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 continued rapid expansion of immunotherapies, including both in vivo and ex vivo therapeutics, has driven the development and adoption of novel tools to study, asses and understand these...
This talk will review successful efforts at Washington University to employ novel reagents and informatics to the problem of rare allele detection. I will discuss a published bakeoff of in si...
Laboratory shopping is a concerning practice in the legal cannabis industry that can compromise public health and safety, create an uneven playing field for businesses, and most importantly...
While providing indispensable insight into immune processes, the live cell imaging of immune cells poses unique challenges due to their non-adherent nature. Suspension cells such as immune c...
Madin Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) cells can form a polarized epithelial layer in culture. We and others have observed that these layers are frequently characterized by extralayer cells, posit...
For more than a century, breakthroughs in biological sciences have relied on the ability to study cells outside of respective organisms. While majority of cell culturing is still performed u...
This talk provides a brief overview of funding opportunities for invasive device development for translation to clinical populations supported by the NIH BRAIN Initiative....
The biopharmaceutical industry is transitioning towards continuous biomanufacturing processes that require advanced analytical tools to monitor and control bioprocesses to produce high-quali...
In this session, researchers, clinicians, and program implementers from four countries will address the disruption in continuity of care for PLHIV amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the conseque...
From drug discovery to organoid modeling of disease, stem cells are increasingly being used in research as a vital tool for scientific investigation. Due to the specialized nature of stem ce...
CRISPR/Cas gene editing technology has rapidly evolved over the last decade. Its versatility extends from creating targeted research-use disease models in cells and animals, to high-throughp...
Last year, while experts were concerned about the “twindemic”, the flu season was virtually non-existent due to COVID-19 public health countermeasures. With COVID-19 vaccination...
Microtubule plus-end tracking proteins (+TIPs) play key roles in the regulation of microtubule dynamics in vivo. These proteins bind to and regulate microtubule “plus‐ends”, whic...
Learning Objectives: 1. Understand the regulatory requirements for clinical sample tracking. 2. Identify the pitfalls of sample tracking during the sample life cycle. 3. Understand how LIMS...
Precision oncology is revolutionizing the diagnostic and therapeutic approach to cancer. In fact, the availability of tumor-specific and tumor-agnostic biomarkers and matched therapies is ra...
In quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), multiplexing increases sample throughout, while reducing the time and cost associated with having separate reactions for each target. Furthe...
Since late 2020, several prominent SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern have emerged harboring specific mutations which increase viral transmissibility (e.g., lineage B.1.1.7), and which appear to...
Intro to high-dimensional data analysis 3:00–3:30 pm PDT Presented By: El-ad David Amir, PhD FAUST: A new interpretable machine learning approach for automated gating 3:30–4:00 p...
Ovarian cancer is a deadly disease which is usually diagnosed in advanced stages. Our goal is to develop vaccines to prevent relapse. Natural Th17 T cells protect against recurrence followin...
As one of the few evidence-based treatments shown to decrease mortality, buprenorphine use has grown in the United States and abroad. Buprenorphine is a first line option for opioid use diso...
The pre-packed disposable chromatography market is increasing rapidly. There is a growing need for manufacturing flexibility and single-use systems. You are invited to find out more about wh...
This webinar provides an interdisciplinary look at the global changes observed in the laws, standards and politics around the cannabis plant and its products. An overview will be provided on...
The purpose of the project was to provide a straightforward way to develop analytical methods for terpene analysis. Terpene analysis can be a difficult proposition and having a basic underst...
Advances in genetic engineering have improved specificity, safety and potency of T-cell receptor (TCR) and Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR-T) based therapies for solid and non-solid tumours....
Immune checkpoint therapies targeting the CTLA-4 and PD-(L)1 pathways have been largely clinically disappointing for patients with prostate cancer. This can be attributed to the highly immun...
Arguably data integrity is important, very important. It is clear that with bad data, poor decisions are made, in some cases you might as well have not have any data upon which to base your...