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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.
APR 27, 2022 | 9:00 AM
Date: April 27, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Abnormal accumulation of misfolded tau protein in filaments characterizes more than 20 neurodegenerative diseases—c...
APR 26, 2022 | 7:00 AM
Date: April 19, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) High-content (HC) phenotypic profiling approaches are a powerful tool to study the effect of biological, genetic, and ch...
APR 19, 2022 | 5:30 AM
The human genome encodes 25,000 genes. But the biological complexity inherent in polygenic traits is a clear sign that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Genes, gene products, a...
APR 06, 2022 | 5:30 AM
Biopharmaceuticals produced with mammalian cells are the key drivers for the medication of former untreatable diseases. The development of their production processes is still challenging bec...
APR 05, 2022 | 9:00 AM
Date: April 5, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Enteroviruses are non-enveloped positive-sense RNA viruses that cause diverse diseases...
MAR 10, 2022 | 11:55 PM
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases (AD, PD) are the two most common neurodegenerative disorders. Despite their debilitating effects and increasing prevalence in our society, no...
MAR 10, 2022 | 10:30 AM
The ability of light sheet microscopy to interrogate organoids, whole brain, and systems in 3D enables the study of complex neurological pathways, vasculature and disease models in unique wa...
FEB 24, 2022 | 9:00 AM
Date: February 24, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) Cytokine profiling is a valuable tool used in preclinical research for monitoring an immune response and cell signaling pathways dur...
FEB 23, 2022 | 11:55 PM
The quest for alternatives to animal safety testing has fueled the development, characterization, and validation of many new technologies. There have been advances in cell and tissue models...
FEB 23, 2022 | 12:00 PM
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...
JAN 20, 2022 | 11:00 AM
Date: January 20, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CEST) The Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD) is a one-of-a-kind resource containing data for hundreds of thousands of varia...
DEC 10, 2021 | 8:00 AM
Date: December 10, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) In the past decade, the development of liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) technology has transformed the paradigm of me...
DEC 09, 2021 | 11:00 AM
Date: December 09, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT) The burden of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been acknowledged worldwide by leading health institutes. Besides the need for new...
DEC 07, 2021 | 10:00 PM
Date: December 7, 2021 Time: 11:30am (IST), 2:00pm (SGT), 3:00pm (KST), 4:00pm (AEST)...
DEC 07, 2021 | 10:00 AM
Date: December 07, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PST) The RNAscope™ technology allows high sensitivity and spatial resolution providing pivotal single-cell information to gain better insights in...
NOV 18, 2021 | 11:00 AM
Date: November 18, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT) An important lesson learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is how critical the microbiology laboratory is to ensuring hospitals have sur...
NOV 02, 2021 | 7:00 AM
Date: November 2, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) Tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacteria are an alarming and ongoing global issue which requires fast and innovative diagn...
OCT 26, 2021 | 9:00 AM
Date: October 26, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Capillary Electrophoresis plays an important role in the diagnosis of hemoglobinopathy carriers and patients. The general flow is the...
OCT 20, 2021 | 9:00 AM
Date: October 20, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Protein therapeutics is one of the major drug modalities in biopharma industry. With more and more elucidation of disease pathology,...
SEP 29, 2021 | 11:59 PM
Cas9 based therapeutics have the potential to revolutionize the treatment of genetic diseases. However, safe and effective methods for delivering Cas9 protein, gRNA and donor DNA need to be...