Functional Assays: An assay is an analytical procedure in laboratory medicine, pharmacology, environmental biology and molecular biology for qualitatively examining or quantitatively measuring the presence, amount, or functional activity of a target entity.
DATE: November 16, 2017TIME: 9:00AM PT, 12:00PM ETThe wide use of 2D monolayer cultures for cancer drug discovery reflects the technical ease of implementation for drug screening, and t...
DATE: November 15, 2017TIME: 10:00AM PTInteractions between tumor and immune cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME) play a key role in tumor progression and treatment response, with...
DATE: November 14, 2017TIME: 09:00am PST, 12:00pm ESTThe CRISPR-Cas9 system has been adapted to upregulate any gene in its endogenous context, enabling overexpression experiments and av...
QuantiFERON TB (QFT) was the first interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) utilizing whole blood stimulation as a test for TB infection, gaining FDA approval in 2001. Subsequently there have be...
Transcriptional profiling of the tumor microenvironment can lead to insights about the interaction between the tumor and immune system. This facilitates investigation of immune evasion mechan...
The advent of next generation sequencing has transformed the way we identify mutations with clinical implications. As the compendium of variants expands, gathering the most current and accura...
Pregnancy represents a time of rapid bodily change, which include physical proportions, physiology and responsibility. Arguably, nothing during these times changes more than the requirement a...
DATE: November 1, 2017TIME: 12:00 PM PT, 3:00 PM ETThere is a current focus in biology towards developing more complex and physiologically relevant in vitro assays and cell models...
DATE: October 25, 2017TIME: 06:00am PDT, 09:00am EDTThis is the third topic in the webinar series on ‘Sanger Sequencing & Fragment Analysis made easy’.Repetitive DNA...
DATE: October 24, 2017TIME: 09:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDTDoes your work involve disease models? Do you have a need to introduce specific genomic changes in the cells of your choice? Do you w...
The detection of circulating molecular biomarkers is useful for monitoring pathogenic processes and response to therapeutic intervention1,2. In cancer, genomic and proteomic biomarkers are us...
The detection of circulating molecular biomarkers is useful for monitoring pathogenic processes and response to therapeutic intervention1,2. In cancer, genomic and proteomic biomarkers are us...
In order to expand the treatment options of cancers driven by oncogenic RAS, new cell surface targets need to be identified and characterized. Here, we describe mass spectrometry based phenot...
DATE: October 11, 2017TIME: 08:30am PDT, 10:30am CDTSince 1993, Gibco™ B-27™ Supplement and Neurobasal™ Medium has been the trusted standard for a variety of neuronal...
Traditional high throughput screening (HTS) assays for neuronal targets employ non-human primary neuronal cells due to the scale necessary for HTS. Isolation of mouse primary neurons can be u...
Contractile non-muscle cells, including smooth muscle and myoepithelial cells, provide the mechanical forces required for tissue homeostasis in numerous organ systems. For example, smooth mus...
Although the cell is commonly referred to as “the most basic unit of life”, it is actually so complex that despite over 350 years of research we are still far from fully understan...
A fundamental question in neuronal development is how growth cone cytoskeletal dynamics are coordinated to promote accurate axonal navigation. To address this question, we focus on microtubul...
DATE: September 19, 2017TIME: 10:30am PDT/ 1:30pm EDT/ 7:30pm CESTPart 1 – Cigall Kadoch, Ph.D. (30 min.)Exome- and genome-wide sequencing studies in human cancer have...
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 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...
EVENT DETAILS:DATE: July 25, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, Noon ETThermo Fisher Scientific is proud to present the SyncD3 webinar series. As a thought-leader in science...
DATE: July 20, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETPart 1 - Daniel Beacham: Case study showing how CyQUANT Direct Cell Proliferation and Fluo-4 calcium imaging assays were us...
As reprogramming methodologies have become more reliable and efficient, corresponding improvements were needed in the characterization workflow as well; specifically in terms of the speed, ef...
DATE: November 16, 2017TIME: 9:00AM PT, 12:00PM ETThe wide use of 2D monolayer cultures for cancer drug discovery reflects the technical ease of implementation for drug screening, and t...
DATE: November 15, 2017TIME: 10:00AM PTInteractions between tumor and immune cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME) play a key role in tumor progression and treatment response, with...
DATE: November 14, 2017TIME: 09:00am PST, 12:00pm ESTThe CRISPR-Cas9 system has been adapted to upregulate any gene in its endogenous context, enabling overexpression experiments and av...
QuantiFERON TB (QFT) was the first interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) utilizing whole blood stimulation as a test for TB infection, gaining FDA approval in 2001. Subsequently there have be...
Transcriptional profiling of the tumor microenvironment can lead to insights about the interaction between the tumor and immune system. This facilitates investigation of immune evasion mechan...
The advent of next generation sequencing has transformed the way we identify mutations with clinical implications. As the compendium of variants expands, gathering the most current and accura...
Pregnancy represents a time of rapid bodily change, which include physical proportions, physiology and responsibility. Arguably, nothing during these times changes more than the requirement a...
DATE: November 1, 2017TIME: 12:00 PM PT, 3:00 PM ETThere is a current focus in biology towards developing more complex and physiologically relevant in vitro assays and cell models...
DATE: October 25, 2017TIME: 06:00am PDT, 09:00am EDTThis is the third topic in the webinar series on ‘Sanger Sequencing & Fragment Analysis made easy’.Repetitive DNA...
DATE: October 24, 2017TIME: 09:00am PDT, 12:00pm EDTDoes your work involve disease models? Do you have a need to introduce specific genomic changes in the cells of your choice? Do you w...
The detection of circulating molecular biomarkers is useful for monitoring pathogenic processes and response to therapeutic intervention1,2. In cancer, genomic and proteomic biomarkers are us...
The detection of circulating molecular biomarkers is useful for monitoring pathogenic processes and response to therapeutic intervention1,2. In cancer, genomic and proteomic biomarkers are us...
In order to expand the treatment options of cancers driven by oncogenic RAS, new cell surface targets need to be identified and characterized. Here, we describe mass spectrometry based phenot...
DATE: October 11, 2017TIME: 08:30am PDT, 10:30am CDTSince 1993, Gibco™ B-27™ Supplement and Neurobasal™ Medium has been the trusted standard for a variety of neuronal...
Traditional high throughput screening (HTS) assays for neuronal targets employ non-human primary neuronal cells due to the scale necessary for HTS. Isolation of mouse primary neurons can be u...
Contractile non-muscle cells, including smooth muscle and myoepithelial cells, provide the mechanical forces required for tissue homeostasis in numerous organ systems. For example, smooth mus...
Although the cell is commonly referred to as “the most basic unit of life”, it is actually so complex that despite over 350 years of research we are still far from fully understan...
A fundamental question in neuronal development is how growth cone cytoskeletal dynamics are coordinated to promote accurate axonal navigation. To address this question, we focus on microtubul...
DATE: September 19, 2017TIME: 10:30am PDT/ 1:30pm EDT/ 7:30pm CESTPart 1 – Cigall Kadoch, Ph.D. (30 min.)Exome- and genome-wide sequencing studies in human cancer have...
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 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...
EVENT DETAILS:DATE: July 25, 2017TIME: 9:00am PT, Noon ETThermo Fisher Scientific is proud to present the SyncD3 webinar series. As a thought-leader in science...
DATE: July 20, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETPart 1 - Daniel Beacham: Case study showing how CyQUANT Direct Cell Proliferation and Fluo-4 calcium imaging assays were us...
As reprogramming methodologies have become more reliable and efficient, corresponding improvements were needed in the characterization workflow as well; specifically in terms of the speed, ef...