 | | | Hepatitis E Virus, or HEV, is a viral infection that generates inflammation of the liver. The disease is commonly transmitted through contact with contaminated drinking water and is common in East and South Asia. However, it is becoming apparent that HEV is contracted by those in any region with weakened immune ... |
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| | |  | | | To maintain a healthy immune system, doctors advise patients to take vitamins and minerals. Vitamins have many functions that benefit the body, including resisting infection, energy boost, aiding in blood clotting, improving brain function, generation of red blood cells, promoting a healthy gut microbiome ... |
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| | |  | | | New studies have provided novel insights into long COVID, which continues to affect millions of people worldwide. The exact rates of the disease are hard to determine because of variations in clinical criteria, and other differences such as differing standards for who is included or excluded from a long COVID ... |
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| | |  | | | What can microgravity teach us about stem cell growth? This is what a recent study published in NPJ Microgravity hopes to address as a pair of researchers from the Mayo Clinic investigated past research regarding the growth properties of stem cells, specifically regeneration, differentiation, and cell ... |
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| | |  | | | A recent study published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society has delved into how exercise intensity and biological sex impact levels of ghrelin, a hormone associated with hunger, as well as subjective feelings of hunger. Ghrelin, often called the "hunger hormone," regulates food intake and energy ... |
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| | | Andres Salas Garcia, MD. - Urologist physician, Oncology Hospital of the National Medical Center Siglo XXI (Mexico) “Webinar delivered in Spanish with subtitles in Portuguese” In 2022, there were approximately 1.4 million new cases of prostate cancer reported globally and over 397,000 deaths reported globally. Prostate cancer can be found early in asymptomatic men using a simple, safe, and inexpensive blood test. • The most widely used screening tests for prostate cancer ... |
| | | | | Julia Roberti, Ph.D. - Senior Product Manager, Advanced Confocal Imaging. Business Unit Life Science & Applied Solutions, Leica Microsystems Luis Alvarez, Ph.D. - Application Manager, Functional Imaging. Business Unit Life Science & Applied Solutions, Leica Microsystems. The STELLARIS confocal platform offers significant advancements for high-multiplex strategies, integrating a tunable white light laser (WLL) with an excitation range from 440 nm to 790 nm and up to five highly sensitive, photon-counting spectral detectors. This configuration enables complete flexibility in detection from 410 nm to the near-infrared (NIR) spectrum, accommodating a broad array of ... |
| | | | | Melissa R. Snyder, PhD, DABCC - Co-Director, Antibody Immunology Laboratory, Mayo Clinic Maintaining consistent assay performance over time is critical for clinical laboratories. While assay performance characteristics may be clearly understood at the time of validation, variations can occur within kit components and reagents between production lots. These variations can affect long term analytical and clinical performance. For clinical laboratories, assessments of new ... |
| | | | | Kevin Taylor, Ph.D. - Director, Proteogenomics, Revvity Nik Matthews, Ph.D. - Head of the Imperial BRC Genomics Facility, Imperial College London, UK Linda Orzolek, MS - Head of Single Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics Lab Operations, OMAPiX Dino Di Carlo, Ph.D. - Professor and Chair, Department of Bioengineering</br> University of California, Los Angeles Single-cell sequencing (scSeq) is transforming disease research by revealing the intricate diversity across cell populations, uncovering crucial biomarkers and therapeutic targets often masked by bulk approaches. This technique has been particularly impactful in cancer research, where it has advanced our understanding of tumor biology, paving the way for more targeted and effective treatments and ... |
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