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Complex Disease
Caused by genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors, complex diseases such as asthma, diabetes, epilepsy, hypertension, manic depression, schizophrenia, and others, are often difficult to treat. Disorders that are commonly referenced as "running in the family" can be classified as complex diseases.
SEP 11, 2019 | 10:30 AM
Canine parvovirus (CPV) is an important pathogen causing severe diseases in dogs, including acute hemorrhagic enteritis, myocarditis and cerebellar disease. Cross-species transmission of CPV...
SEP 11, 2019 | 9:00 AM
Traditional pathogen detection methods rely on the identification of pathogens known to be associated with a particular syndrome. In many cases, it involves complex methodology, lengthy proce...
SEP 11, 2019 | 7:30 AM
Jonathan is a co-founder and the CEO of FitBiomics, a biotechnology startup that is sequencing the microbiome of elite athletes to identify and isolate next-generation probiotics for applicat...
SEP 11, 2019 | 6:00 AM
MVRSION is a bench and informatic system which employs simultaneous weighted analysis eight of nine 16S hyper variable regions. We use Fluidigm Juno to amplify and index the these regions in...
SEP 05, 2019 | 7:00 AM
DATE: September 5, 2019TIME: 7:00am PT, 10:00am ET, 4:00pm CEST PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) has gone through a massive evolution since its development in 1983. Besides it...
AUG 15, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: August 15, 2019TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Radiation therapy is a critical tool for the treatment of brain tumors, however, exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation...
JUL 31, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: July 31, 2019TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET The choroid plexus, which makes up the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier in the central nervous system (CNS), lines the ventricle...
JUL 25, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: July 25, 2019TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET Vaginitis / vaginosis (V/V) is defined as a spectrum of conditions that cause vaginal and sometimes vulvar symptoms, such as itch...
JUL 24, 2019 | 8:00 AM
DATE: July 24, 2019TIMEL 8:00am PT Mass cytometry (CyTOF®) is a powerful approach to characterize the immune composition of complex biological specimens and gain insights in...
JUN 27, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: June 27, 2019TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT At present cancer research focuses on three major areas viz. cancer diagnostics, drugs development, and next-generation therapi...
JUN 20, 2019 | 6:00 AM
Virtually all tumors are genetically heterogeneous, containing subclonal populations of cells that are defined by distinct mutations. Subclones can have unique phenotypes that influence disea...
JUN 12, 2019 | 10:00 AM
DATE: June 12, 2019TIME: 10:00am PT/1:00pm ET With the ever-changing healthcare ecosystem, you are being asked to continually perform better than ever before. Your patients con...
MAY 30, 2019 | 1:30 PM
Tissues in the body are wonderfully organized, with specific arrangements of cells, extracellular matrix, secreted molecules, and fluid flow that synergize that create emergent functions. How...
MAY 22, 2019 | 8:00 AM
DATE: May 22, 2019TIME: 08:00am PDTOmics analysis offers the potential to obtain deep insight into biological processes as well as a rich source of potential biomarkers. While the consu...
MAY 09, 2019 | 10:30 AM
Speculations that some form DNA alteration might be utilized by the brain date to the 1960s [1] wherein hypotheses for genomic alterations of germline DNA were proposed for immunoglobulins an...
