Learn about the latest medical breakthroughs by participating in webinars on topics surrounding disease, prevention and treatment in accordance with the latest research in health and medicine. Updates encompass a biological, psychological and sociological understanding of health.
The ongoing surge of clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 viruses in avian species has resulted in numerous spillover events into mammalian species including dairy cows and humans, posing a potential pandemi...
Apolipoprotein E epsilon 4 (APOE4) is the primary genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD). APOE4 carriers, especially females, tend to develop gut dysbiosis earlier t...
Candida auris is a serious emerging public health threat due to its multi-drug resistance and the ability to spread in healthcare facilities. In addition, it is challenging and time consumin...
Curious about how engineered polymerases are transforming the landscape of infectious disease diagnostics? Our speaker, Dr. Maja Studencka-Turski, will guide you through a comprehensive disc...
In the rapidly expanding landscape of molecular diagnostics, the focus is shifting from top to bottom, with a redirection from post-pandemic respiratory testing to developments in gastrointe...
The global demand for point-of-care testing (POCT) for diagnosing infectious diseases is growing. Bringing the test directly to the person needing the result greatly reduces the turn-around-...
Infectious diseases have been a major threat to human health throughout history, causing significant economic damage worldwide. In modern medicine, quickly and accurately identifying the ger...
1) Microscope slides and coverglass are used in many parts of the lab while knowledge of how these items are made and the technical properties they have is limited. 2) By not understanding t...
Blood Cultures are the gold standard test for Sepsis diagnosis and an essential first step in infectious organism identification. Improving its quality is critical to the outcomes for a pati...
Neural organoids derived from patient-specific iPSC lines can help open doors toward studying human brain development, physiology, and disease progression. The increased cell-cell interacti...
Spatial transcriptomics offers a revolutionary approach to understanding the tumor microenvironment (TME) in solid tumors by preserving the spatial context of gene expression, which is cruci...
Recently, the American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC), now Association of Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM), in collaboration with the American Diabetes Association (ADA...
Thyroid abnormalities affect a considerable portion of the population. Globally, there is a large population of people who have undiagnosed thyroid dysfunction or are at risk of developing i...
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a ubiquitous infection and congenital CMV (cCMV) infection is the most common non-genetic cause of hearing loss in infants and children. However, most pregnant women...
Fine needle aspiration (FNA) plays a vital role in the evaluation of patients with thyroid nodules, in terms of distinguishing benign, non-neoplastic thyroid nodules that may be conservative...
Histology laboratorians in the research world move fast, but those who perform cryosectioning know that these particular tissues require lighting speed and precision. Cryosectioning is the a...
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading global infectious disease killer, second only to COVID-191. It is an airborne disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria and is responsible for...
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and is second most common cause of cancer deaths. Importantly, the annual rates of prostate cancer incidence continue to rise. This session w...
Effective control of the spread of HIV depends on using the right antiretroviral drugs. In 2019, the World Health Organization recommended using the integrase inhibitor, dolutegravir (DTG),...
Laboratories use the same laboratory equipment they invested in for COVID testing to perform PGx testing. With COVID testing reimbursement dropping, many laboratorians are considering implem...
Women experience a variety of unique sexual health issues that are often under appreciated by the general public and even by healthcare providers. Compared to other populations, cisgender wo...
The last 20 years have seen an explosion of genetic information and data. New technological advances have made it faster and less expensive to understand the human genomes but most of those...
Comprehending the mechanism behind human diseases with an established heritable component represents the forefront of personalized medicine. Nevertheless, numerous medically important genes...
The Genomes2People Research Program (G2P), led by Robert Green at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Broad Institute, Ariadne Labs, and Harvard Medical School, conducts research to acce...
Tandem repeats are hard to assess but important regions on the human genome. There are around 200 pathogenic and phenotypic tandem repeats, which are often ignored by standard analysis. Furt...
This talk will explore the integration of genomics with electronic health records (EHRs) in biobanks, emphasizing its potential to enhance women's health research. We'll delve into h...
RNA is dynamic and essential to biological functions. Metatransrciptome captures gene expression (RNAs) of all active microbes in an environment. We care not just 'who is there', but...
The ongoing surge of clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 viruses in avian species has resulted in numerous spillover events into mammalian species including dairy cows and humans, posing a potential pandemi...
