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Clinical Laboratory
In a clinical laboratory, tests are done on patient specimens, such as blood, biopsies, and other bodily fluids, to gather information regarding the general health, aiding in diagnosis and potential treatment or disease prevention.
OCT 30, 2014 | 3:00 PM
Mass spectrometry (MS)-based profiling of clinical specimens has been increasingly used in cancer research to characterize changes in protein expression between tumor and healthy tissue or be...
OCT 30, 2014 | 12:00 PM
Although the incidence of breast cancer is steadily increasing, mortality rates are decreasing. This means that the majority of women with breast cancer now survive, making it even more impor...
OCT 30, 2014 | 12:00 PM
Female cancer patients in the reproductive years face a variety of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures which pose teratogenic hazards to an unexpected pregnancy. Ionizing radiation, diagnos...
OCT 30, 2014 | 9:00 AM
Hyper and Hypoparathyroid disease states are often latent with a multiplicity of manifestations ranging from asymptomatic state to obvious symptoms and complications such as fatigue...
OCT 30, 2014 | 6:00 AM
When the BCR/ABL1 fusion protein was identified in chronic myelogenous leukemia and the JAK2 V617F mutation was identified in patients with other myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) such as p...
OCT 29, 2014 | 3:00 PM
Survival rates for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remain unacceptably low compared to other common solid tumors. This mortality reflects a weakness in conventional staging, as...
OCT 29, 2014 | 3:00 PM
Over the last decade we have witnessed tremendous advances in our understanding of the underlying molecular alterations in human cancer. This has stimulated excitement for our ability to deve...
OCT 29, 2014 | 1:30 PM
Human malignant glioma is a uniformly fatal disease, causing over 14,000 deaths in the US this year. Adults diagnosed with malignant brain tumors have a median survival of approximately 15 mo...
OCT 29, 2014 | 12:00 PM
DNASTAR offers an integrated suite of software for assembling and analyzing sequence data from all major next-generation sequencing platforms. The software supports a variety of key workflows...
OCT 29, 2014 | 7:30 AM
The effective implementation of personalised cancer therapeutic regimens depends on the successful identification and translation of informative biomarkers to aid clinical decision-making. An...
OCT 24, 2014 | 12:00 PM
  Influenza is a major clinical and public health issue. Rapid, accurate diagnostics for influenza have the potential to improve the efficacy of therapy, limit antibiotic over-use, conserve ...
SEP 25, 2014 | 8:00 AM
This webinar presents LC-MS workflows for cost-effective research and forensic laboratory operation. The workflows, enabled by simple sample preparation coupled with rapid analysis ...
SEP 24, 2014 | 11:00 AM
This presentation will focus on NuMediis general approach towards the discovery of new therapeutic uses for existing drugs. While the business models for repurposing marketed drugs versus rep...
SEP 24, 2014 | 8:00 AM
Antibiotics are among the most important advances in the history of modern medicine. They turned often acutely fatal infections into treatable indications with radical cures. Antibiotics co...
SEP 10, 2014 | 7:00 AM
Colloidal nanoparticles have become important materials in biomedicine, catalysis, and optoelectronics. Their unique nanoscale properties stem from their size (particularly of the i...
AUG 21, 2014 | 8:45 AM
With advances in next-generation sequencing, whole-exome and genome sequencing (WGES) is now accessible as a tool in many applications. In the clinical setting, WGES is proving to be very val...
AUG 21, 2014 | 8:45 AM
Gene therapy for two forms of inherited retinal degeneration have met promising safety and efficacy endpoints in early stage clinical trials. These approaches made use of a replication defect...
