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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.
JUL 07, 2020 | 9:00 AM
DATE: July 07, 2020 TIME: 9:00 am PDT The widely used TNM staging system is poorly predictive of response to adjuvant chemotherapy in Stage II and III colon cancer. As a result, there is ove...
JUL 02, 2020 | 1:30 PM
Shantanu will be providing an overview about how predictive genomics is a powerful capability to help predict disease risk and understand drug response in order to improve health outcomes an...
JUL 01, 2020 | 8:00 AM
DATE: July 1, 2020 TIME: 8:00 am PDT, 11:00 am EDT In late 2019, researchers identified the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen as the virus responsible for COVID-19. The virus spread rapidly throughout the...
JUL 01, 2020 | 12:45 PM
NGS is still perceived as a complex, hard to implement and validate method that requires highly experienced people. Outsourcing next-generation sequencing (NGS) testing could be an option to...
JUL 01, 2020 | 12:15 PM
Here I review the applications of Ion Torrent NGS technology in the field of microbiome research and some recent publications about it. With Ion Torrent 16S rRNA next generation sequencing,...
JUN 30, 2020 | 9:00 AM
DATE: June 30, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT QC laboratories perform a critical role in demonstrating pharmaceutical products are consistently manufactured, safe, potent, and pure. At t...
JUN 22, 2020 | 7:00 AM
DATE: June 22, 2020 TIME: 7:00am PT, 10:00am ET This is the first topic in the webinar series on ‘Predictive Genomics for Improved Health Outcomes’. A major challenge for healthc...
JUN 18, 2020 | 9:00 AM
DATE: June 18, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDT Despite the success of immunotherapy against several malignancies including melanoma and lung adenocarcinoma, glioblastoma remains the excep...
JUN 17, 2020 | 4:30 PM
Accelerated development of mRNA-based vaccine has necessitated the transformation of standard, research grade in vitro transcription reagents into raw material specifically designed and manu...
JUN 17, 2020 | 4:30 PM
The fast spread of SARS-Cov-2 sparked much interest in understanding the underlying genomics of this 30,000bp Coronavirus. Thus far, thousands of genome assemblies are available, yet they fe...
JUN 17, 2020 | 3:00 PM
Analysis of antigen- and virus-specific T cells is essential to the understanding of fundamental immunological processes in the contexts of e.g. infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, as well...
JUN 17, 2020 | 3:00 PM
Bringing a new research surgical model into production is always a challenging endeavor, and it has become much more challenging with the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic. The virus’...
