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.
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...
Date: April 26, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CET) Cell competition is a mechanism of interaction that dictates cell selection based on differences in cellular fitness. We...
The Patient is Bleeding: Balancing Clinical and Laboratory Needs Coagulopathy in the bleeding surgical patient can get worse by the second! One of the real-world operational challenges......
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...
Accurate classification of genetic alterations is important to ensure the provision of high-quality clinical data. For interpretation of germline alterations, there are standardized guidelin...
In 2013, a separate diagnosis of PTSD was introduced into the DSM-V to mitigate the well-known issue of accurately differentiating between PSTD and other psychiatric disorders. In addition t...
A hypoxic tumour microenvironment is a feature of solid tumours. Many tumour types contain high fractions of hypoxic tissue. The relationship between high levels of tumour hypoxia and a poor...
Up until now, Big Data in healthcare has failed to drive any real progress in curing disease. However, we have just now reached a cost and throughput threshold in sequencing and bioinformati...
The speakers will discuss how to surmount obstacles related to translating sequencing data into actionable results, and propose curated variant content shared with the clinical community as...
Genomics has had rapid implementation over the past decade, with recent growth in application in oncology, mental health, maternal fetal medicine, solid organ transplantation, and more. Much...
The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a dramatic toll worldwide. Its impact possibly has been the most palpable amongst uniquely vulnerable groups of patients, such as patients with a cancer diagn...
Objective : Evaluation of EDTA-gel blood collection tubes from remote locations for NIPS (Non-invasive prenatal testing). Design: Paired comparisons Population: 61 pregnant women from Britis...
Esophageal adenocarcinoma [EAC] is the fastest growing in incidence cancer in the US over the last 25 years, while also having a 5 year survival of less than 20%. Barrett’s Esophagus [...
Follow us on a journey of single cell data exploration. See how you can Process, Analyze, Compare, and Contextualize, your results to identify novel biological relationships and drive new hy...
Regardless of method, single cell RNA-seq only captures a small fraction of the transcriptome of each cell. Often, this is due to inherent limitations of the methodology as reads ‘drop...
Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) uses a stand-displacing DNA polymerase and four to six primers to rapidly amplify DNA at a single temperature. By eliminating temperature cyclin...