Diagnostic microbiology concentrates on laboratory analysis of clinical specimens in cases when an infectious disease is suspected. In other words, it is the study of microbial infection.
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Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) uses a stand-displacing DNA polymerase and four to six primers to rapidly amplify DNA at a single temperature. By eliminating temperature cyclin...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) detection and surveillance is a high priority in healthcare and environmental settings for the safety of both patients and the general public. However, working...
Date: August 31, 2022 Time: 12:00pm (PDT), 3:00pm (EDT), 9:00pm (CEST) Human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for more than 99% of cervical cancers. Most HPV infections are transient an...
Date: August 24, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) has evolved rapidly since the first sequencing platforms were commercially released ne...
Date: August 16, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Physicians caring for expecting or pregnant mothers successfully manage pregnancy with the help of screening and diagno...
Date: August 10, 2022 Time: 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDT The global pandemic has increased focus and scrutiny on molecular diagnostic assay development, resulting in a need for assays that provid...
Date: July 28, 2022 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT) Hepatitis B and C continues to be a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, resulting in 1.1 million deaths and 3 million new in...
Date: July 26, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Organoids and spheroids are increasingly being used in many research applications, including drug discovery, toxicology,...
Date: July 20, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) continues to be an international public health emergency due...
Date: July 19, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Cryo-EM is rapidly becoming the method of choice for structural biologists and biochemists around the world, helping thes...
Date: June 30, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PST), 10:00am (EST), 4:00pm (CEST) Flow Cytometry is a widely used technology that enables researchers to rapidly characterize thousands of individual cells...
Date: June 21, 2022 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT), 3:00pm (CEST) The global understanding and practice of medicine is currently undergoing a revolutionary change. This shift to precision...
Date: June 15, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) One in five Americans has a sexually transmitted infection (STI) according to the 2019 STD Surveillance Report sexual hea...
Date: June 07, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) On December 8th, 2021 the CDC released new recommendations for preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for the prevention of HIV i...
Date: June 02, 2022 Time: 8:30am (PST), 10:30am (CST), 11:30am (EST) Cardiac biomarkers like high-sensitivity Troponin I might play a major role in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases....
Date: May 31, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PST), 2:00pm (EST), 8:00pm (CEST) In February of this year Minnesota became the first state in the U.S. to screen every newborn for congenital CMV. This was...
Date: May 31, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Introducing Nanostring’s latest spatial platform, CosMx Spatial Molecular Imager (SMI). Offering high-plex, multiomi...
Date: May 19, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00pm (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomic technologies are increasingly applied in a clinical context for disease classific...
Invitrogen ProcartaPlex and QuantiGene Plex assays offer the unique ability of a multi-omics high-throughput approach by utilizing the Luminex platform. Genomic and proteomic workflows can b...