文档介绍：Cell Stem Cell
ISSCR: Meeting Report
Stem Cells in 2009
Ronald D. McKay,1,* Derek van der Kooy,2 Thomas P. Zwaka,3 and Haifan Lin4
1National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892-3703, USA
2University of Toronto, 160 College St, Toronto, ON M5S 3E1, Canada
3Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, Houston, TX 77030, USA
4Yale University School of Medicine, 10 Amistad Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
*Correspondence: ronaldmckay@
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There is intense contemporary interest in the identity, stability, and potential of stem cells, in the body or in the
lab. The prehensive view provided by the 7th annual meeting of the ISSCR provides a frame-
work to summarize recent progress.
More than 3100 researchers traveled to Barcelona in July for the psychiatric disability, Rett syndrome. Fred ‘Rusty’ Gage (Salk
2009 annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Institute, La Jolla) discussed a novel function of MeCP2 in the
Research. To reflect the enthusiasm of this young and rapidly developing brain. Long interspersed nuclear elements-1 (Line-
growing scientific society, we use a style that is informal but 1 or L1) are derived from retrotransposons and represent
hopefully informative to summarize the main themes that were >15% of the human genome. When they are transcribed, these
discussed. The meeting star