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Test kits
Test kits, also known as at-home medical tests or home use tests, allow an individual to test, screen, or monitor for a certain diseases and disorders. Test kits provide samples which are collected in a non-invasive manner, and they can be obtained without a healthcare professional in the privacy of one's own home. Examples of some at-home test kits include those which test for: pregnancy, blood sugar, fecal occult blood, genetic, and COVID-19.
JUL 01, 2020 | 8:00 AM
DATE: July 1, 2020 TIME: 8:00 am PDT, 11:00 am EDT In late 2019, researchers identified the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen as the virus responsible for COVID-19. The virus spread rapidly throughout the...
JUL 01, 2020 | 2:00 PM
Background: Preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) and structural rearrangement (PGT-SR) have been widely used within indications of previous miscarriages, repeated implantat...
JUL 01, 2020 | 12:15 PM
Learn about how the new Ion Torrent Genexus System is addressing key challenges to next-generation sequencing (NGS) implementation, like hands-on time, time-to-result, user expertise, and af...
JUN 25, 2020 | 8:00 AM
DATE: June 25, 2020 TIME: 8:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT, 4:00pm BST, 5:00pm CEST Mass Spectrometry (MS) has been an invaluable tool for physicists and basic chemists for over 100 years. It was not...
JUN 17, 2020 | 7:30 AM
The spread of the SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic is driving an urgent need for extensive testing, including patients and health workers as a priority. The most sensitive and reliable method...
JUN 09, 2020 | 10:00 AM
DATE: June 9, 2020 TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET The presentation will first discuss sepsis as a disease and then explain the importance of performing diagnostic tests in the clinical labora...
MAY 20, 2020 | 12:00 AM
The current gold standard for COVID-19 diagnosis is based on the detection of SARS-CoV-2 nucleic acid using real-time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR). Recent studies suggest limitations of RT-qPC...
MAY 07, 2020 | 7:00 AM
DATE: May 7, 2020 TIME: 7:00am PT As cost of sequencing continues to drop, the throughput and complexity of NGS assays have risen precipitously. At the same time, the types of samples being...
APR 21, 2020 | 12:00 PM
Careful and deliberate packaging of the genome is essential to ensuring correct and timely transcriptional programs. Chromatin conformation capture (3C and Hi-C) is a powerful approach for c...
APR 21, 2020 | 10:30 AM
Karyomapping, a technique for preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) of single gene disorders, involves using very few or single cells, and comes with challenges due to limited amounts of s...
APR 16, 2020 | 9:00 AM
DATE: April 16, 2020 TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET There is an increasing need to evaluate and understand unique phenotypes and mechanisms of action within the tumor microenvironment. Existing...
APR 02, 2020 | 2:30 PM
BGI group has been at the forefront in the fight against covid-19. Starting from building a lab in Wuhan, sequencing first 2019-nCoV virus genome and offering RT-PCR and sequencing based det...
