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.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has taken a dramatic toll worldwide. Its impact possibly has been the most palpable amongst uniquely vulnerable groups of patients, such as patients with a cancer diagn...
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Regardless of method, single cell RNA-seq only captures a small fraction of the transcriptome of each cell. Often, this is due to inherent limitations of the methodology as reads ‘drop...
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Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) uses a stand-displacing DNA polymerase and four to six primers to rapidly amplify DNA at a single temperature. By eliminating temperature cyclin...
The CYP2D6 enzyme metabolizes approximately 25% of commonly used pharmaceuticals and is of intense pharmacogenetic interest. Polymorphisms in CYP2D6 can alter an individual’s response...
Date: March 24, 2021 Time: 08:00am (PDT), 11:00pm (EDT) Simply enough, we want to treat our cells well. Afterall, we want them to tell us their stories in basic research or work for us in th...
Date: March 01, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PST), 1:00pm (EST), 7:00pm (CEST) The high mortality of COVID-19 is mostly attributed to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), whose histopathologic...
Date: February 24, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) Cytokine profiling is a valuable tool used in preclinical research for monitoring an immune response and cell signaling pathways dur...
High-throughput sequencing technology such as RNASeq and whole genome sequencing has enabled deep characterization of health and disease states. Biomarker discovery by these means has only h...