Date: November 13, 2020 10:00am PST, 1:00pm EST Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is currently a global pandemic, but human immune responses to the virus remain poorly understood....
Eleven years ago LabRoots launched a new system of learning for a global scientific audience. Now, the 2020 Clinical Diagnostics and Research Virtual Event Series...
With QCI services your clinical lab can enable a seamless fastq to clinical report workflow. We provide services such as cloud based variant calling and automated upload of the data to the Q...
What if your lab could perform exome sequencing with the same sensitivity and efficiency of targeted sequencing? The new integrated QIAseq Human Exome TR Insights solution from QIAGEN delive...
Today's presentation will cover the following topics from the perspective of a NYC based Laboratory: What have we learned year to date about CoV-2 and specifically how diagnostic testing...
As many parts of the northern hemisphere move into the colder months and indoors, SARS CoV-2 has begun a second infection wave that has exceeded the first surge of cases in many global regio...
Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) is a key analyte for liquid biopsy samples. Due to extremely low concentration and high degree of fragmentation, the extraction of cfDNA is technically challenging. Her...
Testing volumes need to increase by orders of magnitude in order to restore communities back to normality. This workshop focuses on solutions that equip laboratories to participate in expand...
Date: November 12, 2020 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) Vaccine development, disease diagnosis and early medical intervention are all supported by Raman spectroscopy. This tool provides ri...
In 2012, the Choosing Wisely initiative was commenced by the ABIM with numerous societies putting forward lists of overused tests or procedures. The Choosing Wisely movement has spread to nu...
Date: November 12, 2020 Time: 7:00am (PST), 10:00am (EST), 3:00pm (BST), 4:00pm (CET) Cell sorting is used for a wide range of applications, from profiling immune subsets to sorting cancer c...
The nuclear proliferation biomarker Ki-67 has multiple potential roles in breast and other cancers, both as a prognostic but also predictive marker. However, several studies have shown that...
Roche and Labroots are pleased to announce the first-ever global DISCOVERY user symposium. This two-day event will take place November 12-13, 2020 and will focus on advancements in tissue res...
The development of many different chromogens for light microscopy gives us the opportunity to explore different usage of multiplex immunohistochemistry (IHC) for clinical diagnostic purposes...
Point-of-care testing (POCT) is destined to play a much greater role in chronic disease diagnosis and management. Advanced POCT systems are being developed to deliver less costly and more ac...
Patient laboratory test results are significantly over-represented in electronic medical records, but significantly under-utilized in research. An important application of laboratory data is...
Multiplexing IHC is a technique that is increasing in demand as more and more researchers and physicians are being tasked with doing more with less. With multiplexing, you have the advantage...
Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is used to determine spatial relationships where we can identify the localization of target proteins in specific regions and cells of a tissue. IHC has been the go...
Cancer cells can acquire immune resistance resulting in a loss of immunosurveillance. Tumor cells can upregulate PDL-1 which binds to PD-1. This complex inhibits CD8 Tumor Infiltrating cells...
The opioid crisis has put significant strain on the healthcare system and resources, including the clinical laboratory which has seen significant increases in requests for urine drug screeni...
Biomarkers play a vital role in disease detection and treatment follow-up. It is important to note that the diseases in the early stage are typically treated with the greatest probability of...
Cases of traumatic brain injury (TBI) have been steadily rising over the past decade with most common causes of injury observed among participants in contact sports, combat military personne...
Clinical Laboratories have the opportunity to support value based health care by aligning with organizational strategies that focus on population health and creating meaningful insights usin...
DATE: November 10, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PT, 12am ET Gene Synthesis ensures fast access to nearly any DNA sequence, regardless its origin or complexity. Its reliability, flexibility and fast tur...
DATE: November 10, 2020 TIME: 7:00am PDT, 10:00am EDT Automation can provide tremendous benefits such as increased pipetting precision and accuracy, productivity, and throughput. Numerous wo...
Date: November 10, 2020 Time: 5:00am (PST), 8:00am (EST), 2:00pm (CET) Dr. Stefan Zimmermann will talk about the use of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy for fast and reliable typing o...
Date: November 9th, 2020 Time: 10:00am PDT SARS-CoV-2 continues to spread rapidly with critically ill patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), where the mortality rate is reported...
DATE: November 5, 2020 TIME: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) With accelerating development and approval of cell therapies, biologic drugs, and antiviral treatments comes a need for more robust a...
LabRoots is pleased to announced the 1st Annual Event in the Opioid Crisis Virtual Event Series taking place on November 3, 2020. The Opioid epidemic has been called the worst drug crisis...
More than 50,700 Americans died of opioid overdose in 2019, and more than 1.6 million Americans live with addiction to opioids. Moreover, more than 50 million Americans suffer from chronic p...
The opioid crisis is a uniquely American challenge. Many factors catalyzed this national nightmare and others continue to fuel it. This presentation delves into some of the major contributor...