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Immunity
Immunity: is the balanced state of multicellular organisms having adequate biological defenses to fight infection, disease, or other unwanted biological invasion, while having adequate tolerance to avoid allergy, and autoimmune diseases.
FEB 27, 2019 | 6:00 AM
The last two decades have seen an explosion in the volume of oncology data generated using next-generation sequencing (NGS) and multi-omics techniques. As a result, there is a growing need fo...
FEB 14, 2019 | 7:30 AM
Comparative oncology is the study of naturally-occurring cancers in pet animals (mainly dogs) to broaden and deepen our collective understanding of cancers in both companion species and human...
JAN 31, 2019 | 7:30 AM
Prodrugs are harmless in their native state, as they are not targeted by human enzymes. But they can be converted into highly toxic compounds (the “drug”) by viral or bacterial en...
JAN 29, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: January 29. 2019TIME: 09:00am PST, 12:00pm EST In healthy tissue, a reservoir of stem cells gives rise to non-stem cells while simul...
DEC 12, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: December 012, 2018TIME: 08:00 PSTImmunotherapy is a powerful treatment that harnesses the body’s immune system in the fight against cancer. With optimized cell therapy,...
DEC 10, 2018 | 10:00 PM
DATE: December 11, 2018TIME: 06:00 PSTIt’s understood and accepted that animal disease models generally offer great value for pre-clinical research and efficient drug screeni...
DEC 06, 2018 | 7:00 AM
DATE: December 06, 2018TIME: 7:00AM PSTHigh-throughput confocal microscopy has changed the way drug screening can be performed, by enabling the detection of single-cell pheno...
DEC 05, 2018 | 9:00 AM
DATE: December 5, 2018TIME: 9:00AM PDTThe mouse is a critical, increasingly used model system in biomedical research and preclinical drug discovery. While technological advances en...
NOV 29, 2018 | 9:00 AM
DATE: November 29, 2018TIME: 9:00AM PDTAn overview of primary immune deficiency disorders (PID) and laboratory testing for PIDPrimary immune deficiencies (PIDs), oth...
NOV 28, 2018 | 7:00 AM
DATE: November 28, 2018TIME: 7:00AM PSTSingle-cell genomics enables a deep dive into the mechanisms responsible for health and disease, in areas from cancer biology to neurob...
NOV 15, 2018 | 2:00 AM
In contrast to autologous cell therapies, allogeneic therapies do not require collection of starting material from patients and could; be manufactured in larger batches, be made available &ld...
NOV 07, 2018 | 8:00 PM
DATE: November 7, 2018TIME: 8:00PM PSTExosomes have been shown to have significant roles in cancer including disease progression acting in the tumor micro-environment, metasta...
NOV 07, 2018 | 7:00 AM
DATE: November 7, 2018TIME: 7:00AM PDTExosomes have been shown to have significant roles in cancer including disease progression acting in the tumor micro-environment, metastasis a...
NOV 05, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Biomedical researchers are increasingly using advanced human cell models for translational biology and therapeutic discovery studies. These include patient-specific samples, cultured micro-ti...
NOV 02, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Despite exciting recent developments in neuroscience, identifying novel, truly effective treatments for patients with neurological and psychiatric conditions remains highly challenging. There...
NOV 01, 2018 | 12:00 AM
The success of immune checkpoint blockade adds a new therapeutic category to the cancer therapy repertoire. Despite efforts made on cancer cell and immune cell interaction, how cancer cells i...
NOV 01, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Alongside intense efforts to exploit T-cells as immunotherapies for cancer (e.g. checkpoint inhibitors, CAR-T, T-cell metabolism), researchers are increasingly considering other immune cell t...
NOV 01, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Integrated protocols and live-cell analysis solutions for different 3D tumor modelsIn the search for greater clinical translation, cancer researchers are increasingly turning to more comp...
NOV 01, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Deriving deeper biological insight & improving productivity in immune-cell biologyThe most common in vitro methods for immunologists to analyze cells of the immune system are flow cyt...
OCT 25, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: October 25, 2018TIME: 08:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT While the significance of the microbiome is unprecedented, a thorough study to dissect the role of individual popul...
OCT 23, 2018 | 7:00 AM
DATE: October 23, 2018TIME: 7:00AM PDTHigh Throughput Screening for the European Lead Factory (ELF) has been performed at Pivot Park Screening Centre (PPSC). 72 HTS campaigns have...
OCT 11, 2018 | 12:00 PM
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Large-scale sequencing studies have revealed the complex genomic landscape of NSCLC and genomic differences between lun...
OCT 10, 2018 | 12:00 PM
To date the anatomic extent of tumor (TNM-classification) has been by far the most important factors to predict the prognosis of cancer patients. However, this classification provides limited...
JAN 31, 2019 | 7:30 AM
Prodrugs are harmless in their native state, as they are not targeted by human enzymes. But they can be converted into highly toxic compounds (the “drug”) by viral or bacterial en...