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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...
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...
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...
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...
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)......
Programmable genome integration of large, diverse DNA cargo without DNA repair of exposed DNA double-strand breaks remains an unsolved challenge in genome editing. We present programmable ad...
CRISPR-based diagnostics offer rapid and highly sensitive detection of disease biomarkers. Their ease of use and compatibility with lateral-flow readouts make them suitable for point-of-care...
Rare diseases pose unique challenges in the medical field, often affecting a small but vulnerable population with limited treatment options. The Rare Disease Challenge (RaDiChal) is a ground...
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...
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 this talk, I will introduce two new tools that we developed based on CRISPR-enabled gene regulation in bacteria, and one method based on P1 phagemid-enabled delivery of Cas9 nuclease. Fir...
Endonuclease Cas12a, as one key part of the CRISPR/Cas biotechnology, possessed a unique dual enzymatic function which has been widely used for various applications1. However, the limits tra...
Rather than being famous in gene editing field only, by revealing the collateral cleavage activity of Cas12a, Cas13a, Cas14 effectors, and more, Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindr...
Molecular diagnostics based on clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) enzyme systems have been the subject of intense research....
With the promise of targeted gene editing and CRISPR technologies comes increasing experimental complexity and design challenges. Success in gene editing experiments may depend on many varia...
Gynecologic cancers account for nearly 40% of all cancer incidence and >30% of all cancer mortality in women worldwide. In recent years, there have been significant advancements in the cl...
Gene therapy holds potential for treating neurological diseases by delivering genetic information into specific cell types. However, selective and efficient targeting of cell types remains c...
Neuroscience focuses on the study of the nervous system: a highly complex, dense, and organized network stretching across the whole body of most organisms. Due to this neuroscience can be a...
Description: Join this two-part webinar to learn how capillary electrophoresis (CE) complements sequencing technologies, such as next generation sequencing, that are being used by cancer res...