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Approximately 1 out of every 3 children with epilepsy do not respond to conventional medications, resulting in significant disruption in quality of life. The CDC states that one in 54 childr...
Cannabis testing laboratories play a pivotal role in today’s cannabis industry. These laboratories test a wide-ranging list of compounds, including cannabinoids, terpenes, and a multit...
The use of medically unsupervised cannabis use is exponentially growing in the USA. Healthcare providers need to not only recognize this fact but embrace it with the goal of avoiding drug-dr...
Too often, cannabis labs are trying to open for business without the solid foundation of an ISO management system. This afterthought is detrimental to labs’ short and long term success...
The purpose of the project was to provide a straightforward way to develop analytical methods for terpene analysis. Terpene analysis can be a difficult proposition and having a basic underst...
The growth of the cannabis / hemp industries in the United States has been tremendous. Legalization efforts continue in many states with a consistent eye on Federal legalization. As a gauge...
AOAC approvals benefit the cannabis industry by providing you third party independent validation to authenticate package insert claims and the test kit performance providing confidence and b...
Over the past few years there has been an increased interest in the role of cannabis for treating medical conditions. Attitude towards cannabis has evolved rapidly with the expanding legaliz...
The utilization of high fidelity long read sequencing is critical for the resolution of repetitive genomes. Cannabis sativa is known to be diploid (2n=20), 70% repetitive, 64% AT rich and 1%...
The strong growth in cannabis has led to scaled challenges. As industry has experimented and grown, producers of cannabis oil, both CBD and THC, have started to regularly implement adsorptio...
Terpenes are a broad class of chemicals that are found throughout the Cannabis plant that produce the unique aroma and taste of your favorite variety. Cannabis breeders have been selecting f...
The cannabis market is rapidly growing as legalization continues to increase across the United States and Internationally. As a result, an influx of different types of cannabis infused edibl...
As the cannabis analytical market matures so do the requirements for quality assurance testing. This presentation will include an introduction to proficiency testing and how it applies to th...
Role of a Cannabis LIMS in Achieving ISO/IEC 17025 Compliance ISO/IEC 17025:2017 is an international accreditation used to standardize the practices of cannabis testing laboratories. ISO/IEC...
Accurate and reliable analytical cannabinoid potency data is essential to operating a compliant, consistent, and profitable cannabis company. Third-party testing labs service this industry n...
From seed to sale, from accurate cannabis potency profiles to reliable, highly sensitive pesticide analysis, the Cannabis and Hemp industries have a demand for robust testing that delivers d...
Most Cannabis testing laboratories perform a variety of tests, full analysis for production QA/QC, and contract commercial testing, while others focus on extraction or purification only, or...
Genetics may influence experience with cannabis and CBD. With increased access to legal cannabis and the research community expanding their focus on the medicinal uses of cannabinoids, more...
Currently in the cannabis industry, there are many different regulations and guidelines. From the federal level with the USDA and DEA, to each individual state, testing laboratories and thei...
Date: March 22, 2021 Time: 8:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT Viral diversity presents an ongoing challenge for diagnostic tests, which must be designed to accurately detect all current and future circ...
DATE: March 18, 2021 TIME: 8:00am PDT Sequencing of bulk cells, single cells, and nuclei is opening doors in the understanding of complex biological processes....
Date: March 17, 2021 Time: 08:00am (PST) Research focused on SARS-CoV-2 has become a primary focus in genomic and molecular biology fields. With a constantly changing field with new methods...
Date: March 16, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PST) Scientific progress and breakthroughs today are often too expensive for most institutions to acquire. Each year, the National Institutes of Health (N...
Date: March 16, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) An important lesson learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is how critical the microbiology laboratory is to ensuring hospitals have surg...
High throughput purification is a critical step for antibody engineering and screening. Protein purification using traditional protein A resin columns is limited by throughput and a complica...
Single-cell gene expression analysis helps biologists and bioinformaticians reveal complex and rare cell populations, uncover regulatory relationships among genes and analyze and visualize g...
This talk reviews the advances in the field of Proteolysis Targeting Chimeras (PROTACs). It is divided to five topics: (1) Ligand-induced Target Protein Destabilization; (2) Small-Molecule L...