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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.
AUG 22, 2013 | 2:00 PM
The role of the human genome in normal and patho-biology is crucial. Applied in cancer care and in a variety of unknown disorder settings, it can provide key insights and crucial diagnostic/p...
AUG 22, 2013 | 1:00 PM
MicroRNAs are short non-coding cellular regulators of gene expression. Each microRNA controls the expression of a large set of genes, and microRNAs collectively, may regulate more than half o...
AUG 22, 2013 | 12:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
It is widely accepted that approximately 85% of known disease-causing DNA variants affect the exons and splice junctions, which is about 1% of the whole genome. As a result, Clinical Exome Se...
AUG 22, 2013 | 10:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
The advent of massively parallel sequencing by next generation sequencing platforms now allow genomic approaches for individualizing healthcare. Genomic sequencing data reveals variants in ge...
AUG 22, 2013 | 9:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
During IVF procedures pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) allows for genetic profiling of embryos prior to replacement. Most PGD procedures during IVF are performed to select chromosomal...
AUG 22, 2013 | 7:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Anticoagulation therapy is frequently employed to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation, prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism and pulmonary embolism in patients with prosthetic...
AUG 21, 2013 | 4:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
The goal of personalized medicine is to customize healthcare to the individual patient. Pharmacogenomics, the analysis of how a patient's genetic makeup affects the individual's response to c...
AUG 21, 2013 | 2:00 PM
Increasingly genome sequence knowledge is unraveling the complexity of rare Mendelian disorders offering hope for our children's medical care through better disease diagnosis and ultimately p...
AUG 21, 2013 | 1:00 PM
Cervical cancer screening has evolved significantly since the PAP smear was introduced in 1949. In particular, the association with human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and the mechanism of H...
AUG 21, 2013 | 10:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Massively parallel sequencing technology has proven to enable the identification of driver genetic alterations in patients' tumors that may be suppressed by targeted therapies. Through retros...
AUG 21, 2013 | 8:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
As a component of individualized medicine, pharmacogenetics (PGx) focuses on how genetic factors influence individual responses to specific medications. The clinical goals of pharmacogenetics...
AUG 21, 2013 | 8:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
With the technical costs of genome sequencing continuously dropping, it is now feasible to offer this assay in a clinical context. Empirical evidence suggests that genome and exome sequencing...
AUG 21, 2013 | 6:00 AM
Genetic testing is becoming a widespread practice and with human genome fully sequenced we want to develop best methods to do it. Single gene or single mutation screening is pretty much becom...
AUG 21, 2013 | 6:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
This presentation focuses on contemporary methods for detection of monoclonal proteins (M-protiens) that are associated with multiple myeloma and other plasma cell dyscrasias. The basic princ...
AUG 15, 2013 | 9:00 AM
Recent studies show a large prevalence of Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency in populations of all ages. Concerns about excess supplementation and toxicity have emerged as a result. Th...
MAY 31, 2013 | 9:00 AM
The process of implementing molecular assays in labs can be tedious, with new labs lacking knowledge and existing labs wanting to simplify and streamline their implementation process. Our web...
MAY 30, 2013 | 12:00 PM
Development of a companion diagnostic can be critical to the success of a drug. Pharmaceutical companies are committing more and more of their efforts to discover and deliver targeted therapi...
MAY 30, 2013 | 11:00 AM
ValuMetrix Services was established in 2000 to support OCD customers in their pursuit of excellence in laboratory operations. ValuMetrix® works with customers, using the quality programs of L...
MAY 30, 2013 | 9:00 AM
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...
MAY 30, 2013 | 8:00 AM
VITROS® Microslides utilize a layered, dry-slide technology that enables separate reaction domains such that each step can be optimized to provide excellent assay performance. Excellent preci...
MAR 23, 2013 | 8:00 AM
Dr. Johannes van der Loo will cover the vital role viral vectors play in today's gene research, as well as the use of ultracentrifugation to produce these key delivery systems.
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