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Lab tests are medical procedures used to evaluate biological samples such as blood, urine, or tissue. Lab tests are used for diagnostics, to aid in treatment planning, to monitor the efficacy of a therapy, or evaluate how a disease changes over time.
SEP 11, 2018 | 7:00 AM
DATE: September 11, 2018TIME: 07:00AM PDTWith increasing safety requirements, and time and financial pressure, the development of new drugs, and the execution of basic research p...
SEP 01, 2018 | 8:00 AM
Delicate cultures including stem cells and primary cells are increasingly used in cell therapy research and development for applications in oncology, immunology, neurology and more. Commonly,...
AUG 07, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: August 7, 2018TIME: 08:00AM PDT, 11:00AM EDTWe are currently at an exciting precipice in clinical oncology management, where an increased rate of biomarker identification is drivi...
JUN 29, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: June 29, 2018TIME: 8:00AM PDTMeasurement of these metabolites represents the digital readout of health. A key aspect of metabolomics is the utilization of high resolu...
JUN 26, 2018 | 6:00 AM
Date: June 26, 2018Time: 6:00 a.m. PDT, 9:00 a.m. EDT, 1500 CEST Today’s hematology analyzers employ various methods for enumerating platelets. These methods include: e...
JUN 20, 2018 | 9:00 AM
When the human genome was sequenced almost 15 years ago, it was a milestone for the understanding of an individual’s genome. However to fully understand a disease, millions of ind...
JUN 20, 2018 | 7:00 AM
DATE: June 20, 2018TIME: 07:00AM PDT, 10:00AM EDTIntroducing GE’s New Lyo-StableTM service. Sepsis is one of the top challenges facing hospitals in terms of clinical outcomes...
MAY 31, 2018 | 1:30 PM
The miniaturized total chemical analysis system has been successfully repurposed over the past twenty years or so for engineering cellular microenvironments which more faithfully mimic in viv...
MAY 31, 2018 | 12:00 PM
I will discuss three novel technologies that our laboratory has developed in recent years. In the first part of the talk, I will describe our work on engineering variants of the RNA-guided en...
MAY 31, 2018 | 10:30 AM
The next step towards more biomimetic in vitro models is the design of multi-organ devices, which allow for communication of different tissue types. Combining physiologically relevant organ m...
MAY 31, 2018 | 9:00 AM
Cell-based assays are more biologically relevant than biochemical assays yet significantly more scalable than in vivo experiments. However, care must be taken in sample preparation to e...
MAY 31, 2018 | 7:30 AM
Over the years high throughput screening has evolved from monolithic static systems to modular more dynamic platforms. At NCATS the approach taken has been to optimize our existing lega...
MAY 31, 2018 | 6:00 AM
This talk will reflect on what we can expect from the lab of the future and explore avenues towards such a digital lab. A major component of a digital lab is integration of instruments, syste...
