Follow a comprehensive curation of novel and significant discoveries in the fields of genetics and genomics by watching these webinars. Highlighted areas of interest in the fields of genetics and genomics include epigenetics, molecular genetics, hereditary disease, clinical genetics, population genetics, etc.
Advancements in protein and gene therapy research have led to more complex modalities being developed. In addition, the desire for a deeper understanding of these molecules enhances the need...
Prompt and early diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) is important to enable appropriate treatment and help prevent further transmission. Clinical testing labs require STI tes...
Join us for an introduction to the Deepcell Platform, an instrument that combines advances in high-resolution imaging, deep learning foundation models to illuminate morphology in all its dim...
Date: May 31, 2023 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CET) Single-cell genomics has facilitated the understanding of mechanisms involved in various biological processes such as tumor...
Although metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) is increasingly used in clinical microbiological diagnosis, especially for rare or complicated infectious diseases, the applications of...
Recent advances in multi-omic approaches, including genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics, enable a more comprehensive description of the tumor. This promises to accelerate the developme...
Characterization of rare cells remains a major challenge for the evaluation and understanding of key biological systems, such as circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from liquid biopsy, stem cells...
Infectious gastroenteritis is a disease caused by bacterial, viral, and parasitic pathogens in which the small and/or large intestines become severely inflamed. Because infectious gastroenter...
For infectious disease pathogen detection and research, real-time PCR enables reliable, sensitive, specific, and scalable results over slower culture-based methods...
The personalized treatment of each cancer patient with targeted therapies selected based on our understanding of the molecular biology of cancer has been the long-standing goal of......
The defining characteristic of Companion Diagnostics (CDx) is that their use is associated with selection of a therapy or other medical intervention....
Many oncology patients do not receive the most effective targeted treatments because of challenges associated with implementation of a personalized medicine approach. Despite a lengthy histo...
Genomics has had rapid implementation over the past decade, with recent growth in application in oncology, mental health, maternal fetal medicine, solid organ transplantation, and more. Much...
Learning Objectives: 1. Describe alternative (non-B) DNA structures, how prevalent are they and what are their biological implications? 2. Explain why non-B DNA structures might be relevant...
Experience the Revolution of DNA Polymerase Technology: Choosing the Best DNA Polymerase for Efficient PCR Workflows. PCR has revolutionized modern molecular biology, but its success would n...
The Genomes2People Research Program (G2P), led by Robert Green at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the Broad Institute, Ariadne Labs, and Harvard Medical School, conducts research to acce...
The last 20 years have seen an explosion of genetic information and data. New technological advances have made it faster and less expensive to understand the human genomes but most of those...
In the field of oncology, the ability to select cells from a specific location or region within a tissue and analyze each discrete genome allows for the understanding of tumor heterogeneity....
Approximately 13% of the human genome at certain motifs have the potential to form non-canonical (non-B) DNA structures (e.g. G-quadruplexes, cruciforms, and Z-DNA), which regulate......
With the health economic benefits of genetic testing clear, testing is becoming more accessible, which means constantly increasing throughput requirements for already stretched genomics......
Long-read sequencing was declared the method of the year for 2022 and, indeed, has fully arrived on the computational biology scene. Specifically, Oxford Nanopore Sequencing technology has e...
The current version of the human reference genome, GRCh38, contains a number of errors including 1.2 Mbp of falsely duplicated and 8.04 Mbp of collapsed regions. These errors impact the vari...
Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss the conceptual limitations of the term, "population" as applied to human genomics. 2. Explain the main difference(s) between "race", "...
Genomic testing based on chromosome microarray (CMA) and Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) revolutionized clinical genetics. That said, microarray, targeted panel, exome and generic whole gen...