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Blood Culture
Blood culture is a diagnostic test that checks for pathogens (e.g., bacteria, yeast) in the blood which can result from having a blood infection that can affect the entire body. A blood sample is taken from the patient and grown in broth media for bacteria to grow and be analyzed.
JAN 29, 2019 | 9:00 AM
DATE: January 29. 2019TIME: 09:00am PST, 12:00pm EST In healthy tissue, a reservoir of stem cells gives rise to non-stem cells while simul...
DEC 06, 2018 | 9:00 AM
DATE: December 6, 2018TIME: 9:00am PST, 12:00pm EST Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) intended for translational applications need to be of...
DEC 05, 2018 | 8:00 PM
DATE: December 05, 2018TIME: 08:00 PSTWhat is desperately needed are methods to detect cells that cause metastasis–known as cancer stem cells (CSC), a subpopulation of...
DEC 05, 2018 | 7:00 AM
DATE: December 05, 2018TIME: 07:00 PSTWhat is desperately needed are methods to detect cells that cause metastasis–known as cancer stem cells (CSC), a subpopulation of...
NOV 14, 2018 | 7:30 AM
As the diagnostic test menu has increased in size and complexity, healthcare providers are in great need of advice on appropriate test selection and result interpretation. To address this nee...
NOV 14, 2018 | 6:00 AM
Sepsis is the Achilles’ heel of health care. Despite being relatively unknown to the public, it is a top killer in hospitals and the cost burden is crushing to our healthcare system. Mo...
NOV 13, 2018 | 9:00 AM
DATE: November 13, 2018TIME: 9:00am PST, 12:00pm ESTExtracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell-secreted nanoparticles that play a pivotal role in intercellular communic...
OCT 11, 2018 | 1:30 PM
As the most common female malignancy, breast cancer is the most likely reason that a woman will die of cancer around the world. Breast cancer mortality has dropped in the U.S. by 35% since 19...
OCT 11, 2018 | 12:00 PM
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Large-scale sequencing studies have revealed the complex genomic landscape of NSCLC and genomic differences between lun...
OCT 11, 2018 | 10:30 AM
Two projects looking at novel approaches to targeting inflammatory breast cancer will be presented. Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a unique, understudied, and most lethal subtype account...
OCT 11, 2018 | 9:00 AM
The oncogenic transcription factor c-MYC (MYC) is deregulated, and often overexpressed, in more than 50% of cancers. MYC deregulation is associated with poor prognosis and aggressive disease,...
OCT 11, 2018 | 7:30 AM
In the past two decades a small number of infrequently dividing cells have been proposed as the source of multi-drug resistance during cancer treatment. These cells identified by their expres...
