June 24, 2005 -- There is a huge difference between the vibrant, active stem cell meeting now underway in San Francisco and a recent genomics meeting, which felt like a ghost town in an urban exhibition hall. The momentum has clearly shifted to stem cells. The International Society of Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) 3rd annual conference being held in San Francisco this week feels like the genome meetings back in the late ‘90s - everyone is excited about the tremendous promise of things to come. We look at the cross-currents evident at the meeting...
