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Pathogen
Pathogen is any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism. It is an organism causing disease to its host, with the severity of the disease symptoms referred to as virulence. They include viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites that invade the body and can cause health issues.
SEP 05, 2023 | 10:30 AM
Intestinal epithelial cells lining the surface of our gastro-intestinal tract form a tight monolayer which serves as the primary barrier separating us from the luminal content of the gut. Th...
SEP 05, 2023 | 7:30 AM
The immune system evolved to protect us against pathogen invasion and to maintain tissue homeostasis. Fundamental for these functions are the interferons (IFNs), a group of cytokines that be...
AUG 29, 2023 | 8:00 AM
Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells change and adapt to their environments in ways that genomic characterization methods do not fully capture or predict. Even strains of the same species of mic...
AUG 24, 2023 | 8:30 PM
When building your own infectious disease molecular panels there are many paths to consider. In this interview, we ask Marcus Cognetti and Dr. Ari Frenkel what approach is required to create...
JUL 25, 2023 | 8:00 PM
NEED ABSTRACT Learning Objectives Understand how the challenges of amplification from low input DNA, including single cells, can be overcome Discover why more researchers are using a next ge...
JUN 28, 2023 | 8:00 AM
Laboratories performing diagnostic testing for infectious diseases have an obligation to meet the needs of multiple patient populations. With infectious disease, time it takes for reporting...
JUN 22, 2023 | 11:00 AM
When building your own infectious disease molecular panels there are many paths to consider. In this interview, we ask Marcus Cognetti and Dr. Ari Frenkel what approach is required to create...
JUN 13, 2023 | 2:00 PM
Prompt and early diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is important to enable appropriate treatment and help prevent further transmission. Clinical testing labs require STI tes...
MAY 31, 2023 | 10:00 AM
Date: May 31, 2023 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are defined as a systemic infection resulting from the presence of viable microorganisms in...
MAY 31, 2023 | 6:00 AM
Although metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) is increasingly used in clinical microbiological diagnosis, especially for rare or complicated infectious diseases, the applications of...
MAY 18, 2023 | 7:30 AM
For infectious disease pathogen detection and research, real-time PCR enables reliable, sensitive, specific, and scalable results over slower culture-based methods...
APR 20, 2023 | 7:00 AM
Date: April 20, 2023 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) A recent systematic review found that more than half of known infectious diseases will be aggravated by climate hazards,...
APR 11, 2023 | 11:00 AM
Date: April 11, 2023 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) Antimicrobial resistant (AMR) infections are on the rise causing approximately 1.3M deaths each year due to patients suc...
APR 05, 2023 | 2:30 PM
DNA vaccines have emerged as a promising technology for developing COVID-19 vaccines due to their ability to be quickly designed and manufactured after obtaining the pathogen or cancer antig...
APR 05, 2023 | 11:00 AM
Date: April 05, 2023 Time: 11:00am (NZDT) Date: April 04, 2023 Time: 4:00pm (PST), 7:00pm (EST), 1:00pm (CET) Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technology-based testing method has been widely...
MAR 30, 2023 | 12:05 PM
Dr. Ritterhouse's laboratory has implemented rapid and ultra rapid protocol for NSCLC genomic profiling, based on NGS. This has led to significant shortening of turn around time (TAT) an...
March 23/24 2023
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MAR 22, 2023 | 6:00 AM
Digital Droplet PCR (ddPCR) is a method for performing digital PCR use microfluidic water-oil emulsion technology. By utilizing microfluidics and fractionating DNA samples into nanoliter dro...
