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Neurodegenerative Disease
Neurodegenerative Diseases: are debilitating and incurable conditions that result in progressive degeneration and / or death of nerve cells. These neurodegenerative diseases affect millions of people worldwide. Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease are the most common types.
MAR 09, 2021 | 8:00 AM
Date: March 09, 2021 Time: 8:00am (PST), 11:00am (EST) Lung cancer is one of the three most common types of cancer. Representing 85% of all lung cancers...
FEB 24, 2021 | 12:00 AM
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease affecting approximately 1 in 50,000 people worldwide. About 10% of these cases are found to have a hereditary component, bu...
OCT 08, 2020 | 1:30 PM
Martin highlights various factors impacting molecular analysis from FFPE samples and key challenges and considerations while working with this precious yet challenging sample type. Learning...
SEP 30, 2020 | 12:00 AM
A repeat expansion in the C9orf72-SMCR8 complex subunit (C9orf72) represents the most common genetic cause of two fatal neurodegenerative diseases: frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrop...
SEP 23, 2020 | 1:30 PM
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are lipid bilayer-delimited pieces of cells that are released from the plasma membrane as "ectosomes" and from the endosomal system as "exosomes.&...
AUG 25, 2020 | 8:00 AM
DATE: August 25, 2020 TIME: 8:00am PDT, 10:00am CDT, 11:00am EDT Recombinant lentivirus (LV) and adeno-associated virus (AAV) are critical components of cell and gene therapies, which show g...
JUN 02, 2020 | 7:00 AM
DATE: June 2, 2020 TIME: 7:00am PT, 10:00am ET In just a few months COVID-19 has risen from a regional crisis to a global threat, and drug makers are now scrambling to develop vaccines aimed...
MAR 26, 2020 | 9:00 AM
DATE: March 26, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PST, 12:00pm EST Growing demand for precision therapy and the recent successes with CAR-T cells for cancer treatment...
MAR 18, 2020 | 6:30 AM
DATE: March 18, 2020 TIME: 6:30am PT, 9:30am ET Presentation: Chemical Imaging for Biomedicine: the Next Frontier of Light Microscopy Dr. Wei Min, Columbia University www.columbia.edu/cu/che...
MAR 11, 2020 | 1:30 PM
Neurodegenerative disease research can be considerably accelerated by using fibrillar or oligomeric constructs of prion-like proteins in in vitro or in vivo studies. These exist in a variety...
MAR 11, 2020 | 10:30 AM
The accumulation of neurotoxic amyloid beta peptides and/or neurofibrillary tangle formation are key pathological hallmarks of neurodegenerative diseases including but not limited to Alzheim...
JAN 01, 2020 | 6:00 AM
Misfolded and accumulated neurodegenerative disease associated proteins (NDAPs, such as tau and alpha-synuclein) represent the major pathological hallmark in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson&...
