Wastewater samples are challenging substrates for nucleic acid extraction, and choice of extraction method will determine the success of downstream analysis. Extraction methods must be able...
Since the initial COVID-19 outbreak, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has mutated, resulting in a range of variants. SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, exemplified most recently with Omicron, need to be de...
A hypoxic tumour microenvironment is a feature of solid tumours. Many tumour types contain high fractions of hypoxic tissue. The relationship between high levels of tumour hypoxia and a poor...
Rapid screening and speed of scale-up in protein therapeutics are critical factors in today’s biotech and pharma workflows. The ability to swiftly develop novel therapies often depends...
Esophageal adenocarcinoma [EAC] is the fastest growing in incidence cancer in the US over the last 25 years, while also having a 5 year survival of less than 20%. Barrett’s Esophagus [...
Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss the potential for newborn screening by whole genome sequencing. 2. Review the current evidence for the sensitivity and specificity of newborn screening by who...
Pathogen detection and surveillance have become a high priority in both healthcare and environmental settings for the safety of patients and the general public. The COVID-19 pandemic highlig...
Learning Objectives: 1. Explain what is gene therapy is. 2. Explain what steps are involved for getting a gene therapy product to the clinic. 3. Discuss development and manufacturing process...
Date: March 31, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CET) Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues are the most widely used clinical sample types in histology and molecular...
Princess Margaret Living Biobank (PMLB) is a repository for patient-derived organoid models. PMLB has generated over200 organoid models from lung, pancreas, colon, ovary, esophageal and brea...
Date: January 13, 2022 Time: 09:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) Recently, the Infectious Disease Society of America released guidance on how to approach treatment of infections caused by multidrug...
Date: November 15, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT) Targeted sequencing of respiratory viruses’ genomes is important to identify novel viral variants. Compared to amplicon sequenc...
Date: November 10, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PST), 9:00am (EST) Over the last 20 years, automated capillary electrophoresis (CE) has become an industry-preferred technique for quantitative purity a...
Date: November 2, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) Tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacteria are an alarming and ongoing global issue which requires fast and innovative diagn...
RNA plays important and diverse roles in biology, but molecular tools to manipulate and measure RNA are limited. We demonstrate that RNA-targeting CRISPR effector Cas13 and novel RNA targeti...
Date: June 16, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has become an important example of precision medicine among solid tumor malignancies. Next-generation...
Date: June 8, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Most deaths from ovarian and endometrial cancer are due to high-grade subtypes that metastasize before they are detectable by available...
Pharmacogenomics has had rapid implementation over the past decade, with recent growth in application in oncology, mental health, solid organ transplantation, and more. There has been much f...
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...
The ability of single-cell RNA-Seq (scRNA-Seq) to measure the transcriptional basis of heterogeneity between individual cells is transforming biomedical research. It enables the precise &lsq...
Dr. Jordan RoseFigura from Swift Biosciences will present on the technology created to enable this research that covers 99.7 % of the SARS-CoV-2 genome from limited viral titers. Including a...
Two studies on the immunology of COVID-19 are included in this webinar: First, Eugenia Ong, PhD with the Viral Research and Experimental Medicine Centre @ SingHealth Duke-NUS (ViREMiCS) and...
Wastewater samples are challenging substrates for nucleic acid extraction, and choice of extraction method will determine the success of downstream analysis. Extraction methods must be able...
Since the initial COVID-19 outbreak, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has mutated, resulting in a range of variants. SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern, exemplified most recently with Omicron, need to be de...
A hypoxic tumour microenvironment is a feature of solid tumours. Many tumour types contain high fractions of hypoxic tissue. The relationship between high levels of tumour hypoxia and a poor...
Rapid screening and speed of scale-up in protein therapeutics are critical factors in today’s biotech and pharma workflows. The ability to swiftly develop novel therapies often depends...
Esophageal adenocarcinoma [EAC] is the fastest growing in incidence cancer in the US over the last 25 years, while also having a 5 year survival of less than 20%. Barrett’s Esophagus [...
Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss the potential for newborn screening by whole genome sequencing. 2. Review the current evidence for the sensitivity and specificity of newborn screening by who...
Pathogen detection and surveillance have become a high priority in both healthcare and environmental settings for the safety of patients and the general public. The COVID-19 pandemic highlig...
Learning Objectives: 1. Explain what is gene therapy is. 2. Explain what steps are involved for getting a gene therapy product to the clinic. 3. Discuss development and manufacturing process...
Date: March 31, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CET) Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissues are the most widely used clinical sample types in histology and molecular...
Princess Margaret Living Biobank (PMLB) is a repository for patient-derived organoid models. PMLB has generated over200 organoid models from lung, pancreas, colon, ovary, esophageal and brea...
Date: January 13, 2022 Time: 09:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) Recently, the Infectious Disease Society of America released guidance on how to approach treatment of infections caused by multidrug...
Date: November 15, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT) Targeted sequencing of respiratory viruses’ genomes is important to identify novel viral variants. Compared to amplicon sequenc...
Date: November 10, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PST), 9:00am (EST) Over the last 20 years, automated capillary electrophoresis (CE) has become an industry-preferred technique for quantitative purity a...
Date: November 2, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) Tuberculosis and nontuberculous mycobacteria are an alarming and ongoing global issue which requires fast and innovative diagn...
RNA plays important and diverse roles in biology, but molecular tools to manipulate and measure RNA are limited. We demonstrate that RNA-targeting CRISPR effector Cas13 and novel RNA targeti...
Date: June 16, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT) Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has become an important example of precision medicine among solid tumor malignancies. Next-generation...
Date: June 8, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Most deaths from ovarian and endometrial cancer are due to high-grade subtypes that metastasize before they are detectable by available...
Pharmacogenomics has had rapid implementation over the past decade, with recent growth in application in oncology, mental health, solid organ transplantation, and more. There has been much f...
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...
The ability of single-cell RNA-Seq (scRNA-Seq) to measure the transcriptional basis of heterogeneity between individual cells is transforming biomedical research. It enables the precise &lsq...
Dr. Jordan RoseFigura from Swift Biosciences will present on the technology created to enable this research that covers 99.7 % of the SARS-CoV-2 genome from limited viral titers. Including a...
Two studies on the immunology of COVID-19 are included in this webinar: First, Eugenia Ong, PhD with the Viral Research and Experimental Medicine Centre @ SingHealth Duke-NUS (ViREMiCS) and...
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