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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With the advent of cost effective culturing approaches, 3D cell culture models (3D-CCMs) have been rapidly adopted for drug discovery since they provide a more physiologically relevant micro-...
DATE: August 9, 2018TIME: 8:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT Current exon-level arrays and NGS techniques for CNV detection are plagued with a high number of false-positive...
DATE: August 8, 2018TIME: 8:00AM PT, 11:00AM ETAntiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is an autoimmune acquired thrombophilic disorder which is diagnosed based on clinical and labor...
DATE: August 7, 2018TIME: 08:00AM PDT, 11:00AM EDTWe are currently at an exciting precipice in clinical oncology management, where an increased rate of biomarker identification is drivi...
DATE: June 29, 2018TIME: 8:00AM PDTMeasurement of these metabolites represents the digital readout of health. A key aspect of metabolomics is the utilization of high resolu...
Date: June 26, 2018Time: 6:00 a.m. PDT, 9:00 a.m. EDT, 1500 CEST Today’s hematology analyzers employ various methods for enumerating platelets. These methods include: e...
Advances in DNA sequencing, based upon massively parallel sequencing, has resulted in dramatic advances in DNA sequence output in the past few years. It is now possible to generate terrabases...
The introduction of targeted therapies into the clinical management of lung adenocarcinoma has had a massive impact on patient care. Multiple driver mutations are now druggable and treatments...
Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis also known as inflammatory bowel diseases or IBD, are characterized by chronic, recurrent inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, which result...
With nearly 9 million covered lives serviced through over 150 medical centers, the VA is one of the largest, unified Healthcare System within the United States. Embedded within this system is...
Precision medicine based on molecular profiling is moving from the realm of clinical utility studies towards standard of care. There remain, however, significant technological and implementat...