ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. A-myo-trophic comes from the Greek language. "A" means no. "Myo" refers to muscle, and "Trophic" means nourishment - "No muscle nourishment."
Date: November 08, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 5:00pm (CEST) While flow cytometry shines by its flexibility, it requires a high level of expertise in antibody panel development,...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of most Americans. The consequences on the future health of the nation are unknown but likely profound. Well known is the condition known in the...
The host antiviral innate immune response protects the host against infection. Like with other viruses, the host recognizes SARS-CoV-2 infection and triggers a series of signaling cascades t...
At the end of 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), emerged in China. As of September 2022, SARS-CoV...
Date: September 29, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) Development and evolution are controlled, to a large degree, by regions of genomic DNA called enhancers that encode...
Date: August 18, 2022 Time: 3pm AEST | 1pm SGT | 2pm JP/KR Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homologue (KRAS) is the most frequently mutated oncogene, present in approximately 25% of tumors...
Date: July 28, 2022 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT) Hepatitis B and C continues to be a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, resulting in 1.1 million deaths and 3 million new in...
Date: March 09, 2021 Time: 08:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 5:00pm (CEST) Bioengineering technologies hold enormous potential to solve many of our world’s pressing problems. However, they...
Date: January 31, 2022 Time: 6:00am (PST), 9:00am (EST) The advent of massively parallel next‐generation DNA sequencing (NGS) technologies has provided opportunities to radically improve str...
Date: November 7, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Analysis of SARS-CoV-2–specific T cells is important to understand their role during acute disease and in long-term protection...
Date: December 2, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Effective immunotherapy of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is hampered by the lack of suitable tumor-specific antigens. To ad...
Date: November 15, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT) Targeted sequencing of respiratory viruses’ genomes is important to identify novel viral variants. Compared to amplicon sequenc...
Severe SARS-CoV-2 infection often leads to development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), with profound pulmonary patho-histological changes post-mortem. In this study, we utiliz...
Effective immunotherapy of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is hampered by the lack of suitable tumor-specific antigens. To address this challenge, we have combined high-throughput fl...
La infección por el virus del papiloma humano (VPH) es el causante principal de cáncer de cuello uterino. Los tipos 16 y 18 del VPH son responsables...
The misfolding of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) such as tau and α-synuclein (αSyn) has been associated with the on-set and progression of Alzheimer’s (AD) and Pa...
Over 40 tandem repeats undergo expansion events that lead to neurological disease. This number is likely an underestimate as many repeats are difficult to amplify using existing short read s...
Date: July 28, 2021 Time: 7:00am PDT Bacterial persistence is a potential cause of antibiotic therapy failure. Antibiotic-tolerant persisters originate from phenotypic differentiation within...
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease affecting approximately 1 in 50,000 people worldwide. About 10% of these cases are found to have a hereditary component, bu...
Pain management includes the choice of analgesia agents, their dose, administration method, duration and frequency of treatment, and a pain-monitoring scheme for each individual animal. Insu...
Learning Objectives: 1. Methods on how to aseptically use foil (Reynolds Wrap) in rodent surgery 2. Methods on how aseptically use cling film (Press N' Seal) in rodent surgery 3. Long-te...
There is growing concern about the reliability of biomedical research results. Poor experimental design, inappropriate analysis methods and incomplete reporting have all contributed to incon...
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in December 2019 and has spread globally, causing a pandemic of respiratory illness designated coronavirus disease 20...
Date: November 08, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 5:00pm (CEST) While flow cytometry shines by its flexibility, it requires a high level of expertise in antibody panel development,...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of most Americans. The consequences on the future health of the nation are unknown but likely profound. Well known is the condition known in the...
The host antiviral innate immune response protects the host against infection. Like with other viruses, the host recognizes SARS-CoV-2 infection and triggers a series of signaling cascades t...
At the end of 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), emerged in China. As of September 2022, SARS-CoV...
Date: September 29, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) Development and evolution are controlled, to a large degree, by regions of genomic DNA called enhancers that encode...
Date: August 18, 2022 Time: 3pm AEST | 1pm SGT | 2pm JP/KR Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homologue (KRAS) is the most frequently mutated oncogene, present in approximately 25% of tumors...
Date: July 28, 2022 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT) Hepatitis B and C continues to be a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, resulting in 1.1 million deaths and 3 million new in...
Date: March 09, 2021 Time: 08:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 5:00pm (CEST) Bioengineering technologies hold enormous potential to solve many of our world’s pressing problems. However, they...
Date: January 31, 2022 Time: 6:00am (PST), 9:00am (EST) The advent of massively parallel next‐generation DNA sequencing (NGS) technologies has provided opportunities to radically improve str...
Date: November 7, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Analysis of SARS-CoV-2–specific T cells is important to understand their role during acute disease and in long-term protection...
Date: December 2, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Effective immunotherapy of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is hampered by the lack of suitable tumor-specific antigens. To ad...
Date: November 15, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT) Targeted sequencing of respiratory viruses’ genomes is important to identify novel viral variants. Compared to amplicon sequenc...
Severe SARS-CoV-2 infection often leads to development of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), with profound pulmonary patho-histological changes post-mortem. In this study, we utiliz...
Effective immunotherapy of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is hampered by the lack of suitable tumor-specific antigens. To address this challenge, we have combined high-throughput fl...
La infección por el virus del papiloma humano (VPH) es el causante principal de cáncer de cuello uterino. Los tipos 16 y 18 del VPH son responsables...
The misfolding of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) such as tau and α-synuclein (αSyn) has been associated with the on-set and progression of Alzheimer’s (AD) and Pa...
Over 40 tandem repeats undergo expansion events that lead to neurological disease. This number is likely an underestimate as many repeats are difficult to amplify using existing short read s...
Date: July 28, 2021 Time: 7:00am PDT Bacterial persistence is a potential cause of antibiotic therapy failure. Antibiotic-tolerant persisters originate from phenotypic differentiation within...
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease affecting approximately 1 in 50,000 people worldwide. About 10% of these cases are found to have a hereditary component, bu...
Pain management includes the choice of analgesia agents, their dose, administration method, duration and frequency of treatment, and a pain-monitoring scheme for each individual animal. Insu...
Learning Objectives: 1. Methods on how to aseptically use foil (Reynolds Wrap) in rodent surgery 2. Methods on how aseptically use cling film (Press N' Seal) in rodent surgery 3. Long-te...
There is growing concern about the reliability of biomedical research results. Poor experimental design, inappropriate analysis methods and incomplete reporting have all contributed to incon...
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) emerged in December 2019 and has spread globally, causing a pandemic of respiratory illness designated coronavirus disease 20...