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.
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The proportion of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) derived from tumor cells in the plasma of patients with cancer is typically less than 2%. To overcome this limitation, methods have been developed to...
This workshop will focus on the emerging variants and the diagnostic and surveillance strategies (genotyping assays complementing sequencing) for this, as well as the impending COVID-Flu int...
Date: November 10, 2021 Time: 12:00pm PDT, 3:00pm EDT The physics of liquid aspiration and dispensing make viscous liquid handling tricky. Some liquids (like glycerol) are impossible to pipe...
Last year, while experts were concerned about the “twindemic”, the flu season was virtually non-existent due to COVID-19 public health countermeasures. With COVID-19 vaccination...
The Moonshot program was established in the UK by The Department of Health and Social Care to explore novel technologies for the detection of SARS-COV-2. Mass spectrometry was identified as...
Date: November 10, 2021 Time: 10:00am PST Conjugated antibodies and proteins are some of the most powerful and commonly used probes currently used in life sciences research. Understanding th...
Date: November 10, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT) Clinical chemistry is a key discipline in laboratory medicine and comprises the majority of the workload in the core lab. In this pr...
Solid phase microextraction (SPME) is a versatile, non-exhaustive sample preparation tool that has been demonstrated to be well-suited for facile and effective analysis of a broad range of c...