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With recent emergences in new infectious diseases and their variants, there is a need to develop faster and more specific analytical tools to detect different respiratory infectious diseases...
Due to the rapid emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, molecular diagnostic technologies have expanded significantly. Although several diagnostic approaches were developed, real-time reverse tr...
Date: November 09, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST), 6:00pm (CET) Hemoglobin A1c is used clinically as a biomarker for the diagnosis and management of diabetes mellitus. Various method...
In this session, researchers, clinicians, and program implementers from four countries will address the disruption in continuity of care for PLHIV amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the conseque...
Date: November 09, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 5:00pm (CET) The field of cell and gene therapy is rapidly growing. In particular, the use of lentiviruses in CAR-T applications is...
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is a novel virus that causes COVID-19 and has considerable variability in clinical outcomes among infected patients. The GENCOV stu...
The next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have led to shifting paradigms for hereditary cancers genetic testing. With the increasing sensitivity of new technologies and the reduction...
The World Health Organization (WHO) classified monkeypox as a zoonosis, that is, a disease that is transmitted from animals to humans. Since early May 2022, many instances of monkeypox have...
In spite of significant progress in disease diagnosis and treatment, racial and ethnic minorities experience lower quality of care and poorer outcomes for certain conditions than non-minorit...
Cancer is a heterogeneous but related group of diseases wherein cells in certain tissues of the body proliferate uncontrollably and eventually invade adjacent and distant tissues. The oldest...
Inflammatory myopathies are a group of rare diseases that are characterized by progressive muscle weakness due to chronic skeletal muscle inflammation. Classification of these rare diseases...
Each year, more monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are approved by regulatory agencies to treat a wide range of diseases with an expected market value of over $200 billion by 2026. The advantage o...
Rapid genomic surveillance of pathogens can provide valuable insights, in order to guide public health interventions. Novel workflows using nanopore technology enables for real-time sequenci...
Date: November 9, 2021 Time: 3:00am (PDT), 6:00am (EDT), 12:00pm (CEST) An increasing number of cervical cancer screening programs are converting from cytology to primary HPV-based organiz...
Date: November 08, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST), 5:00pm (CEST) While flow cytometry shines by its flexibility, it requires a high level of expertise in antibody panel development,...
Date: November 8, 2022 Time: 1:00pm (SGT), 12:00pm (EST), 6:00am (CET) Antibodies are vital tools in many of the laboratory techniques that are used...
Date: November 3, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 11:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Join this webinar to learn more about the new X9™ real-time PCR system from Standard BioTools™. Microflu...
Date: November 3, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) In this webinar, our speakers will provide an introduction into the epidemiology of influenza A/B, RSV, COVID-19, Aden...
Date: October 13, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) Most known immune checkpoints exert their effects upon protein-protein interactions, such as the PD1 checkpoint on CD...
Genome engineers can leverage an ever-expanding array of biological and computational tools to make targeted genetic changes. Maintaining and optimizing components ranging from reagent desig...
As we further understand the complexity and diversity of cellular states, it is becoming necessary for a cellular engineering toolbox, consisting of molecular tools that allow control over c...
Nucleic acid analysis is crucial for the diagnostics of infectious diseases such as COVID-19. CRISPR/Cas technology, beyond its broad application in gene editing, features, in this regard, a...
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)–CRISPR-associated protein 13 (Cas13) has been rapidly developed for nucleic-acid-based diagnostics by using its chara...
Date: November 2, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00pm (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) As part of the immune response, inflammation plays a vital role in the host defense and is dictated by the balance bet...
The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) genome-editing revolution established the beginning of a new era in life sciences. I will report the role of state-of-th...
The Cas9 from Francisella novicida (FnCas9) has unique properties of target identification and engagement in terms of specificity, nature of double strand break as well as length of guide RN...