Life sciences involve the study of cells, their components, and their functions. Medical Laboratory Science focuses on analysis of biological specimens such as blood, saliva, or semen. Collaborations between Laboratory Science and Life Sciences investigate the components of biological samples for a medical diagnosis or to monitor the efficacy of a treatment.
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Alzheimers disease (AD) is a common neurodegenerative disorder characterized clinically by progress decline in memory and thinking and pathologically by the presence of senile plaques and neu...
Intravascular catheterization access for injection and sampling is one of the most common experimental surgical procedures.Catheters and ports have been designed to reduce the problems of occ...
The 2011 Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals has required that institutions place importance on assuring that staff working with animals are trained and competent to perform thei...
FEB 05, 2014 | 11:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
Almost all discussion to date on the ethics of animal use in research has revolved around the balance of harms (to the animals) versus benefits (to us) associated with conducting the researc...
FEB 05, 2014 | 10:00 AM
C.E. CREDITS
An anesthesia system designed to accommodate the physiological characteristics of small animals, including rats and mice, has the potential to provide great practical value to the life scien...
The effective implementation of personalised cancer therapeutic regimens depends on the successful identification and translation of informative biomarkers to aid clinical decision making. Th...
AUG 21, 2013 | 2:00 PM
C.E. CREDITS
The human species is particularly prone to chromosome segregation errors during maternal meiosis in the egg and during post zygotic mitosis in the preimplantation embryo. In fact, aneuploidy...
Increasingly genome sequence knowledge is unraveling the complexity of rare Mendelian disorders offering hope for our children's medical care through better disease diagnosis and ultimately p...
Development of a companion diagnostic can be critical to the success of a drug. Pharmaceutical companies are committing more and more of their efforts to discover and deliver targeted therapi...
Dr. Johannes van der Loo will cover the vital role viral vectors play in today's gene research, as well as the use of ultracentrifugation to produce these key delivery systems.
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