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Genetic Disease
Genetic diseases are disorders stemming from mutations in an individual's DNA sequence. These conditions can be a result of mutations in a single or multiple genes. An example of a genetic disease is cystic fibrosis: an inherited, progressive disease that affects the respiratory system.
DEC 14, 2021 | 6:00 AM
Date: December 14, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PST), 9:00am (EST) Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a single-stranded positive-sense RNA virus and is a leading cause of acute viral hepatitis worldwide. The...
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 09, 2021 | 8:00 AM
Date: December 9, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Engineering human regulatory T cells (Tregs) with a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) targeting donorderived human leukocyte antigen (H...
DEC 07, 2021 | 9:00 AM
Date: December 7, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected more than...
DEC 01, 2021 | 9:00 AM
Date: December 1, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) The enumeration and analysis of blood cells with automated haematology analysers have significantly improved in recent years due to a...
NOV 17, 2021 | 8:00 AM
Date: November 17, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) From waste disposal to promising biomarkers and therapeutic agents, exosomes and other extracellular vesicles are valuable in resear...
NOV 15, 2021 | 6:00 AM
Date: November 15, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT) Targeted sequencing of respiratory viruses’ genomes is important to identify novel viral variants. Compared to amplicon sequenc...
NOV 10, 2021 | 11:59 PM
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...
NOV 10, 2021 | 1:30 PM
While clinical microbiology laboratories are pivotal in the identification and handling of infectious diseases, the microbiology lab environment is rapidly changing. Conventional testing met...
NOV 10, 2021 | 10:00 AM
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...
NOV 10, 2021 | 7:30 AM
Copy number variant (CNV) analysis has been part of clinical diagnostics for almost two decades. With the evolution of genomic technologies for CNV detection, we have learned that CNVs can r...
NOV 08, 2021 | 8:00 AM
Date: November 8, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Explore the adaptability of your KingFisher instrument. Discover all the ways your Thermo Scientific™ KingFisher™ system...
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 28, 2021 | 9:00 AM
Date: October 28, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) uses a stand-displacing DNA polymerase and four to six primers to rapidly amplify DNA a...
OCT 26, 2021 | 11:00 AM
Date: October 26, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) The retina is the light-sensing part of the visual system and is composed of six neuron types and several non-neuronal cell types, wi...
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 | 1:00 PM
Upon completion of the human genome project, it was determined that greater than 90% of human diseases are due not solely to a person’s genetics but a combination of genetic factors an...
OCT 13, 2021 | 1:30 PM
This presentation “SARS-CoV-2 Related Workflow and Solutions: Detection and Genotyping” will focus on strategies for the testing and detection of SARS-CoV-2, including multiplexe...
OCT 07, 2021 | 1:30 PM
Competing to offer a comprehensive genomic profiling service for solid or hematology oncology tumor samples is challenging, especially as panels increase in size and complexity. QIAGEN Clini...
OCT 06, 2021 | 11:55 PM
One of the central tenants of biology is that our genetics—our genotype—influences the physical characteristics we manifest—our phenotype. But with more than 25,000 human g...
