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Life Sciences: is defined as all sciences that have to do with 'organisms', like plants, animals and human beings. Life Sciences encompass companies in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, biomedical technologies, life systems technologies, nutraceuticals, cosmeceuticals, and other organizations and fields that devote the majority of their efforts in the various stages of research, development, technology transfer and commercialization.
FEB 06, 2014 | 9:00 AM
The 2011 Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals has required that institutions place importance on assuring that staff working with animals are trained and competent to perform thei...
FEB 05, 2014 | 11:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Almost all discussion to date on the ethics of animal use in research has revolved around the balance of harms (to the animals) versus benefits (to us) associated with conducting the researc...
FEB 05, 2014 | 10:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
An anesthesia system designed to accommodate the physiological characteristics of small animals, including rats and mice, has the potential to provide great practical value to the life scien...
FEB 01, 2014 | 8:00 AM
Abstract:
•General background, diagnostic and bio-marker implications of exosomes research
•Current solutions to purifying and identifying exosomes rapidly and accurately
•R...
OCT 17, 2013 | 2:00 PM
Copy number variation, a major cause of structural variation in the genome, plays an important role in human disease. Determination of copy number variation requires both precision and accura...
OCT 17, 2013 | 12:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
Personalized medicine is transforming biomedical research and healthcare service delivery. Disease definition, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention are being fundamentally altered by the capa...
OCT 17, 2013 | 11:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Curative therapy for metastatic disease in solid malignancies remains frustratingly elusive due to the long recognized problem of tumor cell heterogeneity and emergence of treatment resistant...
OCT 17, 2013 | 6:00 AM
The widespread adoption of precision medicine in oncology requires: a compendium of therapies targeting the genetic vulnerabilities of cancer; the diagnostic tools capable of generating a pr...
OCT 16, 2013 | 2:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
While the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) blood test has been available since 1986 and FDA-approved for the early detection of prostate cancer since the early 1990s, 2012 marked a critical in...
OCT 16, 2013 | 12:00 PM
The effective implementation of personalised cancer therapeutic regimens depends on the successful identification and translation of informative biomarkers to aid clinical decision making. Th...
OCT 16, 2013 | 10:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
The current paradigm of detecting established cancer (often too late) and treating routinely with cytotoxic drugs is beginning to change. Advanced technologies such as whole genome sequencin...
AUG 22, 2013 | 4:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
The next generation sequencing technologies are profoundly influencing our way to study biology. We have previously developed cap-analysis gene expression (CAGE) to simultaneously mRNA/noncod...
AUG 22, 2013 | 1:00 PM
Personalized medicine is transforming biomedical research and healthcare service delivery. Disease definition, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention are being fundamentally altered by the capa...
AUG 22, 2013 | 7:00 AM
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a heterogenous disease that affects 1.5% of the population. Similar to cancer, early detection coupled with an effective treatment strategy can significantly impr...
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 | 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 | 6:00 AM
A 2013 survey conducted by the Woodrow Wilson Synthetic Biology Project found that 75% of adults have heard just a little or nothing at all about synthetic biology, figures that were virtuall...
MAY 30, 2013 | 12:00 PM
Development of a companion diagnostic can be critical to the success of a drug. Pharmaceutical companies are committing more and more of their efforts to discover and deliver targeted therapi...
MAR 23, 2013 | 8:00 AM
Dr. Johannes van der Loo will cover the vital role viral vectors play in today's gene research, as well as the use of ultracentrifugation to produce these key delivery systems.
Learnin...
MAR 01, 2013 | 8:00 AM
Abstract:
Understand unique attributes of diamond-based nanoparticles and why it is used for imaging for cancer and drug delivery
Understand in-vitro and in-vivo applications of diamond...
OCT 26, 2011 | 2:00 PM
 Autophagy is a normal degradative pathway that involves the sequestration of entire organelles, protein complexes, and misfolded proteins in a membrane vacuole called the autophagosome. The ...