Nucleic acids ( i.e., DNA and RNA) are the key macromolecules of life, composed of nucleotide monomers that consist of a 5-carbon sugar ( ribose for DNA and deoxyribose for RNA), a base (adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine, or uracil), and a phosphate group.
Massive parallel sequencing (MPS) technologies have paved the way into new areas of research including individualized medicine. However, sequencing of trace amounts of nucleic acids still rem...
Identification of the many complex genetic aberrations associated with cancers, and deciphering their role in disease progression and response to treatment is one of the major challenges face...
DATE: January 19th, 2017TIME: 8:00AM PT, 11:00AM ETLiquid biopsies have the potential to be a less invasive method than traditional biopsies to detect advanced solid tumor mutational st...
Review Tips and Techniques on how to develop your own ELISA, including: Why you would use ELISA assays Different types of ELISA assays Key reagents Quantitation using standard cur...
Sanger sequencing and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods have been the standard molecular methods in clinical diagnostics for decades. Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology r...
Tumor heterogeneity has been known for a while but quantifying heterogeneity is still a challenge. NGS is the method of choice in the analysis of tumor heterogeneity, however, there are...
DATE: September 20th, 2016TIME: 7:00AM PST, 10:00AM ETThere is a growing trend towards developing in vitro cell models that recapitulate the in vivo environment in basic research,...
Alere™ i utilizes unique isothermal nucleic acid amplification technology which does not require temperature cycling or a sample purification step. It is significantly faster than other...
The Solana GAS Assay is a rapid in vitro diagnostic test for the qualitative detection of Group A β-hemolytic Streptococcus (Streptococcus pyogenes) nucleic acids isolated from throat sw...
DATE: June 9, 2016
TIME: 9AM Pacific time, 12pm Eastern time
The rapid growth of Microbiomics has increased the demand for standard methods to improve the reproducibility and...
Self-assembling protein microarrays arrays can be used to study protein-protein interactions, protein-drug interactions, search for enzyme substrates, and as tools to search for disease bioma...
A recently discovered communication system used by cells to send messages across the human body promises to revolutionize our understanding of disease and how we treat it. Technologies based...
DATE: February 2nd, 2016
TIME: 9am pacific time, 12pm eastern time
What is the most appropriate technology to empower your research?
Next generation sequencing (NGS) for RN...
DATE: January 27th, 2016
TIME: 9am CET
Photometry is a widely used analytical method in molecular biology labs. In many applications like cloning, sequencing, or PCR, you are workin...
DATE: November 24, 2015TIME: 9am EST, 2pm GMTFor many years now, gels have been a fundamental research tool in academic research for the separation and analysis of nucleic acids and pro...
DATE: November 17th, 2015TIME: 8am PDT, 11am EDT, 4pm GMTBiobanks provide important capacity to collect large genomic data sets intended to enable the study of genetic signatures of an...
As one of the nation's most prevalent sexually transmitted infections, genital herpes represents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to clinicians, laboratorians and the patients they...
Please note that Oct. 26, 11pm PDT means following time in Europe and Asia: Oct. 27, 07am CET, 2pm China Standard Time, 3pm JPTSubstances leaching out of plastic consumables – so-...
Micro RNAs (miRNAs) are small, naturally-occurring non-coding ribonucleic acids with sizes between 18 and 40 nucleotides (nts) that have been demonstrated to play a significant role in the re...
The genome determines changes of the transcription profile upon environmental changes and finally determines how a cell reacts. A comparative genome and transcriptome analysis of the same sam...
Control of infection from methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been a healthcare focus for more than 50 years. One of the reasons that active surveillance testing (AST) for...
Managing microbial contaminants is critical during the manufacturing of biologics, food and beverage to ensure that products meet the high quality product standard as well as staying complian...
Exosomes are small secreted vesicles that have a diameter of ~50-200 nm. Exosomes are enriched for a specific subset of host-derived proteins, nucleic acids, lipids and carbohydrates, though ...
The emerging field of RNA nanotechnology has led to the utilization of the platform in the field of bionanotechnology as sensing platforms, diverse nanoparticle construction, in vivo computin...
Massive parallel sequencing (MPS) technologies have paved the way into new areas of research including individualized medicine. However, sequencing of trace amounts of nucleic acids still rem...
Identification of the many complex genetic aberrations associated with cancers, and deciphering their role in disease progression and response to treatment is one of the major challenges face...
DATE: January 19th, 2017TIME: 8:00AM PT, 11:00AM ETLiquid biopsies have the potential to be a less invasive method than traditional biopsies to detect advanced solid tumor mutational st...
Review Tips and Techniques on how to develop your own ELISA, including: Why you would use ELISA assays Different types of ELISA assays Key reagents Quantitation using standard cur...
Sanger sequencing and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) methods have been the standard molecular methods in clinical diagnostics for decades. Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology r...
Tumor heterogeneity has been known for a while but quantifying heterogeneity is still a challenge. NGS is the method of choice in the analysis of tumor heterogeneity, however, there are...
DATE: September 20th, 2016TIME: 7:00AM PST, 10:00AM ETThere is a growing trend towards developing in vitro cell models that recapitulate the in vivo environment in basic research,...
Alere™ i utilizes unique isothermal nucleic acid amplification technology which does not require temperature cycling or a sample purification step. It is significantly faster than other...
The Solana GAS Assay is a rapid in vitro diagnostic test for the qualitative detection of Group A β-hemolytic Streptococcus (Streptococcus pyogenes) nucleic acids isolated from throat sw...
DATE: June 9, 2016
TIME: 9AM Pacific time, 12pm Eastern time
The rapid growth of Microbiomics has increased the demand for standard methods to improve the reproducibility and...
Self-assembling protein microarrays arrays can be used to study protein-protein interactions, protein-drug interactions, search for enzyme substrates, and as tools to search for disease bioma...
A recently discovered communication system used by cells to send messages across the human body promises to revolutionize our understanding of disease and how we treat it. Technologies based...
DATE: February 2nd, 2016
TIME: 9am pacific time, 12pm eastern time
What is the most appropriate technology to empower your research?
Next generation sequencing (NGS) for RN...
DATE: January 27th, 2016
TIME: 9am CET
Photometry is a widely used analytical method in molecular biology labs. In many applications like cloning, sequencing, or PCR, you are workin...
DATE: November 24, 2015TIME: 9am EST, 2pm GMTFor many years now, gels have been a fundamental research tool in academic research for the separation and analysis of nucleic acids and pro...
DATE: November 17th, 2015TIME: 8am PDT, 11am EDT, 4pm GMTBiobanks provide important capacity to collect large genomic data sets intended to enable the study of genetic signatures of an...
As one of the nation's most prevalent sexually transmitted infections, genital herpes represents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to clinicians, laboratorians and the patients they...
Please note that Oct. 26, 11pm PDT means following time in Europe and Asia: Oct. 27, 07am CET, 2pm China Standard Time, 3pm JPTSubstances leaching out of plastic consumables – so-...
Micro RNAs (miRNAs) are small, naturally-occurring non-coding ribonucleic acids with sizes between 18 and 40 nucleotides (nts) that have been demonstrated to play a significant role in the re...
The genome determines changes of the transcription profile upon environmental changes and finally determines how a cell reacts. A comparative genome and transcriptome analysis of the same sam...
Control of infection from methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been a healthcare focus for more than 50 years. One of the reasons that active surveillance testing (AST) for...
Managing microbial contaminants is critical during the manufacturing of biologics, food and beverage to ensure that products meet the high quality product standard as well as staying complian...
Exosomes are small secreted vesicles that have a diameter of ~50-200 nm. Exosomes are enriched for a specific subset of host-derived proteins, nucleic acids, lipids and carbohydrates, though ...
The emerging field of RNA nanotechnology has led to the utilization of the platform in the field of bionanotechnology as sensing platforms, diverse nanoparticle construction, in vivo computin...