Quality Assurance: is a way of preventing mistakes and defects in manufactured products and avoiding problems when delivering products or services to customers; which ISO 9000 defines as "part of quality management focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled".
This session will look at the common issues that can impact quality in the coagulation laboratory and result outcomes. Implementing a good quality management system and being able to co...
Screening for Down syndrome began with the question "How old will you be when you deliver?". If the pregnant woman answered 35 years of age or older, she was offered amniocent...
The integration of next-generation sequencing (NGS) tests into clinical laboratory practice across medical disciplines provides medically actionable data that in some cases are not otherwise...
Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) emerged in the United States around 2000. Initially, synthetic cannabinoids and stimulants prevailed. Now, designer opioids, benzodiazepines an...
DATE: October 26, 2017TIME: 12:00 PM PDTThis presentation will focus on recent advances in cellular therapy—from mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) to tumor-specific T-cells. More s...
DATE: June 14, 2017TIME: 6:00am PT, 9:00am ET, 3:00pm CETComprehensive metabolite profiling (i.e., metabolomics) offers a holistic approach for understanding the phenotype of an organis...
The Instrumentation Group at the BC Cancer Agency’s Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) is unusual in having an engineering group and extensive prototyping facilities embedded in a biomedical...
Those that fund and publish scientific data are actively proposing or requiring strategies to improve research conduct in the hopes of improving research outcomes and scientific deliverables....
In spite of the huge potential impact of microbiome science, current measurement capabilities are insufficient, particularly for translating discoveries and correlations observed in the lab i...
DATE: April 5, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETThis presentation will focus on the use of Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry as an alternative technology for measuring thyroid...
Challenges in achieving comparability, reproducibility and accuracy in biological assays has driven a demand for improved confidence in measurements that support development of regenerative m...
DATE: February 9, 2017TIME: 10:30am PT, 1:30pm ETDuring the last 50 years the claims for continuous development and training of laboratory animal staff has been progressively devel...
We describe a novel method to measure 1,25(OH)2D. Briefly, this method was built on four pillars: (1) the nuclear vitamin D receptor (VDR)`s ligand binding domain (LBD) as a capture mol...
Learn how the new Thermo Scientific LabLink xL quality assurance solution turns routine QC into an exciting, automated, simple process with fast troubleshooting, peer compariso...
Animal models have provided an important tool to help make the decision to take potential therapies from preclinical studies to humans. In the past several years, the strong reliance of the p...
Animal studies performed on behalf of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) are expected to uphold the core principles established by Corporate Policy 403, ‘Care, Welfare and Treatment of Animals by GS...
Quality animal research is based on quality animal care and use. This is achieved by coordinating several key personnel and activities, and implementing appropriate animal care and use proced...
DATE: December 9, 2015
TIME: 8am Pacific, 11am Eastern
Pharmaceutical product quality, effectiveness and shelf life depends significantly on the water content in these products, which mak...
Appropriate dosing of pharmaceuticals is critical to prevent sub-therapeutic efficacy or the occurrence of adverse events. However, genetic variability may significantly influence an individu...
The 95% failure rate of anticancer therapeutic being approved after positive Phase III trials suggests that existing pre-clinical approaches and tools are inadequate predictors of clinical ou...
Is your lab constantly challenged by case back log while trying to validate new methods to identify designer drugs? Your challenge is common to many forensic toxicology labs around the world....
Nanotechnology, the engineering and manufacture of materials at the atomic and molecular scale, is used at BIND Therapeutics to develop novel Accurinâ„¢ nanomedicines that utilize cytotoxic age...
Over the past twenty years there has been an accelerated attack on the use of preservatives in cosmetics. This increased scrutiny of preservatives has forced cosmetic companies to change thei...
Appropriate utilization of laboratory testing is important for the quality and safety in the healthcare system and to assist in the control of unnecessary costs in the healthcare system. Per...
This session will look at the common issues that can impact quality in the coagulation laboratory and result outcomes. Implementing a good quality management system and being able to co...
Screening for Down syndrome began with the question "How old will you be when you deliver?". If the pregnant woman answered 35 years of age or older, she was offered amniocent...
The integration of next-generation sequencing (NGS) tests into clinical laboratory practice across medical disciplines provides medically actionable data that in some cases are not otherwise...
Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) emerged in the United States around 2000. Initially, synthetic cannabinoids and stimulants prevailed. Now, designer opioids, benzodiazepines an...
DATE: October 26, 2017TIME: 12:00 PM PDTThis presentation will focus on recent advances in cellular therapy—from mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) to tumor-specific T-cells. More s...
DATE: June 14, 2017TIME: 6:00am PT, 9:00am ET, 3:00pm CETComprehensive metabolite profiling (i.e., metabolomics) offers a holistic approach for understanding the phenotype of an organis...
The Instrumentation Group at the BC Cancer Agency’s Genome Sciences Centre (GSC) is unusual in having an engineering group and extensive prototyping facilities embedded in a biomedical...
Those that fund and publish scientific data are actively proposing or requiring strategies to improve research conduct in the hopes of improving research outcomes and scientific deliverables....
In spite of the huge potential impact of microbiome science, current measurement capabilities are insufficient, particularly for translating discoveries and correlations observed in the lab i...
DATE: April 5, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETThis presentation will focus on the use of Inductively-Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry as an alternative technology for measuring thyroid...
Challenges in achieving comparability, reproducibility and accuracy in biological assays has driven a demand for improved confidence in measurements that support development of regenerative m...
DATE: February 9, 2017TIME: 10:30am PT, 1:30pm ETDuring the last 50 years the claims for continuous development and training of laboratory animal staff has been progressively devel...
We describe a novel method to measure 1,25(OH)2D. Briefly, this method was built on four pillars: (1) the nuclear vitamin D receptor (VDR)`s ligand binding domain (LBD) as a capture mol...
Learn how the new Thermo Scientific LabLink xL quality assurance solution turns routine QC into an exciting, automated, simple process with fast troubleshooting, peer compariso...
Animal models have provided an important tool to help make the decision to take potential therapies from preclinical studies to humans. In the past several years, the strong reliance of the p...
Animal studies performed on behalf of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) are expected to uphold the core principles established by Corporate Policy 403, ‘Care, Welfare and Treatment of Animals by GS...
Quality animal research is based on quality animal care and use. This is achieved by coordinating several key personnel and activities, and implementing appropriate animal care and use proced...
DATE: December 9, 2015
TIME: 8am Pacific, 11am Eastern
Pharmaceutical product quality, effectiveness and shelf life depends significantly on the water content in these products, which mak...
Appropriate dosing of pharmaceuticals is critical to prevent sub-therapeutic efficacy or the occurrence of adverse events. However, genetic variability may significantly influence an individu...
The 95% failure rate of anticancer therapeutic being approved after positive Phase III trials suggests that existing pre-clinical approaches and tools are inadequate predictors of clinical ou...
Is your lab constantly challenged by case back log while trying to validate new methods to identify designer drugs? Your challenge is common to many forensic toxicology labs around the world....
Nanotechnology, the engineering and manufacture of materials at the atomic and molecular scale, is used at BIND Therapeutics to develop novel Accurinâ„¢ nanomedicines that utilize cytotoxic age...
Over the past twenty years there has been an accelerated attack on the use of preservatives in cosmetics. This increased scrutiny of preservatives has forced cosmetic companies to change thei...
Appropriate utilization of laboratory testing is important for the quality and safety in the healthcare system and to assist in the control of unnecessary costs in the healthcare system. Per...