In a clinical laboratory, tests are done on patient specimens, such as blood, biopsies, and other bodily fluids, to gather information regarding the general health, aiding in diagnosis and potential treatment or disease prevention.
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Date: May 6, 2021 Time: 7:00am PDT, 10:00am EDT, 4:00pm CEST Eukaryotic cell cultures respond to the most subtle influence. Apart from the risk of contamination, minimal changes in cultivati...
Cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide. In 2018, there were 18.1 million new cases and 9.5 million cancer-related deaths worldwide. With the advancement of next generation seq...
Date: April 28, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Learn how the leading food, juice and beverage producer in Mexico, Jugos del Valle, simplified and sped up their lab work and improved...
DATE: April 28, 2021 TIME: 08am PST Shakers and bioreactors are established versatile systems for cultivating microorganism, plant, and animal cells in suspension. Both methods aim at increa...
Date: April 27, 2021 Time: 08:00am (PDT) The versatility of CRISPR-Cas9 has expanded the available toolset of gene editing systems for life scientists. However, these experiments require det...
Date: April 27, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT) Visualization is an important step to address complex biological questions in vivo. The imaging process can widen the perspective of an...
(Adapted from a DPYD verification document written by Hannah Stevens, Trainee Clinical Scientist) 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) and capecitabine are fluoropyrimidine chemotherapies that are used to...
Date: April 22, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) The clinical lab is a collection of numerous complex workflows. It is imperative that not only specimens are protected from contaminati...
As NGS panels grow, test interpretation becomes more complex and time-consuming / With the explosion of NGS data, the need for consolidated databases with reliable and transparent curation a...
Date: April 22, 2021 Time: 10:00am (CEST), 4:00pm (CST) Advancements in technologies have revolutionized the genetic landscape. Chromosomal microarray analysis (CMA) becomes a proven method...
Learning Objectives: 1. Identify different kinds of genomic resources 2. Learn to apply the features available in genomic resources to cancer variant interpretation 3. Describe the importanc...
Laboratory implementation of clinical genomics in children requires customization of analytical tools tailored to profile the divergent mutational landscape in childhood tumors. The relative...