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Molecular Epidemiology
Molecular Epidemiology: a branch of epidemiology and medical science that focuses on the contribution of potential genetic and environmental risk factors, identified at the molecular level, to the etiology, distribution and prevention of disease within families and across populations.
NOV 12, 2015 | 7:30 AM
As one of the nation's most prevalent sexually transmitted infections, genital herpes represents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to clinicians, laboratorians and the patients they...
NOV 11, 2015 | 12:00 PM
In November of 2013 the AHA/ACA jointly proposed new guidelines for the management of hypercholesterolemia, the first full update in over a decade. The charge was to create evidence bas...
SEP 03, 2015 | 7:30 AM
Control of infection from methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been a healthcare focus for more than 50 years. One of the reasons that active surveillance testing (AST) for...
SEP 02, 2015 | 6:00 AM
Among many surprising insights, the genomic revolution has helped us to realize that we're never alone and, in fact, barely human. For most of our lives, we share our bodies with some ten ti...
JUL 22, 2015 | 9:00 AM
DATE: July 22, 2015TIME: 9:00AM PT, 12:00PM ETHuman induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) bring human biology into pre-clinical aspects of drug discovery. iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes have em...
MAY 14, 2015 | 1:30 PM
Asthma is heritable, influenced by the environment, and is modified by in utero exposures and aging; all of these features are also common to epigenetic regulation. Furthermore, genetic varia...
OCT 30, 2014 | 12:00 PM
Although the incidence of breast cancer is steadily increasing, mortality rates are decreasing. This means that the majority of women with breast cancer now survive, making it even more impor...
AUG 21, 2014 | 9:45 AM
In this presentation I describe pathway based analyses of genotyping data to identify pathways related to the development of complex diseases, with a focus on lung cancer and selected autoimm...
