Biomarkers are molecules found in blood, body fluid, or tissue that denote a process or condition. Biomarkers are evaluated to see how the body is responding to a treatment or to access which treatment would be most optimal for a specific patient. Biomarker discovery describes the process of identifying new biomarkers to help promote health and well-being.
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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...
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...
Integrating external and internal ‘omics data is a key element of hypothesis generation, target identification, and biomarker prioritization when it comes to drug discovery. It is neve...
The prevalence of NASH in global populations continues to expand in conjunction with the ongoing obesity and diabetes epidemic. Over the next decade, the disease is projected to become the l...
Date: November 17, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) From waste disposal to promising biomarkers and therapeutic agents, exosomes and other extracellular vesicles are valuable in resear...
Date: November 16, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) The unique suppressive function of regulatory T cells (Treg cells) makes them an interesting target cell population to study. In rec...
Solid phase microextraction (SPME) is a versatile, non-exhaustive sample preparation tool that has been demonstrated to be well-suited for facile and effective analysis of a broad range of c...