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Experiment: is a procedure carried out to support, refute, or validate a hypothesis. Experiments vary greatly in goal and scale, but always rely on repeatable procedure and logical analysis of the results. There also exists natural experimental studies.
FEB 05, 2014 | 9:00 AM
The primary goal of all gnotobiotic facilities is to maintain a germ-free colony until such time as protocols require associations with other organisms. As such, a well-trained and knowledgea...
FEB 05, 2014 | 9:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Public concerns over animal experimentation are becoming felt on both sides of the Atlantic, and a dangerous chasm is appearing between those who conduct such experiments and those who are o...
FEB 05, 2014 | 8:00 AM
The 8th Edition of the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (Guide NRC, 2011) has been in use since 2011. What changes has it brought? What are the impacts of those changes? The g...
FEB 05, 2014 | 7:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Simplifying Rodent Surgery... Tips for improving technique without incurring unreasonable costs Good science is greatly dependent on minimization of study variables. Surgery has the potential...
NOV 20, 2013 | 10:00 AM
2013 has proven to be a year of paradigmatic shifts in molecular diagnostics reimbursement policy. In this session, we will review and analyze these key policy and payment developments and di...
OCT 17, 2013 | 12:00 PM
The discovery of proteinaceous disease biomarkers and their clinical validation is critically important for the enablement of molecular diagnostics and ultimately, precision medicine. In spit...
OCT 17, 2013 | 9:00 AM
DNASTAR offers an integrated suite of software for assembling and analyzing data from all major next-generation sequencing platforms. The software supports a variety of reference guided and d...
OCT 16, 2013 | 2:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
Non Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is one of the most significant causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide. In about 6-7% of NSCLC, rearrangements involving the Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase...
AUG 22, 2013 | 2:00 PM
The role of the human genome in normal and patho-biology is crucial. Applied in cancer care and in a variety of unknown disorder settings, it can provide key insights and crucial diagnostic/p...
AUG 22, 2013 | 1:00 PM
MicroRNAs are short non-coding cellular regulators of gene expression. Each microRNA controls the expression of a large set of genes, and microRNAs collectively, may regulate more than half o...
AUG 22, 2013 | 12:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
It is widely accepted that approximately 85% of known disease-causing DNA variants affect the exons and splice junctions, which is about 1% of the whole genome. As a result, Clinical Exome Se...
AUG 22, 2013 | 11:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
I will describe recent advances in computational protein design which allow the generation of new protein structures and functions. I will describe the use of these methods to design ultra-st...
AUG 22, 2013 | 10:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
In this presentation, exome data from individuals with prostate cancer will be aligned against an annotated reference human genome and SNPs will be identified using DNASTARs SeqMan NGen softw...
AUG 22, 2013 | 9:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
During IVF procedures pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) allows for genetic profiling of embryos prior to replacement. Most PGD procedures during IVF are performed to select chromosomal...
AUG 22, 2013 | 8:00 AM
Synthesis and assembly of DNA powerfully enables reverse genetics-based approaches to scientific discovery. I'll present recent and unpublished work on genome refactoring and redesign, focusi...
AUG 22, 2013 | 7:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Anticoagulation therapy is frequently employed to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation, prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism and pulmonary embolism in patients with prosthetic...
AUG 21, 2013 | 4:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
Approximately 98% of the human genome comprises noncoding DNA, the function of which is largely unknown. Intriguingly, more than 85% of single nucleotide polymorphisms identified to be associ...
AUG 21, 2013 | 1:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
In addition to the exciting promise that genome sequencing holds, concerns are also often described. These concerns relate to: privacy/confidentiality of findings; impact of findings on insur...
AUG 21, 2013 | 11:00 AM
RNASeq has become the primary method for studying changes in gene expression in modern genomics research. By directly sequencing the various types of RNA molecules, including mRNA, ncRNA, an...
AUG 21, 2013 | 10:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
In the United States, invasive aspergillosis (IA), an invasive fungal infection of the upper respiratory tract of immune compromised patients, is usually caused by Aspergilus fumigatus, while...
AUG 21, 2013 | 8:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
With the technical costs of genome sequencing continuously dropping, it is now feasible to offer this assay in a clinical context. Empirical evidence suggests that genome and exome sequencing...
AUG 21, 2013 | 6:00 AM
Genetic testing is becoming a widespread practice and with human genome fully sequenced we want to develop best methods to do it. Single gene or single mutation screening is pretty much becom...
MAY 30, 2013 | 11:00 AM
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