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Host Genetics
Host genetics refers to the genetics of a person, in the context of how the host genetics may effect pathogenicity of a disease or virus. It has been argued that a person's, or population's, genetics can influence a pathogen and its characteristics as it passes through the system.
SEP 08, 2016 | 7:30 AM
Our speaker, Wenjie Xu, Ph.D., will present his publication data demonstrating how nCounter® technology can advance your infectious disease research faster and more accurately with unprec...
MAY 31, 2016 | 7:00 AM
DATE: May 31, 2016
TIME: 7am Pacific time, 10am Easter time, 4pm Central European Summer time
Pipetting is an every-day task in a cell culture lab. We pipette so often that we...
FEB 24, 2016 | 3:00 PM
The greatest health epidemic of our time is cancer. Deaths from cancer worldwide outnumber the combined deaths from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria by a wide margin. There are at least 100...
OCT 26, 2015 | 11:00 PM
Please note that Oct. 26, 11pm PDT means following time in Europe and Asia: Oct. 27, 07am CET, 2pm China Standard Time, 3pm JPTSubstances leaching out of plastic consumables – so-...
JUN 03, 2015 | 8:00 AM
The live event will start at 8am PDT, 11am EDT, 5pm CEST, 11pm CST.Substances leaching out of plastic consumables – so-called “leachables” – are still frequently under...
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...
AUG 20, 2014 | 10:45 AM
A recent publication in Nature Genetics1 analyzed TCGA data, and classified solid tumors into two mutually exclusive classes: C class tumors, driven by copy number alterations; and M class tu...
AUG 20, 2014 | 8:00 AM
One of the hallmarks of human cancers is genetic instability. My colleagues and I recently identified a remarkable association between human papillomavirus (HPV) and genomic structural variat...
MAR 20, 2014 | 10:00 AM
Neuroimaging plays a large role in our pursuit of the understanding of behavior and cognition in health and disease. The past decade has seen the emergence of a wealth of resources that suppo...
OCT 17, 2013 | 7:00 AM
Whenever there is cell death, apoptotic cell free DNA fragments appear in the circulation of the host. These fragments, typically 145-160 base pairs in size, represent a minute fraction of to...
AUG 21, 2013 | 12:00 PM
Whenever there is cell death, apoptotic cell free DNA fragments appear in the circulation of the host. These fragments, typically 145-160 base pairs in size, represent a minute fraction of to...
AUG 21, 2013 | 10:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
In the United States, invasive aspergillosis (IA), an invasive fungal infection of the upper respiratory tract of immune compromised patients, is usually caused by Aspergilus fumigatus, while...
MAY 10, 2013 | 9:00 AM
 Measurement of renin and its activity is increasingly used in the evaluation of circulatory function. This is primarily driven by a higher than previously realized prevalence of primary hype...