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Biotechnology: is the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make products, or "any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms, or derivatives thereof, to make or modify products or processes for specific use" (UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Art. 2). Depending on the tools and applications, it often overlaps with the (related) fields of bioengineering, biomedical engineering, biomanufacturing, molecular engineering, etc.
MAY 17, 2022 | 7:00 AM
Date: May 17, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) Monoclonal antibody (mAb) is generated from a single clone of an antibody-producing cell and recognizes one specific epitop...
MAY 04, 2022 | 1:30 PM
Wastewater samples are challenging substrates for nucleic acid extraction, and choice of extraction method will determine the success of downstream analysis. Extraction methods must be able...
MAY 04, 2022 | 5:30 AM
Diagnostics have never been more important or visible on the world stage as they are today in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Mara will speak about how COVID diagnostics have been...
MAY 04, 2022 | 5:30 AM
During the first year of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, international monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 genomic RNA revealed that the virus accumulated roughly 2 mutations per month. Nonetheless, one nonsy...
APR 21, 2022 | 8:00 AM
Date: April 21, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Due to the low frequency of B cells in human peripheral blood, it can be difficult to obtain sufficient numbers of B cel...
APR 20, 2022 | 12:00 PM
Rapid screening and speed of scale-up in protein therapeutics are critical factors in today’s biotech and pharma workflows. The ability to swiftly develop novel therapies often depends...
APR 19, 2022 | 12:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) uses a stand-displacing DNA polymerase and four to six primers to rapidly amplify DNA at a single temperature. By eliminating temperature cyclin...
APR 19, 2022 | 7:30 AM
C.E. CREDITS
While early genetic diagnosis can guide critical care management, the turnaround time for whole genome based diagnostic testing is months. Recent programs in neonatal populations have reduce...
APR 19, 2022 | 6:00 AM
Pathogen detection and surveillance have become a high priority in both healthcare and environmental settings for the safety of patients and the general public. The COVID-19 pandemic highlig...
