Clinical biomarker are specific characteristics that can be measured in a clinical setting to indicate normal or abnormal functions. Analysis of clinical biomarkers can be used to diagnose a disease, assess the efficacy of an intervention, or plan an appropriate course of treatment.
Challenges in achieving comparability, reproducibility and accuracy in biological assays has driven a demand for improved confidence in measurements that support development of regenerative m...
Identification of the many complex genetic aberrations associated with cancers, and deciphering their role in disease progression and response to treatment is one of the major challenges face...
Much has been made in the popular press about importance of our "genes" in everything from our weight, intelligence, and our risk of disease. While there is a scientific basis...
Gastrointestinal (GI) disorders are now widely recognized as a clinical symptom of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and research into the microbiome-gut-brain axis is beginning to reveal the i...
Launched in early 2015, the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) takes advantage of the progress made in genomic testing – progress largely driven by rapid advances in DNA sequencing tec...
The starting point for an interaction between a patient and a clinician is almost always a set of clinical facts (aka a phenotype). Phenotype-first medicine is the standard way in which the p...
Recent advances in DNA sequencing have now made it possible to characterize genomes, transcriptomes and even methylomes which is transforming both basic research and clinical practice. Whole...
DATE: January 27, 2017TIME: 4:00am PT, 7:00am ET, 1:00pm CETThe study of the tumor ecosystem and its cell-to-cell communications is essential to enable an understanding of tumor biology...
DATE: December 9, 2016
TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET
Un-analyzed data isn't useful. Poorly analyzed data is useless. And that means no funding! But how to overcom...
DATE: November 4, 2016
TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET
How do you develop clinically relevant biomarkers?
Systematic tumor profiling with multi-omics tools and rapid analytical...
Breast cancer is a complex heterogeneous disease, with each subtype characterized by distinct clinical features and molecular alterations. The heterogeneity of breast cancer has presented mas...
Laboratory tests come into existence through a variety of processes but regardless of the genesis all share a certain set of requirements. These include discovery, development, validation, re...
Sanger sequencing and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods have been the standard molecular methods in clinical diagnostics for decades. Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology r...
Core or central laboratory are facing several challenges. First, the management and operations of a successful modern laboratory is a real complex exercise, with multiple pre- and post-analyt...
With increasing emphasis on effective pain management in clinical care, there has been a significant increase in the number of opioid prescriptions in the past decade. While these drugs...
Vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency are prevalent worldwide, and pregnant women and infants are at highest risk for having deficiency and related consequences. Epidemiologic studies have s...
Most of the tests performed for patient care use automated colorimetric and immunoassay methods in the clinical laboratories. Clinical labs are regulated by CLIA and are routinely inspected b...
Whole genome and exome sequencing is being widely used to identify disease-causing variants in patients with hereditary and rare diseases. Discovering the true disease-causing variants often...
New generations of treatments successfully target cancer cell signaling and modulate anti-cancer immunity to improve outcomes for advanced-stage malignancies. Such clinical responses are gove...
FTIR spectroscopic imaging is an emerging tool for label-free, non-destructive characterization of tissues. The pathological annotation of tissue can be performed in an automated and objectiv...
DATE: October 5, 2016
TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET
Sepsis, a host-mediated response to a systemic infection, is a leading cause of mortality worldwide (1). Early recognit...
The Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) routinely receives autopsy and biopsy tissues for diagnostic evaluation. These tissues are typ...
Mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) therapy is a promising option to support endogenous regeneration and immunomodulation. However, the clinical results are contradictory. We think that the recent...
DATE: July 20thTIME: 8AM PT, 11AM ET, 5PM CESTTherapies like ipilimumab and nivolumab have shown the potential for approaches that direct the patient’s own immune system aga...
Challenges in achieving comparability, reproducibility and accuracy in biological assays has driven a demand for improved confidence in measurements that support development of regenerative m...
Identification of the many complex genetic aberrations associated with cancers, and deciphering their role in disease progression and response to treatment is one of the major challenges face...
Much has been made in the popular press about importance of our "genes" in everything from our weight, intelligence, and our risk of disease. While there is a scientific basis...
Gastrointestinal (GI) disorders are now widely recognized as a clinical symptom of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and research into the microbiome-gut-brain axis is beginning to reveal the i...
Launched in early 2015, the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) takes advantage of the progress made in genomic testing – progress largely driven by rapid advances in DNA sequencing tec...
The starting point for an interaction between a patient and a clinician is almost always a set of clinical facts (aka a phenotype). Phenotype-first medicine is the standard way in which the p...
Recent advances in DNA sequencing have now made it possible to characterize genomes, transcriptomes and even methylomes which is transforming both basic research and clinical practice. Whole...
DATE: January 27, 2017TIME: 4:00am PT, 7:00am ET, 1:00pm CETThe study of the tumor ecosystem and its cell-to-cell communications is essential to enable an understanding of tumor biology...
DATE: December 9, 2016
TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET
Un-analyzed data isn't useful. Poorly analyzed data is useless. And that means no funding! But how to overcom...
DATE: November 4, 2016
TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET
How do you develop clinically relevant biomarkers?
Systematic tumor profiling with multi-omics tools and rapid analytical...
Breast cancer is a complex heterogeneous disease, with each subtype characterized by distinct clinical features and molecular alterations. The heterogeneity of breast cancer has presented mas...
Laboratory tests come into existence through a variety of processes but regardless of the genesis all share a certain set of requirements. These include discovery, development, validation, re...
Sanger sequencing and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods have been the standard molecular methods in clinical diagnostics for decades. Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology r...
Core or central laboratory are facing several challenges. First, the management and operations of a successful modern laboratory is a real complex exercise, with multiple pre- and post-analyt...
With increasing emphasis on effective pain management in clinical care, there has been a significant increase in the number of opioid prescriptions in the past decade. While these drugs...
Vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency are prevalent worldwide, and pregnant women and infants are at highest risk for having deficiency and related consequences. Epidemiologic studies have s...
Most of the tests performed for patient care use automated colorimetric and immunoassay methods in the clinical laboratories. Clinical labs are regulated by CLIA and are routinely inspected b...
Whole genome and exome sequencing is being widely used to identify disease-causing variants in patients with hereditary and rare diseases. Discovering the true disease-causing variants often...
New generations of treatments successfully target cancer cell signaling and modulate anti-cancer immunity to improve outcomes for advanced-stage malignancies. Such clinical responses are gove...
FTIR spectroscopic imaging is an emerging tool for label-free, non-destructive characterization of tissues. The pathological annotation of tissue can be performed in an automated and objectiv...
DATE: October 5, 2016
TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET
Sepsis, a host-mediated response to a systemic infection, is a leading cause of mortality worldwide (1). Early recognit...
The Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) routinely receives autopsy and biopsy tissues for diagnostic evaluation. These tissues are typ...
Mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC) therapy is a promising option to support endogenous regeneration and immunomodulation. However, the clinical results are contradictory. We think that the recent...
DATE: July 20thTIME: 8AM PT, 11AM ET, 5PM CESTTherapies like ipilimumab and nivolumab have shown the potential for approaches that direct the patient’s own immune system aga...
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