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.
Quantitative genetic analysis plays a critical role in the research and development of novel biotherapeutics. As a sensitive and precise method for quantitating specific nucleic acid targets...
When building your own infectious disease molecular panels there are many paths to consider. In this interview, we ask Marcus Cognetti and Dr. Ari Frenkel what approach is required to create...
We will discuss the Digital LightCycler System, a digital PCR (dPCR) system for DNA and RNA with 6-color capability for flexible, multiplexed biomarker detection. With advances in sensitivit...
Acute cough is one of the most common reasons for consulting in primary care thus driving considerable antibiotic use and health-care costs. Currently, identification of microbial etiology i...
Molecular diagnostic assay development and design is no simple task, and several factors affect the performance and usability of a test. Diagnostic companies can enhance assay stability and...
Most internal organs consist of a monolayer of polarized epithelial cells surrounding a central lumen that establish a barrier that segregates the internal medium from the outside environmen...
Access to and experiences with healthcare continue to be inequitable worldwide even at the level of clinical laboratory testing. From building and sustaining a thriving, diverse workforce to...
SiO2 Materials Science is a company with deep roots in materials science and engineering and a track record of innovative packaging products for pharmaceutical drugs. The company also manufa...
Generating Insights into tissue microenvironments is crucial to our understanding of normal and abnormal tissue development such as during cancer progression. Spatial biology methods using m...
AAVs and LNPs are complementary gene transfer systems with respect to immunogenicity, tissue tropism and types of nucleic acids, which can be delivered. AUC provides a wealth of orthogonal a...
Numerous studies have shown that homologous recombination deficiency (HRD) is a genome-wide biomarker present in high grade ovarian and breast cancers. A cancer therapeutic class, PARP inhib...
Immunoassays and mass spectrometric assays are the two major methodologies in contemporary clinical chemistry laboratories. While immunoassays are highly automated and offer a faster turnaro...
Lateral flow assays (LFA) are simple diagnostic tools that can be used to detect a variety of biomolecules that include biomarkers, pathogens, and environmental contaminants. Many industries...
Despite an overall good performance on all laboratory procedures used to detect monoclonal (M) proteins or paraproteins, mis- or false-diagnoses have been seen using electrophoresis methods,...
Medical laboratories are an integral part of the healthcare system. They supply crucial diagnostic data that underpins disease detection, patient care, and public health management....
This talk will describe the role of the clinical lab in advancing health equity. It will define the gaps in equitable access to lab testing and how that impacts patient care. We will also co...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a widespread global health concern, impacting approximately 10 million individuals annually. Beyond the initial acute phase, TBI often results in enduring neu...
Interference in laboratory assays is a concern since it can positively or negatively influence test results, which can affect patient care. Interferents could be endogenous or exogenous comp...
In the last 5 years, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved 4 anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CART19) products for relapsed/refractory B cell lymphomas and leukemia. Ho...
The proper preparation of heat sensitive samples is a critical aspect of laboratory work across various industries. Ensuring that samples maintain their integrity throughout the sample prepa...
With the fast progress and deeper understanding of CAR-T cell therapy, finding a better solution other than lentivirus transduction is more requested, to overcome the functional limitation o...
This talk will provide an overview of our work in the design of self-assembled, functionalised peptide and protein nanoparticles, hydrogels and bio-interfaces for applications in healthcare....
To bring your cutting-edge cell and gene therapies to the patients that need them as quickly as possible, you need access to the most knowledgeable scientists, innovative technologies, metho...
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has driven the use of nucleic acid testing technology in clinical testing. There is a growing need for point-of-care testing (POCT)......
Smartphone-based optical imaging and sensing devices are among the next-generation biosensors that have shown great potential to transform the field of point-of-care (POC) diagnostics....
In the past decade, gene editing has been increasingly emphasized as an essential tool for therapy development. This has led to significant scientific advances in understanding disease mecha...