here to purchase [...]
Proceedings from the 27th April 2007 meeting at The BioPark Hertfordshire, UK “Much of the promise of stem cell biology and tissue engineering depends on the ability to maintain and differentiate cells into tissues in a robust and reproducible manner. We are only just at the beginning of understanding how to control cell growth in vitro [...]
Proceedings from the February 2nd 2007 meeting in London, UK “The main goal of this meeting was to get together clinical and basic immunologists trying to gather insights into the pathogenic mechanisms of human diseases and immunotherapy. Due to the limitations of the human system, these investigations often rely on the use of animal models [...]
Proceedings from the 23rd March 2007 meeting in Hertfordshire, UK “Nitric oxide (NO), generated by the enzyme nitric oxide synthase (NOS) plays a key role in a diverse range of physiological and pathophysiological conditions within the cardiovascular, immune, reproductive and nervous systems. Since NO is a small, diffusible, highly reactive free radical with a short [...]
Proceedings from the 16th March 2007 meeting in Hertfordshire, UK “The diversity of T cell subsets and functions makes it imperative that they can be identified, characterised, propagated, traced in vivo and their function elucidated effectively. This one day EuroSciCon meeting provided the ideal opportunity to hear both the commercial companies presenting new [...]
