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In Vitro
In Vitro: refers to a medical test or experiment/procedure that is conducted in a laboratory within the confines of a test tube or laboratory dish. This is not to be confused with the term in vivo, which is a medical test or procedure that is performed on or in a living organism.
SEP 13, 2018 | 1:30 PM
The soil microbiome can produce, resist, or degrade antibiotics and even catabolize them. Resistance genes are widely distributed in the soil and may act as a reservoir for pathogen antibioti...
SEP 13, 2018 | 10:30 AM
The bacterium Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii causes Stewart’s wilt disease in corn and serves as a model for other xylem-dwelling phytopathogens. P. stewartii is transmitted to plan...
SEP 11, 2018 | 7:00 AM
DATE: September 11, 2018TIME: 07:00AM PDTWith increasing safety requirements, and time and financial pressure, the development of new drugs, and the execution of basic research p...
AUG 15, 2018 | 8:00 AM
DATE: August 15, 2018TIME: 08:00AM PDT, 11:00AM EDTThe failure of current chemotherapeutic strategies in the fight against cancer can be largely attributed to the occurrence of drug res...
AUG 09, 2018 | 7:00 AM
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-...
AUG 01, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are a promising source of personalized therapy. These cells can provide immune-compatible autologous replacement tissue for the treatment of potentially a...
JUL 19, 2018 | 9:00 AM
DATE: July 19, 2018TIME: 09:00am PDT Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a deadly disease with a 5 year-survival rate of approximately 6%. Despite recent...
JUN 29, 2018 | 9:00 AM
DATE: June 29, 2018TIME: 09:00AM PDT, 12:00PM EDT There is significant epidemiological evidence to suggest that the consumption of a high-broccoli diet is associated with a r...
MAY 31, 2018 | 1:30 PM
The miniaturized total chemical analysis system has been successfully repurposed over the past twenty years or so for engineering cellular microenvironments which more faithfully mimic in viv...
MAY 31, 2018 | 10:30 AM
The next step towards more biomimetic in vitro models is the design of multi-organ devices, which allow for communication of different tissue types. Combining physiologically relevant organ m...
MAY 30, 2018 | 7:30 AM
Growing living human cells in vitro for basic research, drug discovery and reparative/regenerative medicine is challenged by the difficulty in developing methods for reproducibly and cost eff...
MAY 30, 2018 | 6:00 AM
The pharmaceutical industry’s productivity crisis is well known with >90% of drug candidates failing in clinical testing, primarily due to unexpected toxicity or lack of efficacy. &n...
MAY 24, 2018 | 9:30 AM
DATE: May 24, 2018 TIME: 9:30PM PDT The current gold standard in in vitro pre-clinical cancer treatment screening remain cell lines,...
MAY 09, 2018 | 1:30 PM
C.E. CREDITS
Tumors are often categorized into standard molecular subtypes. However, largescale studies have demonstrated that patient heterogeneity in the regulatory make-up of tumors remain. At the tran...
