Radiation: is the emission of energy as electromagnetic waves or as moving subatomic particles, especially high-energy particles which cause ionization. In physics, radiation is the emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or through a material medium.
Stimulation of human visual cortex is known to elicit visual perceptions that could potentially be used for restoring artificial vision to individuals who have lost their vision due to non-co...
What motivates patients to participate in clinical trials? Discussions most often revolve around potential study participants’ perception of therapeutic benefit. Misconceptions about th...
Surgery is the first line of treatment for Stage III melanoma. Often adjuvant therapy is administered post-surgery, which can include weeks of radiation, chemotherapy, targeted drug therapy,...
DATE: November 20, 2018TIME: 07:00 PSTSince its original development (2008) COLD-PCR has been used by several groups for increasing the sensitivity of mutation detection in di...
DATE: June 7, 2018TIME: 07:00AM PDT, 4:00PM CESTIn this webinar, Prof. Greetje Vande Velde will give an overview of her work, which involves lung and brain infections. Dr Vande Ve...
DATE: February 22, 2018TIME: 09:00am PST, 12:00pm EST, 06:00pm CEST(Europe)Colorectal cancer (CRC) develops during a multi-step process from small lesions of the intestinal epithelium....
DATE: November 29, 2017TIME: 10:00 AM PSTThe three human RAS genes (HRAS, KRAS and NRAS) encode four highly related RAS small GTPases (HRAS, KRAS4A, KRAS4B and NRAS). RAS proteins funct...
Despite the fact that screening for many cancers is associated with net harm, healthcare consumers continue to be screened. PSA is the most commonly performed laboratory screening test for ca...
The “R2G2” (B6;129-Rag2tm1FwaIL2rgtm1Rsky/DwlHsd) knockout mouse is the latest advancement to provide an alternative option in the highly immunodeficient mouse model category for...
DATE: September 28, 2017TIME: 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDT The use of gene therapy is well studied due to its potential to treat cancer, the second leading cause of death worldwide....
Vitamin D3 supplementation can effectively remedy the current epidemic of vitamin D deficiency, especially within the African-American population and the elderly of any ethnicity. Racial disp...
DATE: August 24th 2016TIME: 8:00AM PST, 11:00AM ESTPreclinical micro-computed tomography (microCT) imaging systems are utilized across a wide range of applications requiring imagi...
There is no debating that a storm is approaching in our industry and it will have long lasting impacts on NPS, our customers and the patients we all work to serve. We all take these changes a...
Imaging-based techniques have traditionally been restricted to the diagnosis and staging of cancer. But technological advances are moving imaging modalities into the heart of patient care. Im...
Detection of rare mutations is required for reliable identification of mutations in liquid biopsies and heterogeneous tumors. Yet low-level mutation detection remains a technically challengin...
The management of prostate cancer (PCa) continues to evolve and does so at a rapid rate. Research and technological developments continue to refine our definitions and management of this comp...
Germline cancer genetics became a reality with the cloning of the tumor suppressor gene RB1 for hereditary retinoblastoma in 1986 by Friend and Weinberg. The existence of cancer susceptibili...
Since the discovery and maturing of in vitro techniques that characterized neurotransmitter receptor systems in animal and human brain and subsequent development of in vitro and in vivo autor...
Female cancer patients in the reproductive years face a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures which pose teratogenic hazards to an unexpected pregnancy. Ionizing radiation, diagnos...
Human malignant glioma is a uniformly fatal disease, causing over 14,000 deaths in the US this year. Adults diagnosed with malignant brain tumors have a median survival of approximately 15 mo...
The modern era of Precision Medicine requires targeted delivery of molecular inhibitors that control key processes in disease pathways. PARP (Poly ADP Ribose Polymerase) plays a crucial role...
Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with cancer, the contribution to risk of these variants is small, rende...
Stimulation of human visual cortex is known to elicit visual perceptions that could potentially be used for restoring artificial vision to individuals who have lost their vision due to non-co...
What motivates patients to participate in clinical trials? Discussions most often revolve around potential study participants’ perception of therapeutic benefit. Misconceptions about th...
Surgery is the first line of treatment for Stage III melanoma. Often adjuvant therapy is administered post-surgery, which can include weeks of radiation, chemotherapy, targeted drug therapy,...
DATE: November 20, 2018TIME: 07:00 PSTSince its original development (2008) COLD-PCR has been used by several groups for increasing the sensitivity of mutation detection in di...
DATE: June 7, 2018TIME: 07:00AM PDT, 4:00PM CESTIn this webinar, Prof. Greetje Vande Velde will give an overview of her work, which involves lung and brain infections. Dr Vande Ve...
DATE: February 22, 2018TIME: 09:00am PST, 12:00pm EST, 06:00pm CEST(Europe)Colorectal cancer (CRC) develops during a multi-step process from small lesions of the intestinal epithelium....
DATE: November 29, 2017TIME: 10:00 AM PSTThe three human RAS genes (HRAS, KRAS and NRAS) encode four highly related RAS small GTPases (HRAS, KRAS4A, KRAS4B and NRAS). RAS proteins funct...
Despite the fact that screening for many cancers is associated with net harm, healthcare consumers continue to be screened. PSA is the most commonly performed laboratory screening test for ca...
The “R2G2” (B6;129-Rag2tm1FwaIL2rgtm1Rsky/DwlHsd) knockout mouse is the latest advancement to provide an alternative option in the highly immunodeficient mouse model category for...
DATE: September 28, 2017TIME: 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDT The use of gene therapy is well studied due to its potential to treat cancer, the second leading cause of death worldwide....
Vitamin D3 supplementation can effectively remedy the current epidemic of vitamin D deficiency, especially within the African-American population and the elderly of any ethnicity. Racial disp...
DATE: August 24th 2016TIME: 8:00AM PST, 11:00AM ESTPreclinical micro-computed tomography (microCT) imaging systems are utilized across a wide range of applications requiring imagi...
There is no debating that a storm is approaching in our industry and it will have long lasting impacts on NPS, our customers and the patients we all work to serve. We all take these changes a...
Imaging-based techniques have traditionally been restricted to the diagnosis and staging of cancer. But technological advances are moving imaging modalities into the heart of patient care. Im...
Detection of rare mutations is required for reliable identification of mutations in liquid biopsies and heterogeneous tumors. Yet low-level mutation detection remains a technically challengin...
The management of prostate cancer (PCa) continues to evolve and does so at a rapid rate. Research and technological developments continue to refine our definitions and management of this comp...
Germline cancer genetics became a reality with the cloning of the tumor suppressor gene RB1 for hereditary retinoblastoma in 1986 by Friend and Weinberg. The existence of cancer susceptibili...
Since the discovery and maturing of in vitro techniques that characterized neurotransmitter receptor systems in animal and human brain and subsequent development of in vitro and in vivo autor...
Female cancer patients in the reproductive years face a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures which pose teratogenic hazards to an unexpected pregnancy. Ionizing radiation, diagnos...
Human malignant glioma is a uniformly fatal disease, causing over 14,000 deaths in the US this year. Adults diagnosed with malignant brain tumors have a median survival of approximately 15 mo...
The modern era of Precision Medicine requires targeted delivery of molecular inhibitors that control key processes in disease pathways. PARP (Poly ADP Ribose Polymerase) plays a crucial role...
Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with cancer, the contribution to risk of these variants is small, rende...