Assay Development: one of the first steps in drug development and toxicity testing is creating test systems on which to evaluate the effects of chemical compounds on cellular, molecular or biochemical processes of interest.
DATE: June 27, 2018TIME: 08:00AM PDT CRISPR-Cas9 is a very versatile tool to discover more about your pathway or gene of interest. Its simplicity has led to an explosion in a...
Date: June 26, 2018Time: 6:00 a.m. PDT, 9:00 a.m. EDT, 1500 CEST Today’s hematology analyzers employ various methods for enumerating platelets. These methods include: e...
Precision medicine based on molecular profiling is moving from the realm of clinical utility studies towards standard of care. There remain, however, significant technological and implementat...
DATE: June 20, 2018TIME: 07:00AM PDT, 10:00AM EDTIntroducing GE’s New Lyo-StableTM service. Sepsis is one of the top challenges facing hospitals in terms of clinical outcomes...
DATE: June 5, 2018TIME: 06:30AM PDT, 3:30PM CEST Viscous liquids are a challenge in every lab that deals with them. Depending on how viscous a liquid is, pipetting is either...
Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed an advanced assay to qualify FBS for use with ESCs. This assay is designed to sustain undifferentiated ES cells while maintaining karyotype integr...
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...
I will discuss three novel technologies that our laboratory has developed in recent years. In the first part of the talk, I will describe our work on engineering variants of the RNA-guided en...
The next step towards more biomimetic in vitro models is the design of multi-organ devices, which allow for communication of different tissue types. Combining physiologically relevant organ m...
Cell-based assays are more biologically relevant than biochemical assays yet significantly more scalable than in vivo experiments. However, care must be taken in sample preparation to e...
Over the years high throughput screening has evolved from monolithic static systems to modular more dynamic platforms. At NCATS the approach taken has been to optimize our existing lega...
This talk will reflect on what we can expect from the lab of the future and explore avenues towards such a digital lab. A major component of a digital lab is integration of instruments, syste...
Synthetic biology is a new set of tools and techniques for engineering biology. Its earliest applications were in biotech-related fields like medicine and agriculture, but today it’s be...
AstraZeneca has an ambition to create a porous organisation, seamlessly collaborating with external partners. This desire has led to the establishment of the AstraZeneca-MRC UK Centre for Lea...
NSD2 catalyzes the mono- and di-methylation of the e-amine of lysine 36 from histone H3, utilizing the methyl donor S-adenosyl-L-methionine. Increased catalytic activity of NSD2, either by ov...
In this webinar Automation Meets Cell Separation as we will discuss the benefits of automating cell isolation processes in laboratories of variable size and sample throughput, and go into det...
Growing living human cells in vitro for basic research, drug discovery and reparative/regenerative medicine is challenged by the difficulty in developing methods for reproducibly and cost eff...
The pharmaceutical industry’s productivity crisis is well known with >90% of drug candidates failing in clinical testing, primarily due to unexpected toxicity or lack of efficacy. &n...
Recent advances in immuno-oncology research has proven the critical role of immune cells in cancer therapy. Deep understanding of the interaction and phenotype of immune and tumor cells withi...
Recent advances in immuno-oncology research has proven the critical role of immune cells in cancer therapy. Deep understanding of the interaction and phenotype of immune and tumor cells withi...
DATE: May 22, 2018TIME: 08:00AM PDT The nuclear receptors pregnane X receptor (PXR) and constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) are closely related transcription factors that...
There is increasing evidence that intracellular miRNAs play a role in the pathogenesis of many complex disease phenotypes. In addition, extracellular miRNAs in exosomes are emerging as...
Gene expression studies give a snapshot of the different types of RNAs being expressed at a given time point in cells or tissues in vivo. Different RNA types have different roles, for example...
DATE: June 27, 2018TIME: 08:00AM PDT CRISPR-Cas9 is a very versatile tool to discover more about your pathway or gene of interest. Its simplicity has led to an explosion in a...
Date: June 26, 2018Time: 6:00 a.m. PDT, 9:00 a.m. EDT, 1500 CEST Today’s hematology analyzers employ various methods for enumerating platelets. These methods include: e...
Precision medicine based on molecular profiling is moving from the realm of clinical utility studies towards standard of care. There remain, however, significant technological and implementat...
DATE: June 20, 2018TIME: 07:00AM PDT, 10:00AM EDTIntroducing GE’s New Lyo-StableTM service. Sepsis is one of the top challenges facing hospitals in terms of clinical outcomes...
DATE: June 5, 2018TIME: 06:30AM PDT, 3:30PM CEST Viscous liquids are a challenge in every lab that deals with them. Depending on how viscous a liquid is, pipetting is either...
Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed an advanced assay to qualify FBS for use with ESCs. This assay is designed to sustain undifferentiated ES cells while maintaining karyotype integr...
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...
I will discuss three novel technologies that our laboratory has developed in recent years. In the first part of the talk, I will describe our work on engineering variants of the RNA-guided en...
The next step towards more biomimetic in vitro models is the design of multi-organ devices, which allow for communication of different tissue types. Combining physiologically relevant organ m...
Cell-based assays are more biologically relevant than biochemical assays yet significantly more scalable than in vivo experiments. However, care must be taken in sample preparation to e...
Over the years high throughput screening has evolved from monolithic static systems to modular more dynamic platforms. At NCATS the approach taken has been to optimize our existing lega...
This talk will reflect on what we can expect from the lab of the future and explore avenues towards such a digital lab. A major component of a digital lab is integration of instruments, syste...
Synthetic biology is a new set of tools and techniques for engineering biology. Its earliest applications were in biotech-related fields like medicine and agriculture, but today it’s be...
AstraZeneca has an ambition to create a porous organisation, seamlessly collaborating with external partners. This desire has led to the establishment of the AstraZeneca-MRC UK Centre for Lea...
NSD2 catalyzes the mono- and di-methylation of the e-amine of lysine 36 from histone H3, utilizing the methyl donor S-adenosyl-L-methionine. Increased catalytic activity of NSD2, either by ov...
In this webinar Automation Meets Cell Separation as we will discuss the benefits of automating cell isolation processes in laboratories of variable size and sample throughput, and go into det...
Growing living human cells in vitro for basic research, drug discovery and reparative/regenerative medicine is challenged by the difficulty in developing methods for reproducibly and cost eff...
The pharmaceutical industry’s productivity crisis is well known with >90% of drug candidates failing in clinical testing, primarily due to unexpected toxicity or lack of efficacy. &n...
Recent advances in immuno-oncology research has proven the critical role of immune cells in cancer therapy. Deep understanding of the interaction and phenotype of immune and tumor cells withi...
Recent advances in immuno-oncology research has proven the critical role of immune cells in cancer therapy. Deep understanding of the interaction and phenotype of immune and tumor cells withi...
DATE: May 22, 2018TIME: 08:00AM PDT The nuclear receptors pregnane X receptor (PXR) and constitutive androstane receptor (CAR) are closely related transcription factors that...
There is increasing evidence that intracellular miRNAs play a role in the pathogenesis of many complex disease phenotypes. In addition, extracellular miRNAs in exosomes are emerging as...
Gene expression studies give a snapshot of the different types of RNAs being expressed at a given time point in cells or tissues in vivo. Different RNA types have different roles, for example...