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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.
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...
SEP 29, 2021 | 10:30 AM
Multi-target screening can offer great insight into the genetic pathways in drug resistance and disease. RNAi and the fast pace of CRISPR technology development has brought sophisticated opt...
SEP 28, 2021 | 9:00 AM
Date: September 28, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Standardization and reproducibility are prerequisites for peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) generation from donor or patient...
SEP 27, 2021 | 8:00 AM
Date: September 27, 2021 Time: 8:00am PDT Depression affects more than 264 million people worldwide and is a major contributor to the overall global burden of disease. The pathophysiology of...
SEP 27, 2021 | 11:00 AM
Date: September 27, 2021 Time: 3:00am (PDT), 6:00am (EDT), 12pm (CET) Experts are predicting an increase in influenza cases and a constant presence of SARS-CoV-2 in the shortly approaching i...
SEP 22, 2021 | 11:59 PM
Bladder cancer is the 4th most prevalent cancer in men, 11th in women and presents one of the highest rates of post-treatment recurrence (70%) among malignancies. Despite its impact on human...
SEP 22, 2021 | 9:00 AM
Cells of the liver and pancreas are highly polarized and well differentiated, contributing to food digestion through the secretion of lipid emulsifying bile, and proteolytic juice into the g...
SEP 22, 2021 | 6:00 AM
Extracellular vesicles provide a tool to measure tumour characteristics in blood, at various stages of cancer development. We have extensively used multiplex RNA bead-based assays (Quantigen...
SEP 14, 2021 | 7:00 AM
Date: September 14, 2021 Time: 7am PDT, 10am EDT, 4pm CEST A conventional thermal cycler has long been a commodity product in the lab and end-point PCR techniques can be completed almost wit...
SEP 09, 2021 | 7:00 AM
Date: September 9, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) Founded and maintained by the Institute of Medical Genetics at Cardiff University in 1996, HGMD attempts to collate all known, publi...
SEP 09, 2021 | 12:00 AM
Microbiome sequencing data are known to be biased; the measured taxa relative abundances can be systematically distorted from their true values at every step in the experimental/analysis wor...
SEP 09, 2021 | 12:00 AM
We currently do not have effective vaccines or antiviral drugs for most of the viral diseases that afflict humans. Antiviral therapies that enable long-term control over human immunodeficien...
