Lab testing is a procedure in which a health care provider takes a sample of your blood, urine, other bodily fluid, or body tissue to get information about your health. It is done in the laboratory where the appropriate equipment, supplies, and certified expertise are available.
DATE: November 4th, 2015
TIME: 11:00am Pacific time, 2:00pm Eastern time
AMPK, a highly conserved sensor of cellular energy status, is found in all eukaryotic cells and maintains met...
DATE: September 17, 2015TIME: 7:30AM PDT, 10:30AM EDTAs technology advances and globalization develops, our way of life has become more dependent on energy sources to power our everyday activ...
As a computational scientist I have been fortunate to work with many collaborators to generate biological data to train and test my models. We are in a position with increasing amounts of dat...
DATE: September 15, 2015TIME: 10:00AM Pacific time, 1:00PM Eastern timeThe breadth of instruments available for quantitative PCR (qPCR) has continued to grow in the past 5-10 years. With ...
DATE: September 9, 2015TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00PM EDTDriver mutations are causally implicated in tumorigenesis and disease progression, and they are defined by molecular abnormalities such as ...
Date: Tuesday, June 30th, 2015Time: 11:00AM PDT, 2:00PM EDT There is a growing interest of LC-tandem MS in clinical laboratories because this analytical technique can provide definitive ident...
Matching the mutational profile of a patient's tumor with appropriate targeted agents is a goal of personalized medicine in oncology. The number of FDA-approved targeted therapies, as well as...
CMS continues to make changes to how all healthcare providers are reimbursed in attempts to control the cost of the services provided to Medicare beneficiaries. This has led to value-based r...
Germline cancer genetics became a reality with the cloning of the tumor suppressor gene RB1 for hereditary retinoblastoma in 1986 by Friend and Weinberg. The existence of cancer susceptibili...
Technological advances in high throughput, low cost DNA sequencing coupled with the availability of a high quality reference assembly allow us to interrogate the genome with greater precision...
Sea slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudipleura) provide unique opportunities for studying the evolution of behavior at the levels of single neurons, neural circuits, and their synaptic connectio...
The NIH BRAIN initiative, informed by the report from the scientific community (BRAIN 2025) is underway. The major funded efforts at this time fit into 3 main categories; 1) defining the comp...
This presentation will include both preclinical and small clinical studies with details on mechanism of action, safety and efficacy of a candidate drug that has the capability of alleviating...
Recent advances in noninvasive neuroimaging have set the stage for the systematic exploration of human brain circuits in health and disease. The Human Connectome Project (HCP) is systematical...
The hippocampal formation is one of the most extensively studied regions of the brain, with well described anatomy and basic physiology; moreover, aspects of human memory mediated by hippocam...
As evidenced by the changes in the new Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory animals and the latest AVMA Panel on Euthanasia, it is clear that there is growing concern about the care and w...
In the context of an experimental project requiring surgical preparation of animals, training is not only required for technicians lacking a strong surgical background but also for more exper...
Soiled-bedding sentinels are not always efficient in detecting pathogens in rodent colonies. In this context, PCR-based testing can be more sensitive and is being advocated as adjunct to trad...
 Equine anti-doping analysis is a changing and dynamic field of science. The constant introduction of new drugs and biopharmaceuticals present challenges to the integrity of sports. Anti-dopi...
Contamination is an everyday challenge in cell culture labs. Undetected or ignored contamination and misidentification of cell lines endanger the reliability and reproducibility of experiment...
Accurate and timely diagnosis of rejection and infection is essential for long-term survival of solid-organ transplant recipients. We evaluated the performance a novel test to monitor rejecti...
With advances in next-generation sequencing, whole-exome and genome sequencing (WGES) is now accessible as a tool in many applications. In the clinical setting, WGES is proving to be very val...
The advent of next generation sequencing technologies has revolutionized the clinical genetics laboratory. Labs offering NGS are faced with an onslaught of sequence variants which must be int...
The unanimous Supreme Court ruling of 2013 regarding gene patents made competition for BRCA1 and BRCA2 testing a reality. Within hours of the decision multiple labs began offering more compre...
DATE: November 4th, 2015
TIME: 11:00am Pacific time, 2:00pm Eastern time
AMPK, a highly conserved sensor of cellular energy status, is found in all eukaryotic cells and maintains met...
DATE: September 17, 2015TIME: 7:30AM PDT, 10:30AM EDTAs technology advances and globalization develops, our way of life has become more dependent on energy sources to power our everyday activ...
As a computational scientist I have been fortunate to work with many collaborators to generate biological data to train and test my models. We are in a position with increasing amounts of dat...
DATE: September 15, 2015TIME: 10:00AM Pacific time, 1:00PM Eastern timeThe breadth of instruments available for quantitative PCR (qPCR) has continued to grow in the past 5-10 years. With ...
DATE: September 9, 2015TIME: 9:00am PDT, 12:00PM EDTDriver mutations are causally implicated in tumorigenesis and disease progression, and they are defined by molecular abnormalities such as ...
Date: Tuesday, June 30th, 2015Time: 11:00AM PDT, 2:00PM EDT There is a growing interest of LC-tandem MS in clinical laboratories because this analytical technique can provide definitive ident...
Matching the mutational profile of a patient's tumor with appropriate targeted agents is a goal of personalized medicine in oncology. The number of FDA-approved targeted therapies, as well as...
CMS continues to make changes to how all healthcare providers are reimbursed in attempts to control the cost of the services provided to Medicare beneficiaries. This has led to value-based r...
Germline cancer genetics became a reality with the cloning of the tumor suppressor gene RB1 for hereditary retinoblastoma in 1986 by Friend and Weinberg. The existence of cancer susceptibili...
Technological advances in high throughput, low cost DNA sequencing coupled with the availability of a high quality reference assembly allow us to interrogate the genome with greater precision...
Sea slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Nudipleura) provide unique opportunities for studying the evolution of behavior at the levels of single neurons, neural circuits, and their synaptic connectio...
The NIH BRAIN initiative, informed by the report from the scientific community (BRAIN 2025) is underway. The major funded efforts at this time fit into 3 main categories; 1) defining the comp...
This presentation will include both preclinical and small clinical studies with details on mechanism of action, safety and efficacy of a candidate drug that has the capability of alleviating...
Recent advances in noninvasive neuroimaging have set the stage for the systematic exploration of human brain circuits in health and disease. The Human Connectome Project (HCP) is systematical...
The hippocampal formation is one of the most extensively studied regions of the brain, with well described anatomy and basic physiology; moreover, aspects of human memory mediated by hippocam...
As evidenced by the changes in the new Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory animals and the latest AVMA Panel on Euthanasia, it is clear that there is growing concern about the care and w...
In the context of an experimental project requiring surgical preparation of animals, training is not only required for technicians lacking a strong surgical background but also for more exper...
Soiled-bedding sentinels are not always efficient in detecting pathogens in rodent colonies. In this context, PCR-based testing can be more sensitive and is being advocated as adjunct to trad...
 Equine anti-doping analysis is a changing and dynamic field of science. The constant introduction of new drugs and biopharmaceuticals present challenges to the integrity of sports. Anti-dopi...
Contamination is an everyday challenge in cell culture labs. Undetected or ignored contamination and misidentification of cell lines endanger the reliability and reproducibility of experiment...
Accurate and timely diagnosis of rejection and infection is essential for long-term survival of solid-organ transplant recipients. We evaluated the performance a novel test to monitor rejecti...
With advances in next-generation sequencing, whole-exome and genome sequencing (WGES) is now accessible as a tool in many applications. In the clinical setting, WGES is proving to be very val...
The advent of next generation sequencing technologies has revolutionized the clinical genetics laboratory. Labs offering NGS are faced with an onslaught of sequence variants which must be int...
The unanimous Supreme Court ruling of 2013 regarding gene patents made competition for BRCA1 and BRCA2 testing a reality. Within hours of the decision multiple labs began offering more compre...