Pathogen is any disease-producing agent, especially a virus, bacterium, or other microorganism. It is an organism causing disease to its host, with the severity of the disease symptoms referred to as virulence. They include viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites that invade the body and can cause health issues.
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Date: October 28, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) uses a stand-displacing DNA polymerase and four to six primers to rapidly amplify DNA a...
Date: October 27, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) The COVID-19 pandemic has brought global awareness to the dangers of emerging pathogens to human health and welfare. Common molecular...
Date: October 26, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT), 3:00pm (CEST) With the IR Biotyper®, Dr. Markus Meyer will introduce the audience into the world of FT-IR (Fourier Transform Infr...
Vaccination and infection are two different paths to immunity. Understanding human immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 RNA vaccines is of interest for a panoply of reasons. mRNA vaccines have dem...
As the pandemic continues to evolve, new tools are needed to fight it. The greatest needs revolve around the ability to screen asymptomatic individuals for COVID-19 and to simultaneously tes...
By examining the host response to SARS-CoV-2 infection we gain valuable insights into viral pathogenesis and COVID-19 progression. MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of small (18-22nt), non-coding...
We’ll discuss the rapid discovery efforts to identify human monoclonal antibody drugs that protect against COVID-19. We will review the technologies used to find antibodies, the optima...
Date: October 12, 2021 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT), 3:00pm (CEST) Dr. Diana Kalinina shall introduce the MALDI Biotyper ® sirius platform and elaborate the already available as well...
Date: September 30, 2021 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT) Centrifugation is an indispensable laboratory application for separating and purifying a range of biological materials. Although a...
Date: September 27, 2021 Time: 3:00am (PDT), 6:00am (EDT), 12pm (CET) Experts are predicting an increase in influenza cases and a constant presence of SARS-CoV-2 in the shortly approaching i...
Date: September 13, 2021 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT) Sepsis is the most common cause of mortality in many hospitals and is most often caused by blood stream infections. The major contr...
The Human Microbiome Project was conceived almost 15 years ago, as an extension of the Human Genome Project, to explore the diversity of human-associated microorganisms at multiple body site...