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We are in critical need of targeted and individualized treatments for mental health disorders, which affect nearly 50% of Americans during our lifetimes. Brain stimulation treatments, includ...
Several age-related neurodegenerative disorders are characterized by the deposition of aberrantly folded proteins. The histopathological hallmark of synucleinopathies is the deposition of ɑ-...
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases (AD, PD) are the two most common neurodegenerative disorders. Despite their debilitating effects and increasing prevalence in our society, no...
Neuropore Therapies is discovering and developing novel small molecule disease-modifying therapeutics to treat patients with neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s disease a...
Patients with implanted neural devices offer researchers unique opportunities to study the basic workings of the human brain. This is made possible by patients undergoing epilepsy monitoring...
The ability of light sheet microscopy to interrogate organoids, whole brain, and systems in 3D enables the study of complex neurological pathways, vasculature and disease models in unique wa...
There are currently no approved therapeutics to promote neural repair following central nervous system (CNS) damage. Groundbreaking studies in neurotrauma and disease found that a family of...
NanoString has started an ambitious project called the "Spatial Organ Atlas." The goal of this initiative is to map the architecture of tissues with spatially resolved whole transc...
Date: March 09, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PST), 1:00pm (EST), 7:00pm (CEST) Transmission electron microscopy reveals the architecture of cells at nanometer resolution, but chemical fixation severe...
Date: March 08, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST), 6:00pm (CEST) SARS-CoV-2 causes COVID-19, a potentially lethal viral infection that can cause sever...
Date: March 1, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) Dr. David F Keren currently serves as a Professor of Pathology at the University of Michigan (Michigan Medicine). Dr. Keren received his...
Date: March 01, 2022 Time: 08:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) Histology laboratorians in the research world move fast, but those who perform cryosectioning know that these particular tissues requi...
Perhaps more than any other area of clinical medicine, anticoagulation management laboratory data are evaluated hourly by healthcare systems in the inpatient setting and daily in the outpatie...
Date: February 24, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PST), 1:00pm (EST) One of the largest global public health crises is the rise of antimicrobial-resistant infections. Globally, over 700,000 people die...
Date: February 24, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) Cytokine profiling is a valuable tool used in preclinical research for monitoring an immune response and cell signaling pathways dur...
Date: February 24, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PST), 10:00am (EST) In oral cancer surgery, the ultimate goal is to obtain tumor-negative resection margins. Yet, tumor-positive resection margins (i.e....
The explosion of biomedical data such as in genomics, structure biology and pharmacology can provide new opportunities to improve our understanding of human physiology and disease. Understan...
Adhesion G protein-coupled receptors (aGPCRs) are an ancient class of receptors that represent some of the largest transmembrane-integrated proteins in humans. Besides classic features of GP...
Cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developed countries including the United States. Early detection of various cancers, before they spread and become incurable, has been...
The continued evolution of precision medicine from the early successes seen in Oncology to other areas of medicine, in particular, Chronic Disease Management, is dependent on the efficient t...
The quest for alternatives to animal safety testing has fueled the development, characterization, and validation of many new technologies. There have been advances in cell and tissue models...
Princess Margaret Living Biobank (PMLB) is a repository for patient-derived organoid models. PMLB has generated over200 organoid models from lung, pancreas, colon, ovary, esophageal and brea...
Over the last few years, the space of advanced in vitro models has grown dramatically as researchers look to better mimic the in vivo environment within inexpensive and high throughput in vi...
Current drug discovery workflows are inefficient. 90% of therapeutic agents reaching clinical trials fail, predominantly because traditional laboratory experiments fail to adequately predict...
Genetically engineered cellular models are an integral part of the drug discovery process from early discovery through clinical biomanufacturing. The various applications of these cellular m...
High-throughput sequencing technology such as RNASeq and whole genome sequencing has enabled deep characterization of health and disease states. Biomarker discovery by these means has only h...
We are in critical need of targeted and individualized treatments for mental health disorders, which affect nearly 50% of Americans during our lifetimes. Brain stimulation treatments, includ...
