Cardinal Health™ labXchange: A breakthrough idea for a non-traditional tradeshowCardinal Health™ labXchange is a no-cost online destination where lab professionals h...
An emerging infectious disease or re-emerging infectious disease is defined by WHO as “one that has appeared in a population for the first time, or that may have existed previously but...
This presentation covers the "Individualized Quality Control Plan” (IQCP) implemented by The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on January 1, 2016. The guidance and...
Medical providers now have a number of new technologies available for the rapid diagnosis of strep pharyngitis. Dr. Schuman will present an overview of strep pharyngitis, signs and symptoms a...
Patient Blood Management (PBM) is an emerging clinical concept designed to reduce unnecessary, excessive and avoidable blood transfusions. Interest in PBM has grown rapidly throughout t...
This presentation will outline activities from pre-inspection through the post inspection process as it relates to QC throughout your laboratory. You will be provided you a strategy on what i...
I will be discussing the following subjects in my presentation: Update from 2015 PAMA Proposed (or Final Rule) FDA Regulation of LDTs Change to Physician Payment and impact on diagn...
Big data has been with us for a long time, and tools to explore it continue to improve. Where are these data resources, how are we using them, and what are we finding as we explore them...
SELEX is a process that selects DNA or RNA from a random library of sequences based on their affinity for a target molecule. These high affinity ligands, called apta...
DATE: June 1, 2016
TIME: 10am Pacific time, 1pm Eastern time
On June 1st, join us for a webinar that’s designed to help you navigate your career in the right direction. We&rsq...
DATE: May 31, 2016
TIME: 7am Pacific time, 10am Easter time, 4pm Central European Summer time
Pipetting is an every-day task in a cell culture lab. We pipette so often that we...
A quick look at the most recent new drug filings reveals how much interest there is in biologically derived molecules as therapeutic agents. The majority of the filings are for New Biological...
An industry leader in delivering instrument systems, reagents, and services to life science researchers,Beckman Coulter Life Sciences helps enable new discoveries in biology-based research...
Generating NGS data you can trust is highly reliant on the quality of the library sample that’s sequenced. NGS sample prep has become more streamlined, but it’s still a labo...
DATE: May 17, 2016
TIME: 7am Pacific time, 10am Eastern time, 4pm Swedish time
Data generation is becoming easier and easier and many organizations have matured in their data storage and ...
This event is now apart of the Genetics Week Virtual Event Series. The LabRoots 4 th Annual Event in the Genetics and Genomics Virtual Event Series was a wonderful event for research scienti...
Millions of individuals have been sequenced or genotyped and linked with medical records, providing an exciting opportunity for therapeutic target discovery. My lab has been using a resilienc...
In order to realize the benefits of personalized cancer therapy, increasing demands are placed upon clinical laboratories to provide timely, comprehensive, clinically actionable, and analytic...
Network models are an invaluable tool for integrating multiple data types and for modeling interactions between biological elements. One common question that arises, however, is what to do wi...
The biological state of the cell is characterized by a complex network of interacting genes, gene products, proteins, microRNAs, as well as other molecules. Microarrays and next generation se...
DNA methylation is an essential mechanism of epigenetic gene regulation with broad relevance in development and disease. Its localization on genomic DNA and general stability make this epigen...
As millions of people all over the world get their genome sequenced, physicians and researchers as well as the individuals themselves will want to ask questions of these data. To ask question...
Wolframin is a major protein of the endoplasmic reticulum, it is expressed in most tissues and clinical data demonstrate its significant connection to diabetes mellitus. L...
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) is an emerging source used molecular cancer diagnostics. Through expression profiling of CTCs, it allows a deeper understanding about which metabolic pathways e...
Technological advances allow for the large scale sequencing of the whole human genome. Most studies have generated population-based information on human diversity using low to intermediate co...
It is estimated that by the end of this year more than 1 million people worldwide will have had their genome sequenced. Genomic sequencing is increasingly being integrated into clinical care,...
Human breast tumors have been shown to exhibit extensive inter- and intra-tumor heterogeneity. While recent advances in genomic technologies have allowed us to deconvolute this heterogeneity,...
The rapid implementation of next generation sequencing is changing how genetics and genomics are applied in a clinical setting. However, the quickly evolving technology can be challenging to...
The clinical utility of high-dimensional molecular profiling has been provisionally established in several domains of medicine. Today, interrogation of scores of genes and even whole ex...
Emerging technologies facilitate basic science research, but their value in regulatory applications requires rigorous assessment and consensus within the research community. Next-generation s...
Technological advances have made genomic sequencing more affordable, efficient, and available. Questions related to the implementation and effects of large-scale sequencing in healthcare have...