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Diagnostic Assays
Diagnostic assays are medical tests performed to diagnose a disease or illness or detect risk factors that would predispose an individual to a disease. More recently with the advances in personalized medicine, diagnostic assays have been used to determine the best course of treatment for an individual based on specific markers and characteristics.
JUL 02, 2020 | 12:15 PM
Microsatellite instability (MSI) is a hypermutation phenotype that results from impaired DNA mismatch repair (MMR). The presence of high levels of MSI (MSI-H) is potentially predictive of Ly...
JUL 01, 2020 | 8:00 AM
DATE: July 1, 2020 TIME: 8:00 am PDT, 11:00 am EDT In late 2019, researchers identified the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen as the virus responsible for COVID-19. The virus spread rapidly throughout the...
JUL 01, 2020 | 2:00 PM
Lung cancer management has changed over the last few years with several actionable targets being recognised and mandated in the optimal management of these patients. The biomarker ordering p...
JUL 01, 2020 | 1:30 PM
Genetic carrier screening is a method to help couples discover whether they are at risk of passing on serious genetic disorders to their children. When carried out before conception or early...
JUL 01, 2020 | 12:45 PM
NGS is still perceived as a complex, hard to implement and validate method that requires highly experienced people. Outsourcing next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing could be an option to...
JUL 01, 2020 | 12:15 PM
Learn about how the new Ion Torrent Genexus System is addressing key challenges to next-generation sequencing (NGS) implementation, like hands-on time, time-to-result, user expertise, and af...
JUN 30, 2020 | 8:00 AM
DATE: June 30, 2020 TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am Understanding the tumor microenvironment (TME) is essential for the development of effective treatments for cancer patients. Traditional multi...
JUN 26, 2020 | 8:00 AM
DATE: June 26, 2020 TIME: 8:00am PT Structural variants (SVs) are an important source of genetic variation in the human genome and they are involved in a multitude of human diseases as well...
JUN 25, 2020 | 8:00 AM
DATE: June 25, 2020 TIME: 8:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT, 4:00pm BST, 5:00pm CEST Mass Spectrometry (MS) has been an invaluable tool for physicists and basic chemists for over 100 years. It was not...
JUN 23, 2020 | 9:00 AM
DATE: June 23, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PDT I n the last eight years the field of Synthetic Biology has erupted into a massive industry driving innovation in multiple disciplines, from sustainable...
JUN 18, 2020 | 9:00 AM
DATE: June 18, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Despite the success of immunotherapy against several malignancies including melanoma and lung adenocarcinoma, glioblastoma remains the excep...
JUN 17, 2020 | 1:30 PM
Understanding the complex interplay between a pathogen and the host response is important to developing effective vaccines and therapeutics. The nCounter® Analysis System and GeoMx®...
JUN 17, 2020 | 12:00 PM
Join us and hear from two Luminex® experts on our flexible solutions for molecular diagnostics. Dr. Sherry Dunbar and Dr. Aaron Benfield will describe our NxTAG® bead-based nucleic a...
