To execute COVID-19 testing strategies effectively, labs need to procure reliable components of the workflow without interruption – from reagents to equipment and consumables at the sc...
Dynamic models of infectious disease systems are often used to study the epidemiological characteristics of disease outbreaks, the ecological mechanisms and environmental conditions affectin...
Learning Objectives: 1. Define SARS-CoV-2 immunity, antibody testing, and discuss what is known about the meaning of these tests 2. Identify challenges in doing research during social distan...
This talk goes over the importance of face masks as a pillar of COVID-19 pandemic control. First, we review the epidemiologic evidence for how face masks reduce COVID-19 transmission from st...
Antibody tests are important tools to assess the efficacy of vaccine candidates and to derive suitable vaccination modalities. High specificity and sensitivity are of great importance for th...
In this talk, Dr. Adalja will discuss the coronavirus family in general highlighting its history. Emphasis will be placed on why this viral family has pandemic potential. Learning Objectives...
Learning Objectives: 1. Learn what RNA and DNA vaccines are and why they are ideal vaccine strategies to respond rapidly to pandemics 2. Understand the key requirements of an effective vacci...
Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) has been a key technology during the COVIID-19 pandemic and has helped researchers characterize the SARs-CoV-2 genome, perform strain-typing for molecular ep...
The fast spread and deadliness of SARS-CoV-2 has sparked much interest in understanding the underlying genomics and evolutionary patterns of this 30,000bp Coronavirus. Since the first report...
SARS-CoV-2 had spread with speed unknown in recent history across the globe, sickening >50M people and killing over 1M. By far the most of the severe cases and deaths were registered amon...
DATE: December 2, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PDT Pluripotent stem cell (PSC) research is a continuously evolving field that beholds great promises for the future. The great application potential of P...
DATE: December 2nd, 2020 TIME: 08:00am PDT, 11:00pm EDT Bioreactors and shakers are used to cultivate microorganisms, plant, insect, and mammalian cells in different volumes. Upscaling of pr...
DATE: December 1st, 2020 TIME: 01:00 PM - PDT, 3:00 PM - Bogotá / Ciudad de México, 5:00 PM - Buenos Aires / Sao Paulo La anemia es un trastorno que afecta principalmente c&eac...
Date: September 30, 2020 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Learning Objectives Why is Stewardship important? What are the core elements of stewardship and microbiology's role Importance...
Date: November 19, 2020 Time: 10:00am (PST), 1:00pm (EST) 98% of in-patients will undergo a diagnostic test during a hospital stay.[1] With the increased focus on the accuracy of diagnostic...
DATE: November 19, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PT, 12am ET Knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of therapeutically relevant targets has become an essential step in the pipeline of drug discove...
Date: November 19, 2020 Time: 8:00am PST, 11:00am EST Monoclonal antibody-based drugs have shown great potential as a treatment for several cancers. At Miltenyi Biotec, we offer a complete wo...
DATE: November 19, 2020 TIME: 7am PST Congenital CMV is the most frequent infectious cause of neonatal malformation in developed nations. Yet, this disease is largely under-recognized by hea...
Powering Exceptional Labs We are pleased to announce the Bio-Rad Quality Control Virtual Conference 2020 . This online event brings together Clinical Laboratory Professionals from around the...
Two aspects of the Cost of Quality are important in the medical laboratory—the theory behind the quality cost types and the application of those cost types to laboratory activities. Th...
Date: November 19, 2020 Time: 12:00am (PDT), 9:00am (CET), 4:00pm (SGT) We present split-FISH, a multiplexed fluorescence in situ hybridization method that leverages a split-probe design to...
DATE: November 18, 2020 TIME: 08:00am PDT We develop and implement technologies to solve some of the major bottlenecks in biomedical research. In particular, we establish new imaging approac...
DATE: November 18, 2020 TIME: 7:00am PST, 10:00am PST, 4:00pm CEST The assessment of cell health and cellular responses after experimental manipulation continue to be a very important......
Date: November 17, 2020 Time: 8:00am COVID-19 is a complex pathological condition caused by infection with SARS-CoV. Different features have been observed in patients with a severe dis...
Date: November 17, 2020 Time: 5:00am (PST), 8:00am (EST), 2:00pm (CET) Septicemia is a serious clinical condition with roundabout 123,000 cases of sepsis a year in England. In recent years t...
Date: November 16, 2020 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) CRISPR screening has become the prime discovery tool in modern biomedical research and drug discovery. At the same time, most screen...
Date: November 16, 2020 Time: 7:00am PDT So far, it has been estimated that 2 billion individuals have been infected by hepatitis B virus (HBV). Among them, 250 million have developed a chro...
DATE: November 16, 2020 TIME: 05:00am PST, 2:00pm CET It may be impossible to stop the inexorable move towards pandemic levels of diabetes, but we can improve the glycaemic control in our pa...