Learn about the latest medical breakthroughs by participating in webinars on topics surrounding disease, prevention and treatment in accordance with the latest research in health and medicine. Updates encompass a biological, psychological and sociological understanding of health.
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...
Antibiotic treatment failure poses a burden on global public health systems. Bacteria can acquire mutations and extrachromosomal genes that allow them to be resistant to our existing drugs....
Date: August 31, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Antibodies are specialized proteins generated by an immune system in response to disease and infection. The staining ge...
Date: August 18, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) Learning Objectives Discuss evolving etiologies for Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) Review the role of biomarkers in...
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: July 20, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Have your research results or laboratory processes been bogged down by poor staining quality of histology slides? We all k...
Date: July 19, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Cryo-EM is rapidly becoming the method of choice for structural biologists and biochemists around the world, helping thes...
Date: May 25, 2022 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT), 3:00pm (CEST) This webinar aims to: Raise awareness for risks to mothers and babies with CMV infection Outline diagnostic and disease man...
Microfluidic Tech has served millions of lives through the Biotech industry, whether in life science research or clinical diagnostics. Most of these technologies are spawned at academic and...
A biobank is a laboratory facility that accepts, processes, stores, and distributes samples and data, for use by research institutions. The role is to store these collections and to keep bio...
As regulatory requirements continue to evolve, and instrumentation becomes more sophisticated, laboratories find themselves managing increasing amounts of data, a comprehensive data manageme...
The global pandemic has increased focus and scrutiny on molecular diagnostic assay development, resulting in a need for assays that provide quick results while delivering expected performanc...
Current drug discovery workflows rely on the synthesis and bioactivity assessment of large compound libraries, both processes which heavily depend on high-throughput (HT) experimentation to...
When designing or implementing laboratory automation, we often have a fully automated end-goal in mind. We dream of leveraging automation to enable processes that run uninterrupted, preferab...
Cancers are genetic diseases driven by recurrent sets of somatic mutations. Different mutations associate statistically with distinct disease risks and can therefore be useful prognostic mar...
Date: May 17, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) Monoclonal antibody (mAb) is generated from a single clone of an antibody-producing cell and recognizes one specific epitop...
Date: May 12, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CET) The ability to move rapidly through the Design-Generate-Test-Learn (DGTL) cycle is essential for effective forward engineer...
Date: May 5, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) In a time when there is global urgency around producing and deploying as many COVID-19 vaccines as...
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that emerged in late 2019 has spread globally, causing a pandemic of respiratory illness designated coronavirus disease 2019...
Since the initial COVID-19 outbreak, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has mutated, resulting in a range of variants. SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, exemplified most recently with Omicron, need to be de...
The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has led to a worldwide pandemic. Beside respiratory symptoms, infected people may develop neurologic dysfunctions such as loss of smell and taste, also seizures, a...
During the first year of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, international monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 genomic RNA revealed that the virus accumulated roughly 2 mutations per month. Nonetheless, one nonsy...
During COVID-19, he has been one of the leaders of institutional and community education around the disease. He has been part of numerous University initiatives including outreach to the Asi...
Diagnostics have never been more important or visible on the world stage as they are today in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Mara will speak about how COVID diagnostics have been...
According to published literature, up to 65% of errors occur in the preanalytical phase of laboratory testing, and coagulation assays are particularly sensitive to preanalytical issues......
Date: April 28, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CET) During previous webinars we have discussed the global impact of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) infections, explored biolo...
Date: April 27, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Abnormal accumulation of misfolded tau protein in filaments characterizes more than 20 neurodegenerative diseases—c...