A primary cell is a battery that is designed to be used once and discarded, and not recharged with electricity and reused like a secondary cell. In general, the electrochemical reaction occurring in the cell is not reversible, rendering the cell unrechargeable.
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Free light chains, kappa (κ) lambda (λ), are produced by plasma cells and known to be an important marker in patients with Multiple Myeloma and AL Amyloidosis. The precursor con...
Date: April 25, 2023 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) A liquid biopsy is a non-invasive alternative to a surgical biopsy that enables researchers to learn a range of infor...
Date: March 01, 2023 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 5:00pm (CET) Characterizing metastasis remains key for understanding and eradicating cancer. The study of circulating tumor cells (CTC...
Have you ever tried to access the genomic profiles of cell lines before using them in your preclinical experiments just to come up empty-handed? Maybe you’ve scoured public databases f...
Many current technologies used in drug discovery and preclinical development programmes typically involve multi-step operations, extensive hands-on time, and lengthy liquid handling processe...
Date: February 15, 2023 Time: 7:00am (PST), 10:00pm (EST), 4:00pm (CET) While not all microscopy samples can fluoresce, all can scatter light, and this scattered light can be imaged. This ha...
Date: February 09, 2023 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST), 6:00pm (CET) Monoclonal gammopathies (MGs) comprise a broad set of diseases involving the abnormal clonal proliferation of plasma c...
Date: February 08, 2023 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST), 6:00pm (CEST) Understanding cell-to-cell interactions in a tumor microenvironment are increasingly challenging due to the complexit...
Date: November 08, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 5:00pm (CEST) While flow cytometry shines by its flexibility, it requires a high level of expertise in antibody panel development,...
Date: October 19, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Stem cell therapy, in which stem cells are used for disease treatment or tissue repair, is an increasingly active area...
At the end of 2019, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causative agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), emerged in China. As of September 2022, SARS-CoV...
Date: October 12, 2022, October 13, 2022 Time: 8:30pm (PDT), 11:30pm (EDT), 5:30am (CEST) High dimensional full spectrum flow cytometry holds the promise of addressing long-held questions in...
Date: October 04, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) The ability to derive induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from differentiated cell types such as fibroblasts, has r...
Date: September 15, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Tyrosine kinases, a ubiquitous and diverse family of enzymes, are of considerable clinical interest because they dir...
Date: July 19, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Cryo-EM is rapidly becoming the method of choice for structural biologists and biochemists around the world, helping thes...
Date: June 21, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the plasma cell. Plasma cells are white blood cells that make antibodies that help to pro...
Date: June 09, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) It is known that immune responses of pregnant women undergo recognized changes that ensure the mother does not reject the...
Date: May 24, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Recent breakthroughs in autologous cellular therapies have generated tremendous excitement for the industry; however, thes...
During the first year of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, international monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 genomic RNA revealed that the virus accumulated roughly 2 mutations per month. Nonetheless, one nonsy...
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases (AD, PD) are the two most common neurodegenerative disorders. Despite their debilitating effects and increasing prevalence in our society, no...