Cell encapsulation within semi-permeable devices represents a local immunoisolation strategy for cell-based therapies without the need for systemic immunosuppression. The encapsulation syste...
Demand for high-value biologics, a rapidly growing pipeline, and pressure from competition, time-to-market and regulators, necessitate novel biomanufacturing approaches, including Quality by...
Potency is a critical quality attribute of biological products, defined by the US FDA as the specific ability of the product to cause the required therapeutically clinical benefit. Potency a...
The past few decades have seen a substantial increase in the research based on nanocarrier based combinative drug therapies in various diseases such as cancer, tuberculosis, Alzheimer’...
The scale-up and characterization of industrial bioprocesses is to a large extent still based on empirical knowledge. With advanced algorithms and graphic processing units in the computation...
Biologics derived from mammalian sources are expected to undergo two orthogonal virus removal processes. One common processing step is a batch low-pH hold to inactivate enveloped viruses. At...
Within the last decade, bioprocess modeling received increased attention. But what are actually the crucial things to consider to create value through process modeling? During this talk, the...
Date: April 06, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) The discovery of the reproducibility crisis has called into question a worrying number of scientific results over the last few years. In...
DATE: April 2, 2021 TIME: 09:00am PDT There has been a major development in the serologic diagnosis of Lyme disease. All parties agree (as before) on the paradigm of “Two Tier Testing&...
Date: April 01, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) Generating therapeutic antibodies is far more challenging than obtaining antibodies that merely recognize their targets. Engineering po...
Date: March 30, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) n this talk today we will discuss how to improve the resolution of your current CE-SDS methods. We will cover how CE-SDS works and what...
Learning Objectives: Discuss Respiratory Disease State and Current Trends Overview Discuss the Alinity m Resp-4-Plex Assay Design Discuss Alinity m Resp-4-Plex Assay Clinical Performance...
Date: March 25, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT) This is the second World TB Day and the end of the first full year since the world encountered COVID-19. We have all worked feverishly to manage this...
Date: March 25, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) Flow cytometry has expanded to have more users, more data, and multiple instrument types. While this has lead to more quantitative data...
Date: March 25, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Visikol is a biotechnology company focused on advanced imaging, digital pathology and 3D cell culture assays that has developed a un...
Learning Objectives: 1. Participants will understand how cannabis works with the Endocannabinoid system and what is the Endocannabinoid system 2. Participants will understand how cannabis is...
An essential tool in the modern laboratory, the Laboratory Information Management System is embraced for its utility to acquire and mine simple to complex data. The cannabis laboratories hav...
Date: March 24, 2021 Time: 08:00am PDT The liver is responsible for many metabolic, endocrine and exocrine functions. Approximately 2 million deaths per year are associated with liver failur...
Approximately 1 out of every 3 children with epilepsy do not respond to conventional medications, resulting in significant disruption in quality of life. The CDC states that one in 54 childr...
Over the past few years there has been an increased interest in the role of cannabis for treating medical conditions. Attitude towards cannabis has evolved rapidly with the expanding legaliz...
The utilization of high fidelity long read sequencing is critical for the resolution of repetitive genomes. Cannabis sativa is known to be diploid (2n=20), 70% repetitive, 64% AT rich and 1%...
The strong growth in cannabis has led to scaled challenges. As industry has experimented and grown, producers of cannabis oil, both CBD and THC, have started to regularly implement adsorptio...
Terpenes are a broad class of chemicals that are found throughout the Cannabis plant that produce the unique aroma and taste of your favorite variety. Cannabis breeders have been selecting f...
The purpose of the project was to provide a straightforward way to develop analytical methods for terpene analysis. Terpene analysis can be a difficult proposition and having a basic underst...
Too often, cannabis labs are trying to open for business without the solid foundation of an ISO management system. This afterthought is detrimental to labs’ short and long term success...
The use of medically unsupervised cannabis use is exponentially growing in the USA. Healthcare providers need to not only recognize this fact but embrace it with the goal of avoiding drug-dr...
As the cannabis analytical market matures so do the requirements for quality assurance testing. This presentation will include an introduction to proficiency testing and how it applies to th...