Immune System: is the body's defense against infectious organisms and other invaders. The immune system is made up of a network of cells, tissues, and organs that work together to protect the body.
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DATE: December 06, 2018TIME: 7:00AM PSTHigh-throughput confocal microscopy has changed the way drug screening can be performed, by enabling the detection of single-cell pheno...
DATE: December 5, 2018TIME: 9:00AM PDTThe mouse is a critical, increasingly used model system in biomedical research and preclinical drug discovery. While technological advances en...
DATE: November 29, 2018TIME: 9:00AM PDTAn overview of primary immune deficiency disorders (PID) and laboratory testing for PIDPrimary immune deficiencies (PIDs), oth...
DATE: November 28, 2018TIME: 7:00AM PSTSingle-cell genomics enables a deep dive into the mechanisms responsible for health and disease, in areas from cancer biology to neurob...
In contrast to autologous cell therapies, allogeneic therapies do not require collection of starting material from patients and could; be manufactured in larger batches, be made available &ld...
Biomedical researchers are increasingly using advanced human cell models for translational biology and therapeutic discovery studies. These include patient-specific samples, cultured micro-ti...
The success of immune checkpoint blockade adds a new therapeutic category to the cancer therapy repertoire. Despite efforts made on cancer cell and immune cell interaction, how cancer cells i...
Integrated protocols and live-cell analysis solutions for different 3D tumor modelsIn the search for greater clinical translation, cancer researchers are increasingly turning to more comp...
Deriving deeper biological insight & improving productivity in immune-cell biologyThe most common in vitro methods for immunologists to analyze cells of the immune system are flow cyt...
DATE: October 25, 2018TIME: 08:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT While the significance of the microbiome is unprecedented, a thorough study to dissect the role of individual popul...
DATE: October 23, 2018TIME: 7:00AM PDTHigh Throughput Screening for the European Lead Factory (ELF) has been performed at Pivot Park Screening Centre (PPSC). 72 HTS campaigns have...
To date the anatomic extent of tumor (TNM-classification) has been by far the most important factors to predict the prognosis of cancer patients. However, this classification provides limited...
In prior work, we have pursued how tumor reactive monoclonal antibody (mAb), together with activators of innate immune cells, like NK cells, can augment antibody dependent cell-mediated cytot...
Understanding the immune repertoire is an important aspect of immuno-oncology research, which can be used to gather insights into the function and overall status of the immune system. We have...
All forms of life require immune systems to stave off infection from viruses and other pathogens. In bacteria and archaea, clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) a...
The CRISPR-Cas9 system has proven to be a powerful tool for genome editing allowing for the precise modification of specific DNA sequences within a cell. Many efforts are currently underway t...