Hosted by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), the Next Generation Sequencing Conference 2014 (NGS 2014) is a dedicated

Biologists want to create artificial living beings Do they have the knowledge and the tools to do it ? Will Synthetic Biology change our lives?
Which are the risks and benefits of this technology? And which are the ethical boundaries comprom at issue?

Read about it, think and come coffee scientific on May 21st with your questions!

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Are stem cells really a tool to cure human diseases? Are they found only in embryos or umbilical cord?

If adults have stem cells in their bodies, does it make sense to keep the umbilical cord stem cells at birth? What do scientists know exactly about stem cells nowadays? And what they don't know?

Come listen and ask whatever you want on this subjet to a panel of experts in a very different and innovative place, a bar run by a scientist doing research ...  on stem cells!

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El Centre de Regulació Genòmica (CRG), l’Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC) i l’Institut de Cultura de Barcelona (ICUB) organitzen una sèrie de quatre debats amb el títol «Neurociència i ... », en què tres ponents faran una presentació breu i a continuació es convidarà el públic assistent a participar en un debat obert.

OBJECTIVES

Big Data is the term for a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications (wikipedia)