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The striking conservation between genes involved in cytokinesis and axonal elongation, as well as the morphological similarity between growth cones and migrating cells, raises the question o...
Get to know Luminex’s xMAP® Technology all over again. For 27 years, xMAP Technology has become known as the worldwide leader in bead-based multiplexing. With the new xMAP INTELLIF...
Date: September 21, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) This talk aims to describe a popular workflow that profiles specific brain cell types in healthy and diseased post-m...
α-synuclein (-syn) is a small presynaptic protein linked to the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease (PD) and related disorders, collectively called synucleinopathies. Phosphoryl...
Heterotetrameric adaptor protein (AP) complexes play key roles in protein sorting and transport vesicle formation in the endomembrane system of eukaryotic cells. One of these complexes, AP-4...
Within the kidney, the glomerulus is the structure in charge of the renal ultrafiltration. Loss of glomerular function leads to renal damage and could end with irreversible damage. The major...
Intracellular signaling processes are frequently based on direct interactions between proteins and organelles. A fundamental strategy to elucidate the physiological significance of such inte...
In the United States, prostate cancer (PCa) is the second-leading cause of cancer death in men. Multiple observations indicate the link between prostate carcinogenesis, stress of endoplasmi...
Cell migration is an essential process for many biological phenomena. It plays an important role in disease processes such as wound healing and cancer metastasis. The immune system, which pr...
Learning Objectives 1) Examine the importance of mechanical forces in cellular activities. 2) Evaluate current strategies for force measurement at the cellular and molecular level. 3) Elucid...
The use of primary human hepatocytes in basic research or other clinical applications (e.g., liver assist devices, ex vivo gene therapy, and hepatocyte transplantation) is limited by a short...
Human Allogeneic Liver-derived Progenitor Cells (HALPC; HepaStemTM) are an advanced therapy medicinal product composed of medicinal signaling cells derived and expanded from healthy human li...
One of the primary limitations in drug discovery and toxicology research is the lack of good model systems between the single cell level and animal or human systems. This is especially true...
Microphysiological systems (MPS) have proven to be a powerful tool for recreating human tissue- and organ-like functions. However, establishing complex human in vitro ADME models involving c...
Date: September 13, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) An estimated 49 million cases of sepsis occur globally each year with approximately 11 million deaths...
As obligate intracellular pathogens, viruses require host-derived nucleotides, amino acids, and lipids, among others, and the bioavailability of these metabolites can restrict or promote vir...
Date: September 06, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) provides comprehensive genomic information about disease, development, and other bi...
Macrophages have been implicated in both the resolution and progression of influenza, but the drivers of these outcomes are poorly understood. We probed mouse lung transcriptomic datasets us...
HIV-1 replicates in the body as a large viral population. Along with its high error rate during viral DNA synthesis and its short replication time (24 hours), the virus maintains sequence di...
Date: August 30, 2022 Time: 10:00am (CEST), 1:00am (PDT), 4:00am (EDT) Problem When it’s time for researchers to pick a protein or formulation, the best ones need to sweat it out at el...
Date: August 24, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00pm (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) Light field microscopy was first introduced in 2006, and allows users to capture the 4D light field within the microsco...
Date: August 18, 2022 Time: 3pm AEST | 1pm SGT | 2pm JP/KR Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homologue (KRAS) is the most frequently mutated oncogene, present in approximately 25% of tumors...
DATE: August 17, 2022 TIME: 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDT Detection and/or amplification of target DNA sequences by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a prevalent method in molecular biology. PCR...
Date: August 16, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) Understanding genomic variation in the context of cancer is paramount to identifying disease drivers and informing pers...
Date: August 16, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Physicians caring for expecting or pregnant mothers successfully manage pregnancy with the help of screening and diagno...
Date: August 10, 2022 Time: 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDT The global pandemic has increased focus and scrutiny on molecular diagnostic assay development, resulting in a need for assays that provid...