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The microenvironment of many solid tumors impedes many immunotherapeutic treatments by inhibiting the effector functions of many classes of anti-tumor immune cells, including effector T cell...
The ultimate promise of tumor immunotherapy is dependent on the generation of effective immunity against cancer, including CD4 and CD8 T cell responses. However, activating T cells in cancer...
Human solid tumors, like breast cancers, represent a heterogeneous group of diseases that is best demonstrated through many differences in clinical outcomes within homogenously treated patie...
Molecular diagnostic tests are currently used for infectious disease testing due to the superior sensitivity and specificity that can be obtained. Due to the success that has been obtained w...
Racial and ethnic minorities often experience cancer disparities in the United States with higher disease prevalence, shorter survival, and higher death rates with many cancer types. These d...
Technological advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly deep learning, have demonstrated remarkable progress in image-recognition tasks. Methods ranging from convolutional neura...
Date: October 04, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) The Miro Canvas is a new platform which enables full walkaway automation of complex next generation sequencing (NGS) s...
Tumors invade surrounding tissue as cancer progresses, but the heterogeneity of cell types at the tumor-stroma interface and the complexity of their interactions has hampered mechanistic ins...
Individuals with Lynch syndrome (LS) are prone to develop early-onset mismatch repair deficient (dMMR) colorectal- and endometrial cancers due to germline pathogenic variants (PVs) in one of...
Targeted sequencing has many applications in cancer biomarker research, carrier screening and inherited disorders, drug development, mitochondrial DNA variant detection, human ID and paterni...
The majority of disease-associated genetic variants are thought to have regulatory effects, including disruption of transcription factor (TF) binding and alteration of downstream gene expres...
We recently determined that concurrent inhibition of autophagy, using the lysosomal inhibitor chloroquine (CQ), and of ERK, using a small molecule ERK inhibitor (ERKi), synergistically suppr...
There are known outcome disparities between Black and White patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs). Multiple retrospective series have found that Black patients have more adv...
The increasing quantity and quality of spatially resolved omics data provide a unique opportunity to explore the complex molecular mechanisms that take place in biological systems. However,...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a computer program designed to perform operations typical of human intelligence, such as self-learning. AI is taking over different fields in science; we alre...
Prostate cancer (PCa) affects one in nine men and is the most diagnosed solid tumor cancer among men in the United States. The introduction of the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) biomarker b...
Date: September 29, 2022 Time: 11:00am (PDT), 2:00pm (EDT), 8:00pm (CEST) Pharmacogenomic (PGx) testing is a dynamic and fascinating application for genetic testing. We'll review the bas...
Date: September 29, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PST), 12:00pm (EST), 6:00pm (CEST) The increased complexities of high throughput workflows within the lab can create demands on researchers. As your la...
Date: September 29, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00am (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Adeno-associated virus (AAV) is one of the most widely used delivery vehicles in gene therapy. To ensure the safety...
Date: September 29, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) Development and evolution are controlled, to a large degree, by regions of genomic DNA called enhancers that encode...
Date: September 29, 2022 Time: 6:00am (PDT), 9:00am (EDT), 3:00pm (CET) The global burden of candidiasis remains relatively stable. However, the epidemiology of the last ten years shows a shi...
Date: September 28, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) While COVID-19 continues to be the most pressing diagnostic focus for clinical laboratories, HIV remains a serious g...
Date: September 28, 2022 Time: 7:00am (PDT), 10:00am (EDT), 4:00pm (CEST) CRISPR/Cas gene editing technology has rapidly evolved over the last decade. Its versatility extends from creating t...
Date: September 27, 2022 Time: 9:00am (PDT), 12:00pm (EDT), 6:00pm (CEST) Synthetic DNA oligonucleotides are used broadly across many different application areas, from basic R&D to clini...
Date: September 27, 2022 Time: 8:00am (PDT), 11:00pm (EDT), 5:00pm (CEST) Temperature sensitive (TS) alleles are mutations in essential genes that allow for growth at permissive temperatures...
Date: September 22, 2022 Time: 10:00am (PDT), 1:00pm (EDT), 7:00pm (CEST) Digital PCR (dPCR) is a specialized approach to nucleic acid detection ......