3rd Disputationes 2012

Native and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Standardization

March 19-21, 2012, Florence, Italy

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Disputationes (a word in Latin language meaning “Discussing, Arguing”) is a self-sustaining multidisciplinary international initiative aimed at creating a dynamic forum to discuss, through a permanent series of internationally relevant sober meetings and publications, the hottest and most visionary subjects in the bio-medical field. Disputationes has the ambitious goal of eventually providing to all scientists, healthcare workers, policymakers and medical executives around the world, a face-to-face platform to exchange ideas, share update breakthroughs and promising solutions to most important issues in healthcare. In this respect, Disputationes will disseminate the knowledge permitting an equal access to the most advanced concepts and applicatory procedures by all individuals independently of their geographic and economic conditions in order to benefit disability and sustain advanced biomedical industries. In this context, a particular focus will be set on the convergence between bio-medicine and engineering stimulating scientist creativity and vision and indicating to industries future medicine scenarios for long-term strategies.

Words like regenerative medicine, information technology, advanced materials, imaging, nanotechnology, robotics, microelectronics and sophisticated modeling and simulation are now usual in biomedical research and clinical centers. In fact, the medical science of to-day embraces not only the knowledge of the living systems, but also of such facts, principles, and materials gathered from every other domain of human knowledge as may increase resources for preventing or alleviating man suffering and prolonging his life. Indeed, the most exciting feature in the science of medicine is the rapid accumulation of facts furnished by a vast number of individual researchers, each pushing investigations in some special direction, even if, sometimes, with poor concert and inadequate conception of the coincident lines of observation necessary to enable him to see the true bearing of the facts he evolves. .... More