Biomedical applications are used to design medical devices and therapeutics. Appling principles of technology and engineering to living things, advances can be made to improve human health and quality of life.
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At UC Davis we have implemented rapid, inexpensive, high throughput testing for SARS-Cov-2 using technology repurposed from the agricultural biotechnology sector. As part of Healthy Davis To...
Demand for high-value biologics, a rapidly growing pipeline, and pressure from competition, time-to-market and regulators, necessitate novel biomanufacturing approaches, including Quality by...
Date: March 31, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Knockdown studies are prevalent and powerful ways to illustrate gene function. CRISPRi delivers a new mechanism for gene knockdown, PAM...
Date: March 31, 2021 Time: 08:00am PST CytoFLEX SRT has enabled researcher lead self-service sorting. The need for a cell sorting expert to setup and maintain the sorter status is now necess...
Date: March 24, 2021 Time: 08:00am PDT The liver is responsible for many metabolic, endocrine and exocrine functions. Approximately 2 million deaths per year are associated with liver failur...
Date: March 18, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00am (EST) As novel therapeutic modalities progress through development, improved analytical techniques are required to overcome characterization...
Date: March 17, 2021 Time: 08:00am (PST) Research focused on SARS-CoV-2 has become a primary focus in genomic and molecular biology fields. With a constantly changing field with new methods...
Date: March 16, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PST) Scientific progress and breakthroughs today are often too expensive for most institutions to acquire. Each year, the National Institutes of Health (N...
Date: March 11, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) g the toxicity profile of a compound is a necessity across industries and the various stages of drug development. Early stage mechanism...
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are among the most intensively studied drug targets, and account for about ~34% of all drugs approved by the FDA. Examples of drugs targeting GPCRs includ...
DATE: February 24, 2021 TIME: 10am PST Automated lab instruments such as liquid handlers and cell sorters are increasingly common in all types of laboratories, driving fast results for labor...
Date: February 24, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PST) Nucleotide variants can cause functional changes by altering protein–RNA binding in various ways that are not easy to predict. This can affec...
As pharmaceutical companies have reduced or eliminated neuroscience drug development due to high costs and low approval rates, the economic and healthcare burden of CNS disorders in the Unit...
Remarkable progress in life science and technology in the past century has advanced our fundamental understanding of the human body beyond our imagination. The ever-increasing knowledge of h...