The Labroots Microbiology & Immunology Virtual Event Series 2017 is now On Demand! Join us in bringing the Microbiology research community together online in discovering new concepts,...
The human large intestine houses trillions of microorganisms which collectively form the highly diverse microbial community known as the gut microbiota. The gut microbiota performs many funct...
Quinolones are one the most commonly prescribed classes of antibacterials in the world and are used to treat a broad variety of Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacterial infections in humans....
INTRODUCTION: The recent coincidental emergence of the human microbiota and the Hologneomic Theory of Co-evolution unmasked the “Dual Citizenship” of symbiotic microbes and...
A rapidly growing number of viruses of lower eukaryotes have been reported in the past few decades. These have enhanced our understanding of virus evolution and diversity. Simultaneously, som...
The global threat of antimicrobial resistance has been recognized by the World Health Organization, the United Nations and many other expert bodies. The burden of resistant pathogens is immen...
Clostridium difficile is a major pathogen responsible for infectious diarrhea in healthcare settings. This presentation will review the data from a study comparing the new Simplexa® C. di...
Background: In March 2014, a molecular cluster of five multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis was detected by the Austrian National Reference Laboratory. An investigation was initiate...
Rob Dunn has recently published Never Out of Season, the story of the homogenization of our global food supply and the risks that homogenization poses. He will build on the stories from this...
DATE: September 13, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET As part of BD’s commitment to increased awareness to the health and financial burden associated with Sepsis,...
The immune system is complex and dynamic, focused on defending the body from a host of pathogens ranging from viruses to cancer. A number of different mechanisms have evolved that help the bo...
Virus – host interactions are currently among the most intensively studied research areas due to the promising new antiviral approaches emerging from these studies. Indeed, RNA viruses,...
Increasing prevalence and severity of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections has necessitated novel antibacterial strategies. Ideally, new approaches would target bacterial pat...
Prokaryotes have long been at war with bacteriophage. The evolutionary pressure of this struggle has led both sides to develop sophisticated defenses. Notably, CRISPR-Cas systems evolved to l...
Adjunct probiotic therapy has the potential to decrease Clostridium difficile disease incidence and severity. After screening several potential probiotic bacteria for intrinsic resistance to...
DATE: September 13, 2017 TIME: 9:00AM SGT 12:00PM AEDTORDATE: September 12, 2017TIME: 6:00PM PDT To transform the promises of cell-based therapies int...
DATE: September 7, 2017TIME: 9:00AM PT, 12:00PM ETThe success of immune checkpoint blockade adds a new therapeutic category to the cancer therapy repertoire. Despite efforts made on can...
DATE: September 6, 2017TIME: 9:00AM PST, 12:00PM ET The era of using extracellular vesicles (EVs) and exosomes for regenerative medicine applications in the clinic is here. We...
DATE: August 30, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETRecent studies show that cancer cells can resist treatment by changing into a different cell type. Many treatments for specific cancers,...
DATE: August 29th, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET Antibodies are frequently produced from a cell line that has been screened to ensure the protein is expressed with th...
DATE: August 24, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETTestosterone is a steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics, but it is also synthesized i...
DATE: August 22, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ETThe use of CRISPR-Cas9 to create targeted double-strand breaks in genomic DNA has greatly simplified strategies for precise gen...
DATE: August 2, 2017TIME: 10:00AM HKTORDATE: August 1, 2017TIME: 6:00PM PT, 7:00PM MT 폐쇄된 자동 세포 배양 프로세스의 사용을 통한 T-세포 확장, 바이러스 벡터 생산 및 중간엽줄기세포(MSC)의 확장 생산에 대한 식견 갖기....
DATE: July 27, 2017TIME: 9:00AM PT, 11:00AM CT, 12:00PM ETDo you have inconsistent results freeze drying samples? Are some of your samples too challenging? Is your freeze dry cycle taki...
DATE: July 21, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETCRISPR/Cas9 techniques are quickly growing in popularity for the generation of new mouse models for research. Though the approach is relati...
DATE: July 20, 2017TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET, 5:00pm CESTNeurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are clinically and etiologically highly heterogeneous and are characterized by a...
DATE: July 13, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ETAlmost 1.5 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes every year. In 2012 alone, close to 10% of the population has diab...
DATE: June 29th 2017TIME: 9:00AM PDT, 11:00AM CDTIf you are involved in laboratory planning, management or safety, you need to attend this webinar. Bad information has led modern labora...