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Laboratory Medicine
Laboratory Medicine: is where clinical tests are carried out to obtain information about the health of a patient to aid in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease.
AUG 22, 2013 | 2:00 PM
Since the introduction of second-generation DNS sequencing technologies in 2007, the cost of genome sequencing has been consistently by 33% per quarter, with the $1000 genome arriving in 2012...
AUG 22, 2013 | 2:00 PM
The role of the human genome in normal and patho-biology is crucial. Applied in cancer care and in a variety of unknown disorder settings, it can provide key insights and crucial diagnostic/p...
AUG 22, 2013 | 12:00 PM
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It is widely accepted that approximately 85% of known disease-causing DNA variants affect the exons and splice junctions, which is about 1% of the whole genome. As a result, Clinical Exome Se...
AUG 22, 2013 | 10:00 AM
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The advent of massively parallel sequencing by next generation sequencing platforms now allow genomic approaches for individualizing healthcare. Genomic sequencing data reveals variants in ge...
AUG 22, 2013 | 9:00 AM
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During IVF procedures pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) allows for genetic profiling of embryos prior to replacement. Most PGD procedures during IVF are performed to select chromosomal...
AUG 22, 2013 | 7:00 AM
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Cancer cells are characterized by major alterations in both cellular metabolism and epigenetic profiles. Current understanding of links between metabolism and chromatin in the context of canc...
AUG 22, 2013 | 7:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Anticoagulation therapy is frequently employed to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation, prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism and pulmonary embolism in patients with prosthetic...
AUG 21, 2013 | 4:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
The goal of personalized medicine is to customize healthcare to the individual patient. Pharmacogenomics, the analysis of how a patient's genetic makeup affects the individual's response to c...
AUG 21, 2013 | 2:00 PM
Increasingly genome sequence knowledge is unraveling the complexity of rare Mendelian disorders offering hope for our children's medical care through better disease diagnosis and ultimately p...
AUG 21, 2013 | 2:00 PM
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The human species is particularly prone to chromosome segregation errors during maternal meiosis in the egg and during post zygotic mitosis in the preimplantation embryo. In fact, aneuploidy...
AUG 21, 2013 | 1:00 PM
Cervical cancer screening has evolved significantly since the PAP smear was introduced in 1949. In particular, the association with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and the mechanism of H...
AUG 21, 2013 | 9:00 AM
Personalized medicine is expected to benefit from the combination of genomic information with the global monitoring of molecular components and physiological states. To ascertain whether this...
AUG 21, 2013 | 8:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
As a component of individualized medicine, pharmacogenetics (PGx) focuses on how genetic factors influence individual responses to specific medications. The clinical goals of pharmacogenetics...
AUG 21, 2013 | 8:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
With the technical costs of genome sequencing continuously dropping, it is now feasible to offer this assay in a clinical context. Empirical evidence suggests that genome and exome sequencing...
AUG 15, 2013 | 9:00 AM
Recent studies show a large prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency in populations of all ages. Concerns about excess supplementation and toxicity have emerged as a result. Th...
MAY 30, 2013 | 9:00 AM
Survival rates for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remain unacceptably low compared to other common solid tumors. This mortality reflects a weakness in conventional staging, as...
AUG 22, 2013 | 7:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Anticoagulation therapy is frequently employed to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation, prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism and pulmonary embolism in patients with prosthetic...
AUG 21, 2013 | 4:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
The goal of personalized medicine is to customize healthcare to the individual patient. Pharmacogenomics, the analysis of how a patient's genetic makeup affects the individual's response to c...
AUG 21, 2013 | 2:00 PM
Increasingly genome sequence knowledge is unraveling the complexity of rare Mendelian disorders offering hope for our children's medical care through better disease diagnosis and ultimately p...
AUG 21, 2013 | 2:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
The human species is particularly prone to chromosome segregation errors during maternal meiosis in the egg and during post zygotic mitosis in the preimplantation embryo. In fact, aneuploidy...
AUG 21, 2013 | 1:00 PM
Cervical cancer screening has evolved significantly since the PAP smear was introduced in 1949. In particular, the association with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and the mechanism of H...
AUG 21, 2013 | 9:00 AM
Personalized medicine is expected to benefit from the combination of genomic information with the global monitoring of molecular components and physiological states. To ascertain whether this...
AUG 21, 2013 | 8:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
As a component of individualized medicine, pharmacogenetics (PGx) focuses on how genetic factors influence individual responses to specific medications. The clinical goals of pharmacogenetics...
AUG 21, 2013 | 8:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
With the technical costs of genome sequencing continuously dropping, it is now feasible to offer this assay in a clinical context. Empirical evidence suggests that genome and exome sequencing...
AUG 15, 2013 | 9:00 AM
Recent studies show a large prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency in populations of all ages. Concerns about excess supplementation and toxicity have emerged as a result. Th...
MAY 30, 2013 | 9:00 AM
Survival rates for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remain unacceptably low compared to other common solid tumors. This mortality reflects a weakness in conventional staging, as...