Discover the latest gadgets and prototypes, and learn how awe-inspiring advances in science and technology relate to health and medicine, molecular biology, or diagnostics in these webinars. These innovations and technologies are shaping the future and changing the world.
Protein production is a multi-billion dollar industry, with applications in pharmaceuticals, industrial enzyme use (eg in laundry detergent), and biomaterials. Bacteria are receiving renewed...
Our lab has developed a novel platform for droplet sorting that can be used to sort enzymes by activity, and cells by metabolism. It is a passive technique that utilizes no excitation laser,...
We have developed an electronic method to screen cells for their phenotypic profile, which we call Node-Pore Sensing (NPS). NPS involves using a four-terminal measurement to measure the modu...
Immune cell therapies hold tremendous potential in the treatment of cancer. Among immune cells, natural killer (NK) cells have a powerful innate ability to recognize and eliminate tumor cell...
Self-removing tags can be used for simple and effective purification of recombinant proteins and peptides. The key component of these tags is an intein, which is a protein element with the a...
As the use of engineered cells for the production of numerous research and clinical applications increases, the need to monitor multiple markers representing the stability and quality of the...
Preclinical research and development are the cornerstone of modern drug discovery. A variety of biological systems including in vitro, 3D cultures, and organoids are essential tools, with ul...
Validation of computerised systems is a regulatory requirement for both GMP and GLP laboratories. Although computerised system validation (CSV) has been required for over 40 years, the appro...
The integration of scientific instruments and robotics is often a barrier for physical scientists developing new autonomous discovery capabilities. At Argonne National Laboratory, the Rapid...
High-resolution, 3D imaging enabled depth filters, chromatography columns and sterile filters to be analysed across multiple length scales. Generating a geometry-based database enabled struc...
Brian Uzzi presents two studies on innovation in science. Study one examines conditions favoring the generation of innovative, high impact ideas and study two examines the conditions that ef...
mRNA vaccines represent a pivotal innovation in prophylactic healthcare, offering a rapid response to emerging infectious diseases. Leveraging the cellular machinery to produce antigenic pro...
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...
In the MIT Media Lab global synthetic biology course ‘How To Grow (Almost) Anything,’ students from MIT, Harvard, and a global classroom of hundreds learn concepts and skills at...
This talk will focus on the essential steps needed to prepare for integrated lab automation: we will discuss the suitability of your lab for automation beyond liquid handlers, the informatio...
As workflow efficiency and data reproducibility are common challenges faced by scientists for high throughput laboratories, GenScript has developed unique automation technologies to address ...
Automated solutions for NGS library prep are powerful alternatives to lengthy, labor-intensive sample preparation workflows—but adopting and managing these systems can be a long, compl...
This talk will focus on doing method validation work in an environment where data is gathered from laboratory information system and chromatography data system. We’ll see how these sys...
The 21st century brought with it an unprecedented number of global and regional economic and political crises, giving rise to a new generation of conflicts in which novel technological, biol...
This session provides an introduction to the MiSeq i100 Series, the simplest, fastest benchtop sequencer. Giving a brief overview of the revolutionary technology that's been built into the n...
Invitrogen ProcartaPlex and QuantiGene Plex assays offer the unique ability of a multi-omics high-throughput approach by utilizing the Luminex platform. Genomic and proteomic workflows can b...
Nanoparticle mRNA Therapeutics has been the focus of intense research driven by the safety profile and several clinical breakthroughs. As of March 2024, there are two mRNA vaccines approved...
Nanovials are emerging as an accessible platform for performing single-cell functional screening leveraging standard instrumentation, such as flow cytometers and microfluidic single-cell seq...
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) are a powerful tool for innovative approaches, such as drug discovery, in vitro disease modelling, or regenerative therapies. However, such proc...
Traditionally, imaging workflows required significant manual interaction and time investment from the user. The addition of automation has decreased user time commitment and increased data o...
Cultured mammalian cells, particularly Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are widely used in the biotechnology industry for production of a wide range of therapeutics, predominantly monoclona...
Protein production is a multi-billion dollar industry, with applications in pharmaceuticals, industrial enzyme use (eg in laundry detergent), and biomaterials. Bacteria are receiving renewed...
