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Breast cancer is a complex heterogeneous disease, with each subtype characterized by distinct clinical features and molecular alterations. The heterogeneity of breast cancer has presented mas...
There have been significant increases in emergency room visits across the US and delays in the ED leads to poor outcomes. There is an association between waiting times and short term mo...
Liquid chromatography high resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LC-TOF-MS) is becoming increasingly popular in the clinical research laboratory. It can offer higher throughput and sup...
The recent Zika virus outbreak highlights the need for low-cost diagnostics that can be rapidly developed for distribution and use in pandemic regions. In early 2016 we developed a pipe...
Laboratory tests come into existence through a variety of processes but regardless of the genesis all share a certain set of requirements. These include discovery, development, validation, re...
DATE: November 3, 2016
TIME: 9:00AM PT, 12:00PM ET
Patient safety is at the core of biopharmaceutical manufacturing operations. Ensuring virus safety of biopharmaceutical products p...
The aim of the learning healthcare system is to leverage data stored in the electronic health record (EHR) to gain insights into and improve healthcare delivery. Laboratory testing represents...
Fusion genes are hybrid genes formed by the fusion of two separate genes. Translocation, interstitial deletion and chromosomal inversions are some of the genetic events that can lead to the f...
IQCP represents a new approach to quality control for clinical laboratories. Beginning in 2016 clinical laboratories were tasked with developing individualized quality control plans for...
Core or central laboratory are facing several challenges. First, the management and operations of a successful modern laboratory is a real complex exercise, with multiple pre- and post-analyt...
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...
Today there are about 7B mobile phone worldwide and about 50,000 mobile health applications actively changing the landscape of how healthcare will be delivered in the next years. While numero...
In the past several years, there has been an increase in drug testing associated with chronic pain. Immunoassays are the most common method for initial screening which can test for a specific...
Vitamin D3 supplementation can effectively remedy the current epidemic of vitamin D deficiency, especially within the African-American population and the elderly of any ethnicity. Racial disp...
With increasing emphasis on effective pain management in clinical care, there has been a significant increase in the number of opioid prescriptions in the past decade. While these drugs...
Are there DNA targets in your lab that are difficult to genotype using standard PCR or sequencing?Do you ever need to genotype a single sample, and you don’t want to wait to batch sam...
Vitamin D insufficiency and deficiency are prevalent worldwide, and pregnant women and infants are at highest risk for having deficiency and related consequences. Epidemiologic studies have s...
Most of the tests performed for patient care use automated colorimetric and immunoassay methods in the clinical laboratories. Clinical labs are regulated by CLIA and are routinely inspected b...
Chronic pain is a major problem in most countries. Specialized pain management physicians often see and treat patients with chronic pain, and one type of therapy that may be prescribed is an...
Whole genome and exome sequencing is being widely used to identify disease-causing variants in patients with hereditary and rare diseases. Discovering the true disease-causing variants often...
DATE: November 1, 2016
TIME: 8:00AM PT, 11:00AM ET
Metastatic cancer is an evolving, heterogeneous disease that becomes more complex over time through the selection of sub-clonal tumor po...
DATE: November 1, 2016
TIME: 7:00am PT, 10:00am ET
Clinical laboratories are under increasing pressure from three sources: reimbursement, regulatory, and resource. Reimburseme...
DATE: October 27, 2016
TIME: 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET
The importance of antibodies as tools in scientific research studies cannot be understated, yet these reagents have increasi...
DATE: October 25th, 2016TIME: 9:00 AM PT, 12:00 PM ETTIBCO Spotfire is a powerful data visualization platform. Its functionality can be extended by creating custom tools. The...
DATE: October 19, 2016
TIME: 9:00 AM PT, 12:00 PM ET, 6:00 PM CEST
Hardly anyone would run an RNA gel without a ladder, but transcriptomes are mostly sequenced without ...
DATE: October 19th, 2016
TIME: 8:00 AM PT, 11:00 AM ET
Comprehensive characterization of protein therapeutics through highly quantitative data is crucial in order to eliminate risk to pat...