Health: as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." This definition has been subject to controversy, as it may have limited value for implementation. Health may be defined as the ability to adapt and manage physical, mental and social challenges throughout life.
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Date: December 08, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PST), 1:00pm (EST) In an effort to contain the spread of multidrug resistant nosocomial infections with Candida auris ( C. auris ), the BayCare Laborat...
Date: December 7, 2021 Time: 11:30am (IST), 2:00pm (SGT), 3:00pm (KST), 4:00pm (AEST)...
Date: November 30, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) The prevalence of thyroid disease worldwide has served as a catalyst for healthcare providers to study various tools and methods to...
Date: November 17, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) From waste disposal to promising biomarkers and therapeutic agents, exosomes and other extracellular vesicles are valuable in resear...
Date: November 15, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT) Targeted sequencing of respiratory viruses’ genomes is important to identify novel viral variants. Compared to amplicon sequenc...
Date: November 09, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 02:00pm (EDT) Clinical translation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) requires advanced strategies that ensure safe and robust long-term gro...
Date: November 4, 2021 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Rapid, reliable, and accurate identification of an infective organisms has a profound impact on treatment management and clinical out...
Date: September 16, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) High-dimensional flow cytometry generates a wealth of data. Computational approaches can help to simplify the complexity of large d...
Date: October 27, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) The COVID-19 pandemic has brought global awareness to the dangers of emerging pathogens to human health and welfare. Common molecular...
Date: October 26, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT), 3:00pm (CEST) With the IR Biotyper®, Dr. Markus Meyer will introduce the audience into the world of FT-IR (Fourier Transform Infr...
Date: October 20, 2021 Time:10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) As the prevalence of Diabetes continues to rise in many areas across the globe, healthcare providers continue to look for methods that...
Date: October 14, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 5:00pm GMT Western blot analysis is a method widely used in the lab today because of its versatility in detecting and measuring spe...
The risk of mortality from COVID-19 follows a sharp age gradient, with older populations facing a thousand fold higher risk of death upon infection than children. At the same time, the COVID...
Vaccination and infection are two different paths to immunity. Understanding human immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 RNA vaccines is of interest for a panoply of reasons. mRNA vaccines have dem...
Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss the value of infectious disease diagnostics. 2. Recognize the importance of home diagnostics. 3. Identify how better diagnostics leads to more resiliency to p...
Since late 2020, several prominent SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern have emerged, harboring specific mutations which increase viral transmissibility Delta variant) and which appear to reduce t...
This presentation “SARS-CoV-2 Related Workflow and Solutions: Detection and Genotyping” will focus on strategies for the testing and detection of SARS-CoV-2, including multiplexe...