Discover the latest gadgets and prototypes, and learn how awe-inspiring advances in science and technology relate to health and medicine, molecular biology, or diagnostics in these webinars. These innovations and technologies are shaping the future and changing the world.
This session provides an introduction to the MiSeq i100 Series, the simplest, fastest benchtop sequencer. Giving a brief overview of the revolutionary technology that's been built into the n...
The application of modeling tools to better understand and control bioprocess development and manufacturing has become a hot topic within the last few years. However, what do we actually nee...
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...
Many commercially promising proteins are difficult-to-express (DTE) in living cells and are lost before an industrial production process can be established. Cell-free protein expression (CFP...
The miniaturized total chemical analysis system has been successfully repurposed over the past twenty years or so for engineering cellular microenvironments which more faithfully mimic in viv...
Biopharmaceutical manufacturing of proteins requires an efficient cell line. Starting with several thousand clones, researchers use multiple selection rounds to ultimately chose one clone fo...
The biopharmaceutical industry is transitioning towards continuous biomanufacturing processes that require advanced analytical tools to monitor and control bioprocesses to produce high-quali...
A hardware architecture was developed specifically to facilitate collaborative development and dissemination of microfluidic experiments. Modular pressure regulators, incubators, and chip-to-...
Point‑of‑care testing is the future of diagnostic solutions. Point‑of‑care testing is robust, easy to use, and provides immediate results and thus, allows treatment decisions to be made more...
Regulated laboratories must comply with numerous quality requirements that are put in place by regulatory agencies to ensure that accurate data is being generated and reported. The vast majo...
From gene cloning and initial clone selection through to final cell evaluation, the continual assessment of cell count and viability is important for determining the best growing and highest...
Join this year's poster presenters in the Poster Hall during the Poster Networking Hour, Wednesday, November 1st, from 10:00 AM –11:00 AM PDT , to chat live about their posters and...
DNA vaccines have emerged as a promising technology for developing COVID-19 vaccines due to their ability to be quickly designed and manufactured after obtaining the pathogen or cancer antig...
During my research career I have worked to further understanding of how intracellular organisation changes in response to the needs and environment of the living cell, focusing on the regula...
The field of gene therapy has enabled the treatment and potential cures for serious, monogenetic diseases. This form of advanced therapy relies on the delivery of the “correct” c...
Rapid, accurate and frequent detection of the RNA of SARS-CoV-2 and of serological host antibodies to the virus would facilitate the determination of the immune status of individuals who hav...
Cell and gene therapies, such as chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapies (CAR-T), have led to some miraculous cures that are transforming the clinical landscape for treating certain types...
Immune cell therapies hold tremendous potential in the treatment of cancer. Among immune cells, natural killer (NK) cells have a powerful innate ability to recognize and eliminate tumor cell...
Validation of computerised systems is a regulatory requirement for both GMP and GLP laboratories. Although computerised system validation (CSV) has been required for over 40 years, the appro...
Self-removing tags can be used for simple and effective purification of recombinant proteins and peptides. The key component of these tags is an intein, which is a protein element with the a...
Protein production is a multi-billion dollar industry, with applications in pharmaceuticals, industrial enzyme use (eg in laundry detergent), and biomaterials. Bacteria are receiving renewed...
As the use of engineered cells for the production of numerous research and clinical applications increases, the need to monitor multiple markers representing the stability and quality of the...
We have developed an electronic method to screen cells for their phenotypic profile, which we call Node-Pore Sensing (NPS). NPS involves using a four-terminal measurement to measure the modu...
Our lab has developed a novel platform for droplet sorting that can be used to sort enzymes by activity, and cells by metabolism. It is a passive technique that utilizes no excitation laser,...
The integration of scientific instruments and robotics is often a barrier for physical scientists developing new autonomous discovery capabilities. At Argonne National Laboratory, the Rapid...