Genetics technology broadly describes the tools and processes used to identify, treat, or monitor genetic disorders. Genetics technology can include laboratory testing, scientific instruments, and analytical software programs.
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The lack of preparedness for detecting the highly infectious SARS-CoV-2 pathogen, the pathogen responsible for the COVID-19 disease, has caused enormous harm to public health and the economy...
Date: August 24, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) has evolved rapidly since the first sequencing platforms were commercially released ne...
DATE: August 17, 2022 TIME: 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDT Detection and/or amplification of target DNA sequences by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a prevalent method in molecular biology. PCR...
Date: August 16, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) Understanding genomic variation in the context of cancer is paramount to identifying disease drivers and informing pers...
Date: August 10, 2022 Time: 10:00am PDT, 1:00pm EDT The global pandemic has increased focus and scrutiny on molecular diagnostic assay development, resulting in a need for assays that provid...
Date: July 26, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Organoids and spheroids are increasingly being used in many research applications, including drug discovery, toxicology,...
Date: June 21, 2022 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT), 3:00pm (CEST) The global understanding and practice of medicine is currently undergoing a revolutionary change. This shift to precision...
Infectious diseases present a great challenge to global health and its economy. The 2020 SARS- CoV-2 pandemic highlighted the importance of rapid identification, characterization and surveil...
Date: June 01, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST), 6:00pm (CEST) The enumeration and analysis of blood cells with automated haematology analysers have significantly improved in recent ye...
Date: May 31, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Introducing Nanostring’s latest spatial platform, CosMx Spatial Molecular Imager (SMI). Offering high-plex, multiomi...
Date: May 26, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST), 12:00am JST The industry still relies heavily on PCR and cell-based cloning. Both are decades old methodologies. However,...
Date: May 19, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00pm (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomic technologies are increasingly applied in a clinical context for disease classific...
Cancers are genetic diseases driven by recurrent sets of somatic mutations. Different mutations associate statistically with distinct disease risks and can therefore be useful prognostic mar...
Date: May 17, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) Gene therapeutics have great potential to treat many severe diseases in an unprecedented, targeted manner. The biopharmace...
Date: May 12, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CET) The ability to move rapidly through the Design-Generate-Test-Learn (DGTL) cycle is essential for effective forward engineer...
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...
The Sarbecoviruses encodes a large panel of highly heterogeneous, but related zoonotic, epidemic and pandemic coronaviruses that include SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV2, which have been associated wit...
Diagnostics have never been more important or visible on the world stage as they are today in the midst of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Mara will speak about how COVID diagnostics have been...