Quality Assurance: is a way of preventing mistakes and defects in manufactured products and avoiding problems when delivering products or services to customers; which ISO 9000 defines as "part of quality management focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled".
DATE: October 30, 2018TIME: 9:00AM PSTMass spectrometry-based proteomics is a rapidly growing area of research that provides useful information for many fields including basi...
DATE: September 19,2018TIME: 06:00am PDT, 09:00am EDT Statistical Quality Control is well established as a key assurance technique for medical laboratories. In chemistry and...
Precision medicine and next-generation sequencing – Two terms characterized by a highly dynamic nature, strong innovations and a bright future. Both merged together will exert a decisiv...
DATE: May 3rd, 2018TIME: 8:00 AM PDT, 11:00 AM EDTIntestinal inflammation is a hallmark of the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), including ulcerative colitis and Cr...
Screening for Down syndrome began with the question "How old will you be when you deliver?". If the pregnant woman answered 35 years of age or older, she was offered amniocent...
The integration of next-generation sequencing (NGS) tests into clinical laboratory practice across medical disciplines provides medically actionable data that in some cases are not otherwise...
Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) emerged in the United States around 2000. Initially, synthetic cannabinoids and stimulants prevailed. Now, designer opioids, benzodiazepines an...
DATE: October 26, 2017TIME: 12:00 PM PDTThis presentation will focus on recent advances in cellular therapy—from mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) to tumor-specific T-cells. More s...
DATE: June 14, 2017TIME: 6:00am PT, 9:00am ET, 3:00pm CETComprehensive metabolite profiling (i.e., metabolomics) offers a holistic approach for understanding the phenotype of an organis...
The Instrumentation Group at the BC Cancer Agency’s Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) is unusual in having an engineering group and extensive prototyping facilities embedded in a biomedical...
Those that fund and publish scientific data are actively proposing or requiring strategies to improve research conduct in the hopes of improving research outcomes and scientific deliverables....
In spite of the huge potential impact of microbiome science, current measurement capabilities are insufficient, particularly for translating discoveries and correlations observed in the lab i...
DATE: April 5, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETThis presentation will focus on the use of Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry as an alternative technology for measuring thyroid...
Challenges in achieving comparability, reproducibility and accuracy in biological assays has driven a demand for improved confidence in measurements that support development of regenerative m...
DATE: February 9, 2017TIME: 10:30am PT, 1:30pm ETDuring the last 50 years the claims for continuous development and training of laboratory animal staff has been progressively devel...
We describe a novel method to measure 1,25(OH)2D. Briefly, this method was built on four pillars: (1) the nuclear vitamin D receptor (VDR)`s ligand binding domain (LBD) as a capture mol...
Learn how the new Thermo Scientific LabLink xL quality assurance solution turns routine QC into an exciting, automated, simple process with fast troubleshooting, peer compariso...
Animal models have provided an important tool to help make the decision to take potential therapies from preclinical studies to humans. In the past several years, the strong reliance of the p...
Animal studies performed on behalf of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) are expected to uphold the core principles established by Corporate Policy 403, ‘Care, Welfare and Treatment of Animals by GS...
Quality animal research is based on quality animal care and use. This is achieved by coordinating several key personnel and activities, and implementing appropriate animal care and use proced...
DATE: December 9, 2015
TIME: 8am Pacific, 11am Eastern
Pharmaceutical product quality, effectiveness and shelf life depends significantly on the water content in these products, which mak...
Appropriate dosing of pharmaceuticals is critical to prevent sub-therapeutic efficacy or the occurrence of adverse events. However, genetic variability may significantly influence an individu...
DATE: October 30, 2018TIME: 9:00AM PSTMass spectrometry-based proteomics is a rapidly growing area of research that provides useful information for many fields including basi...
DATE: September 19,2018TIME: 06:00am PDT, 09:00am EDT Statistical Quality Control is well established as a key assurance technique for medical laboratories. In chemistry and...
Precision medicine and next-generation sequencing – Two terms characterized by a highly dynamic nature, strong innovations and a bright future. Both merged together will exert a decisiv...
DATE: May 3rd, 2018TIME: 8:00 AM PDT, 11:00 AM EDTIntestinal inflammation is a hallmark of the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), including ulcerative colitis and Cr...
Screening for Down syndrome began with the question "How old will you be when you deliver?". If the pregnant woman answered 35 years of age or older, she was offered amniocent...
The integration of next-generation sequencing (NGS) tests into clinical laboratory practice across medical disciplines provides medically actionable data that in some cases are not otherwise...
Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) emerged in the United States around 2000. Initially, synthetic cannabinoids and stimulants prevailed. Now, designer opioids, benzodiazepines an...
DATE: October 26, 2017TIME: 12:00 PM PDTThis presentation will focus on recent advances in cellular therapy—from mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) to tumor-specific T-cells. More s...
DATE: June 14, 2017TIME: 6:00am PT, 9:00am ET, 3:00pm CETComprehensive metabolite profiling (i.e., metabolomics) offers a holistic approach for understanding the phenotype of an organis...
The Instrumentation Group at the BC Cancer Agency’s Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) is unusual in having an engineering group and extensive prototyping facilities embedded in a biomedical...
Those that fund and publish scientific data are actively proposing or requiring strategies to improve research conduct in the hopes of improving research outcomes and scientific deliverables....
In spite of the huge potential impact of microbiome science, current measurement capabilities are insufficient, particularly for translating discoveries and correlations observed in the lab i...
DATE: April 5, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETThis presentation will focus on the use of Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry as an alternative technology for measuring thyroid...
Challenges in achieving comparability, reproducibility and accuracy in biological assays has driven a demand for improved confidence in measurements that support development of regenerative m...
DATE: February 9, 2017TIME: 10:30am PT, 1:30pm ETDuring the last 50 years the claims for continuous development and training of laboratory animal staff has been progressively devel...
We describe a novel method to measure 1,25(OH)2D. Briefly, this method was built on four pillars: (1) the nuclear vitamin D receptor (VDR)`s ligand binding domain (LBD) as a capture mol...
Learn how the new Thermo Scientific LabLink xL quality assurance solution turns routine QC into an exciting, automated, simple process with fast troubleshooting, peer compariso...
Animal models have provided an important tool to help make the decision to take potential therapies from preclinical studies to humans. In the past several years, the strong reliance of the p...
Animal studies performed on behalf of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) are expected to uphold the core principles established by Corporate Policy 403, ‘Care, Welfare and Treatment of Animals by GS...
Quality animal research is based on quality animal care and use. This is achieved by coordinating several key personnel and activities, and implementing appropriate animal care and use proced...
DATE: December 9, 2015
TIME: 8am Pacific, 11am Eastern
Pharmaceutical product quality, effectiveness and shelf life depends significantly on the water content in these products, which mak...
Appropriate dosing of pharmaceuticals is critical to prevent sub-therapeutic efficacy or the occurrence of adverse events. However, genetic variability may significantly influence an individu...