Genetics: the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms. It is generally considered a field of biology, but intersects frequently with many other life sciences and is strongly linked with the study of information systems. The father of genetics is Gregor Mendel, a late 19th-century scientist and Augustinian friar. Mendel studied "trait inheritance", patterns in the way traits are handed down from parents to offspring. He observed that organisms (pea plants) inherit traits by way of discrete "units of inheritance". This term, still used today, is a somewhat ambiguous definition of what is referred to as a gene.
DATE: November 16, 2016
TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET
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TIME: 9:00 AM PT, 12:00 PM ET
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TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET
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TIME: 9:00 AM PST, 12:00 PM ET
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DATE: November 16, 2016
TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET
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TIME: 9:00 AM PT, 12:00 PM ET
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TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET
Stock and individual identification of Coho and Chinook Salmon in British Columbia via amplicon sequencing
We have assemble...
The recent Zika virus outbreak highlights the need for low-cost diagnostics that can be rapidly developed for distribution and use in pandemic regions. In early 2016 we developed a pipe...
The aim of the learning healthcare system is to leverage data stored in the electronic health record (EHR) to gain insights into and improve healthcare delivery. Laboratory testing represents...
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Whole genome and exome sequencing is being widely used to identify disease-causing variants in patients with hereditary and rare diseases. Discovering the true disease-causing variants often...
Tumors often evade immune destruction by adapting and circumventing immune checkpoints to create resistance. This adaptive immunity can be reversed to stimulate the endogenous immune re...
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Real-time multiplex PCR assays are potentially the most rapid, most sensitive,and least expensive way to assess the abundance of mutant DNA fragments present in liquid biopsies; provided th...
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TIME: 9:00 AM PST, 12:00 PM ET
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It is well accepted that microorganisms can exist as self-organized communities attached to surfaces and one another (i.e., biofilm), often surrounded by extracellular polymeric substances (E...
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The study of human genetic neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) is complicated by the inaccessibility of the relevant tissue for study: it is extremely rare to obtain post-surgical brain sampl...
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