Molecular Diagnostics: Molecular diagnostic tests detect specific sequences in DNA or RNA that may or may not be associated with disease, including single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), deletions, rearrangements, insertions and others. By analysing the specifics of the patient and their disease, molecular diagnostics offers the prospect of personalized medicine. These tests are useful in a range of medical specialisms, including infectious disease, oncology, human leucocyte antigen typing, coagulation, and pharmacogenomics-the genetic prediction of which drugs will work best.
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When SARS-CoV-2 reached the United States in late January 2020, Labcorp immediately began development of an RT-PCR test to aid in detection and diagnosis of COVID-19 in infected patients. As...
This presentation will focus on strategies for the design and validation of robust assays for the detection of SARS-CoV-2, including nucleic acid extraction, multiplexed qPCR assays, and int...
Several SARS-CoV-2 variants are circulating globally. The most prominent variants of concern, including the B.1.1.7, B.1.351 and B1.1.28 lineages, not only carry a constellation of genetic m...
Date: April 14, 2021 Time: 9:00am PDT Testing solutions for CoV-2 have had to evolve as the pandemic creates challenges and opportunities for various technologies to support the ongoing nee...
Developing an in vitro diagnostic device is often a complex and demanding process. Doing so in the midst of a pandemic and the IVD global supply chain stretched like never before, with proje...
DATE: April 2, 2021 TIME: 09:00am PDT There has been a major development in the serologic diagnosis of Lyme disease. All parties agree (as before) on the paradigm of “Two Tier Testing&...
Date: March 31, 2021 Time: 08:00am PST CytoFLEX SRT has enabled researcher lead self-service sorting. The need for a cell sorting expert to setup and maintain the sorter status is now necess...
Learning Objectives: Discuss Respiratory Disease State and Current Trends Overview Discuss the Alinity m Resp-4-Plex Assay Design Discuss Alinity m Resp-4-Plex Assay Clinical Performance...
Date: March 23, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) The chromatin regulators CBP and p300 maintain gene expression programs through lysine acetylation of chromatin and transcriptional reg...
Date: March 22, 2021 Time: 8:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT Viral diversity presents an ongoing challenge for diagnostic tests, which must be designed to accurately detect all current and future circ...
Date: March 16, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST) An important lesson learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is how critical the microbiology laboratory is to ensuring hospitals have surg...
DATE: February 24, 2021 TIME: 10am PST Automated lab instruments such as liquid handlers and cell sorters are increasingly common in all types of laboratories, driving fast results for labor...
Date: February 24, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PST) Nucleotide variants can cause functional changes by altering protein–RNA binding in various ways that are not easy to predict. This can affec...
Date: January 28, 2021 Time: 7:00am (PST), 10:00am (EST) Many of the newly recognized clinically significant genetic markers in pediatric leukemias cannot be reliably detected by routine dia...
Date: January 21, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PST) Abstract Learning Objectives Discuss Procalcitonin as a biomarker to help distinguish viral versus bacterial infection Review the literature suppor...
Date: December 16, 2020 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) Molecular imaging of living specimens offers a means to draw upon the growing body of high-throughput molecular data to better under...
DATE: December 15, 2020 TIME: 10:00am PST Scientists from Thermo Fisher Scientific will walk us through the world of microorganisms. They will discuss their most recent research on viruses,...
Date: December 15, 2020 Time: 5:00am (PST), 8:00am (EST), 2:00pm (CET) QIAGEN proudly presents Dr. Tanja Nikolova, a leading expert in the field of obstetrics with extensive experience in...
DATE: December 09, 2020 TIME: 09:00am PST Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) ensure homeostasis of blood throughout life. In this webinar, we share insights into the smart and easy isolation, c...
This drug development program is designed to create a family of broad-spectrum, pan-coronaviral drugs that respectively inhibit multiple key enzymes required for viral replication. By target...