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Human health and disease
Human health and disease refers to understanding what contributes to human health (the staste of mental, social, and physical being) and what factors may deter health (such as disease, infection, etc.)
SEP 12, 2019 | 8:00 AM
DATE: September 12, 2019TIME: 8:00am PDTIn the upcoming era of personalized medicine, there is a growing need for the development of rapid, sensitive, precise and accurate analysis of t...
SEP 12, 2019 | 6:00 AM
With humans pushing to live further off Earth for longer periods of time, it is increasingly important to understand the changes that occur in biological systems during spaceflight whether th...
SEP 11, 2019 | 1:30 PM
Background: The vast majority of all genes are contained within the genomes of the prokaryotes, including the eubacteria and the archaea. These largely single-cellular domains of life thus...
SEP 11, 2019 | 12:00 PM
immunocompromised populations where the virus can cause systemic and even fatal infections. Indeed, we have shown that astrovirus infections are more prevalent than norovirus in our pediatric...
SEP 10, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: September 10, 2019TIME: 9:00am PDTAfter new users become familiar with flow cytometry instrumentation and learn how to set up the instrument and acquire data, the next topic to ma...
AUG 27, 2019 | 8:00 AM
DATE: August 27, 2019TIME: 08:00 AM PDTOur laboratory is exploring hypotheses about how lipid metabolism contributes to racial disparities in Alzheimer’s disease using comprehen...
AUG 22, 2019 | 7:30 AM
The incidence of conditions such as diabetes, obesity, asthma, and cancer have increased substantially in the past 30 years. The human genome has not changed in that period of time, so the en...
AUG 15, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: August 15, 2019TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Radiation therapy is a critical tool for the treatment of brain tumors, however, exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation...
AUG 14, 2019 | 8:00 AM
DATE: August 14, 2019TIME: 8:00am PDT Infectious disease surveillance and monitoring is critical in settings where disease outbreaks and antibiotic resistance can dramatically im...
JUL 31, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: July 31, 2019TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET The choroid plexus, which makes up the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier in the central nervous system (CNS), lines the ventricle...
JUN 20, 2019 | 9:00 AM
The NIH put Precision Medicine on the map as a revolutionary way to manage disease, delivering the right treatment, to the right patient, at the right time. But what does Precision Medicine r...
JUN 20, 2019 | 8:00 AM
DATE: June 20, 2019TIME: 8:00am PDTRetinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are projection neurons that process and transmit visual information from the retina to the brain. In a group of disea...
JUN 19, 2019 | 10:00 AM
DATE: June 19, 2019TIME: 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDT As we develop new methods to create more biologically relevant models for research in understanding disease etiology and in...
MAY 23, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: May 23, 2019TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Although mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSCs) chondrogenic differentiation has been thoroughly investigated...
MAY 21, 2019 | 7:00 AM
DATE: May 21, 2019TIMEL 7:00am PT, 10:00am ET Human T cells are central effectors of immunity and cancer immunotherapy. CRISPR-based functional studies in T cells could prioriti...
MAY 16, 2019 | 4:00 PM
DATE: May 16, 2019TIME: 7:00am PDT, 10:00am EDT, 4:00pm CEST The emergence of NGS is revolutionizing the microbiological sciences and transforming medicine. Deep sequencing has...
MAY 09, 2019 | 9:00 AM
Release of the first human genome assembly was a landmark achievement, and after nearly two decades of improvements, the current human reference genome (GRCh38) is the most accurate and compl...
