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Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that is created by melanocyctes that have mutated. Melanocytes are pigment cells that are found on the skin. However, melanoma can occur in the intestines and eyes in more rare cases. Melanoma is a common form of cancer and considered the most dangerous form, there a more than 200,000 cases per year. Treatment can include: radiation, surgery, medication, or chemotherapy.
MAY 24, 2022 | 11:00 AM
Date: May 24, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) NGS tumor profiling has become the mainstay of modern cancer therapy. Several NCCN-guided and FDA-approved therapies are c...
MAR 31, 2022 | 11:00 AM
Date: March 31, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CET) Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues are the most widely used clinical sample types in histology and molecular...
FEB 23, 2022 | 6:00 AM
Cancer still accounts for nearly 1 in every 4 deaths worldwide. New immunotherapies have the power to induce durable responses in patients with fatal cancers, but only a small percentage of...
DEC 07, 2021 | 10:00 AM
Date: December 07, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PST) The RNAscope™ technology allows high sensitivity and spatial resolution providing pivotal single-cell information to gain better insights in...
AUG 26, 2021 | 7:00 AM
Date: August 26, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a fatal disease with rising incidence and a remarkable resistance to current therapies. In t...
AUG 18, 2021 | 8:00 AM
Date: August 18, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Discover the tools to phenotype your NK cells and to perform functional analyses such as cellular cytotoxicity assays. From NK cell is...
JUN 02, 2021 | 12:00 AM
Despite the promising results with current approved immunotherapies, all patients do not have the same level of response, and recent efforts have focused on understanding and avoiding immuno...
APR 28, 2021 | 9:00 AM
Proximity Ligation Assay (PLA), is a powerful technique for demonstrating the presence of 2 unique targets in direct proximity of each other in tissue sections. It allows visualization of in...
APR 21, 2021 | 12:00 AM
Engineered cell therapy is an emerging field of science to target and treat cancer. Current strategies include utilizing immune cells such as T cells, NK cells and Macrophages or other cells...
DEC 07, 2020 | 9:00 AM
Date: December 7, 2020 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) The simultaneous detection of biomarkers on tissue samples plays a fundamental role in the study of the tumor microenvironment. Multi...
NOV 12, 2020 | 12:00 AM
Cancer cells can acquire immune resistance resulting in a loss of immunosurveillance. Tumor cells can upregulate PDL-1 which binds to PD-1. This complex inhibits CD8 Tumor Infiltrating cells...
NOV 04, 2020 | 6:00 AM
Date: November 4, 2020 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT) The Global Scar Society was formed to gain consensus for and promote best practice in the prevention and treatment of abnormal & e...
OCT 08, 2020 | 7:00 AM
DATE: October 8, 2020 TIME: 7:00am PDT, 10:00am EDT, 4:00pm CEST How often do you pipette in your cell culture lab every day? Usually, we do it so often that we tend stop thinking about ho...
SEP 17, 2020 | 12:45 PM
Immunotherapy such as immune checkpoint inhibitor antibodies have revolutionized the treatments for hard-to-treat cancers, with durable responses observed in clinics. However, the overall re...
AUG 06, 2020 | 12:00 AM
Despite the increasing number of effective anti-cancer therapies, successful treatment is limited by the development of drug resistance. While the contribution of genetic factors to drug res...
