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ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. A-myo-trophic comes from the Greek language. "A" means no. "Myo" refers to muscle, and "Trophic" means nourishment - "No muscle nourishment."
FEB 27, 2019 | 12:00 PM
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,...
FEB 27, 2019 | 12:00 PM
NanoMIPs, often called “plastic antibodies”, are made using a proprietary self-assembly process where the template molecule is incubated with monomers, each of which is free in so...
FEB 27, 2019 | 10:30 AM
Over the past 25 years surgically dependent animal models have expanded from a small, almost niche area in pharmaceutical research to an important component of most research portfolios. In t...
FEB 27, 2019 | 10:30 AM
An aptamer (also known as a synthetic antibody) is a stable DNA, RNA, or peptide ligand that binds with high affinity and specificity to targets such as small molecules, peptides, proteins, b...
FEB 27, 2019 | 8:00 AM
DATE: February 27, 2019TIME: 8:00am PST Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) can form any tissue or cell in the body, and are the ideal starting material to manufacture...
FEB 27, 2019 | 7:30 AM
Second harmonic generation (SHG) is a biophysical method that sensitively measures real-time conformational change of biomolecules attached to membranes. SHG has recently been applied to dete...
FEB 26, 2019 | 11:00 AM
DATE: February 26, 2019TIME: 11:00am PST, 2:00pm EST Osteosarcoma is the most common type of primary bone cancer affecting adolescents and children attributed to...
FEB 26, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: February 26, 2019TIME: 9:00am PST, 12:00pm EST In an era of increasingly high-throughput, large-scale biology, with companies, government and non-prof...
FEB 14, 2019 | 1:30 PM
Pharmaceutical research and development efforts are often both inefficient and suffer from a high attrition rate of drug candidates within the clinical phase of development. Most drug t...
FEB 14, 2019 | 9:00 AM
Experimental models that promise to replace animal tests that are currently required for drugs and chemicals are rapidly proliferating. This includes a number of novel solutions offered by bi...
