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Biotechnology

BIOTECHNOLOGY

February 24-25, 2020
This conference permits leading educational scientists, researchers and industrialists from everywhere the planet to exchange and share their experiences, recent innovations, sensible challenges, advanced instrumentation and analysis results.

Plant Tissue Culture & Plant Biotechnology

PLANT TISSUE CULTURE & PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY

March 02-03, 2020
Plant Biotech 2020 Welcomes Professionals, Experts, Researchers, professors, scientific communities, delegates, students, business professionals and executives from all over the world and conference includes prompt Keynote presentations, Oral talks, Poster presentations, Symposium and Exhibitions.

Advanced Cell and Gene Therapy

ADVANCED CELL AND GENE THERAPY

March 16-17, 2020
The extract derived from the plant cell culture technology is being harnessed and utilized as an active ingredient in anti-aging skincare products.

Antibody Biology and Engineering

ANTIBODY BIOLOGY AND ENGINEERING

March 15-20, 2020
The conference will connect basic scientific aspects of B cell and antibody biology with applications to clinical antibody development, with key topics including antibodies targeting infectious disease agents, immunoglobulin effector function, antibody engineering, antibody structure, and pre-clinic...

15th Annual Biomarkers Congress

15TH ANNUAL BIOMARKERS CONGRESS

February 18-20, 2020
Over 350 attendees representing global pharmaceutical organisations, leading biotech companies and internationally renowned academic institutions working in the biomarker space across multiple therapeutic areas, such as immuno-oncology, neuroscience and cardiology.

Plant Science & Physiology

PLANT SCIENCE & PHYSIOLOGY

February 17-18, 2020
Plant tissue culture is the growth of plant cells outermost an intact plant. It depends on maintaining plant tissue in lab conditions on a suitable nutrient medium. The culture can be sustained as a mass of undifferentiated cells for a broad area for a period of time, or regenerated into whole plant...

Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing

INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOPROCESSING

February 17-18, 2020
Through a series of plenary sessions, workshops and breakout sessions, Industrial Biotechnology 2020 will provide a rigorous review of novel therapies, bio-products as well as report on the very latest findings in industrial biotechnology and bioprocessing research.

Annual Congress on Advances in Biotechnology

ANNUAL CONGRESS ON ADVANCES IN BIOTECHNOLOGY

February 17-18, 2020
The world is facing its extinction with the climatic changes, Global Warming, emerging and re-emerging new diseases uncontrollable waste generation, Depleting natural resource along with poverty and water scarcity. The Scientist from all over the world doing them best to compete with the Problems fo...

 

Webinars

FEB 25, 2020 | 11:00 am
PREVENTING DEMENTIA THROUGH A VIRTUAL TWIN BRAIN
Virtual human twins have begun to transform the development of new therapies as well as the patient experience, closing the loop between the manufacturer and the patient. As the Living Heart Project has demonstrated, it is possible to reconstruct a human heart from the genetic makeup of th...
FEB 26, 2020
DRUG DISCOVERY & DEVELOPMENT 2020
LabRoots and the Drug Discovery planning committee are pleased to announce the 3rd Annual Drug Discovery & Development Virtual Conference. LabRoots will host this online-only event on February 26, 2020. The Drug Discovery planning committee will carefully plan and select speakers that ...
FEB 26, 2020 | 12:00 pm
THE USE OF 3D MODELS IN HEPATIC BIOLOGY
3D cell culture and analysis and the study of organoids and spheroids are becoming more prevalent as a research method in publications as traditional 2D cell cultures lack the organizational complexity and longevity needed to serve as effective models. 3D cell cultures allow for more physi...
FEB 27, 2020 | 12:00 pm
ACCELERATING APPROVAL FOR CELL AND GENE THERAPIES
After decades of slow and steady progress, cell and gene therapies are experiencing important breakthroughs, demonstrating potential to slow disease progression, improve outcomes, and in some cases, potentially cure an array of illnesses. However, navigating complex clinical and regulatory...
FEB 27, 2020 | 10:00 AM
THE SUCCESSFUL EVOLUTION OF BIOTHERAPIES FROM DISCOVERY TO DEVELOPMENT
A large portion of biologics fail during development due to issues with efficacy, safety, or manufacturability. Evaluating potential liabilities as early as possible during the molecule design and lead selection phases can greatly increase the chances of identifying a successful candidate....
FEB 28, 2020 | 12:00 pm
WIDELY APPLICABLE CHARGE VARIANT ANALYSIS OF THERAPEUTIC PROTEINS
Finding ways to bring therapeutic proteins to market faster is an ongoing challenge for global pharmaceutical development. Of all the analytical methods to be developed, charge variant analysis methods, used to monitor post-translational modifications (PTMs), generally require the longest ...

BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR AQUACULTURE
Join this 60-minute KnipBio webinar, to learn examples of engineering solutions based on biotechnology that will help the sustainable expansion of this field. Aquaculture, or the farming of fish, shrimp and seaweeds, is expected to continue its dramatic growth in the coming decades. One of...
EFFICIENT TOOLS TO ENABLE DRUG TARGET AND BIOMARKER DISCOVERY
Large-scale sequencing of human tumors has uncovered a vast array of genomic alterations. Genetically engineered mouse models recapitulate many features of human cancer and have been instrumental in assigning biological meaning to specific cancer-associated alterations.
USRM SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHES STEM CELL
Dr. Kristin Comella, Chief Science Officer of U.S. Stem Cell, Inc. a leader in the development of proprietary, physician-based stem cell therapies and novel regenerative medicine solutions, today announced the successful launch of an open, livestream webinar series designed to inform and e...
TURN ON YOUR BIO-ENGINE – INCREASING THE PROFITABILITY OF YOUR BIOGAS PROCESS
Learn new methods to optimize the process between anaerobic digestion and the combined heat and power engine. Vaisala’s Product Manager Antti Heikkilä explains in detail the crucial measurement points related to humidity, methane, and carbon dioxide, and demonstrates how biogas ...
ACCELERATED AND AI-BASED GENOMIC WORKFLOWS ON-PREM AND IN THE CLOUD
Parabricks has accelerated the secondary analysis of sequencing data to analyze a 30X whole genome in minutes instead of days. Gain an in-depth understanding of how GPUs accelerate industry-standard algorithms used in BWA-Mem, GATK4 and deep learning technologies used in variant calling su...
EXPLORING THE GENETIC LANDSCAPE OF SOLID TUMORS USING WHOLE-GENOME COPY NUMBER ANALYSIS
Approximately 80% of all cancers are known to be affected by both somatic mutations and copy number changes. Furthermore, recent publications have shown that in certain types of cancers, copy number variations (CNVs) play a more important role than somatic mutations.

RESOURCES

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered how a new immune system works to protect bacteria from bacteriophages (phages), viruses that specifically infect ba...

Be warned. If the rise of the robots comes to pass, the apocalypse may be a more squelchy affair than science fiction writers have prepared us for. Now a team of scientists has repurposed living cells...

Any compounds you use during drug discovery and development have started their journey long before they ended up in your lab. They have been collected, stored, processed, and then finally delivered to...

In today’s biotechnology landscape, to be competitive, meet regulations, and achieve market demands, “we must apply Bioprocessing 4.0,” said Igor Fisch, PhD, CEO, Selexis. In fact, i...

In our lab, we focus on the impact of the gut microbiome on human health and disease. To evaluate this relationship, it’s important to understand the particular functions that different bacteria...

The fight against cancer has been boosted tremendously since the discovery of checkpoint inhibitor therapy – a form of cancer immunotherapy where key regulators of the immune system are blocked ...

A number of technical advances have been made to introduce exogenous DNA more effectively into host cells, and in parallel, many efforts have been made to improve and refine various expression vector ...

A Swiss research group has developed tiny plastic particles that could carry gene therapies to the center of the cell with less risk of getting attacked by the immune system than conventional gene the...

The cell and gene therapy sector is booming. At the end of 2019, there were 1,069 registered clinical trials in the field. By 2024, the cell and gene therapy market is estimated to reach revenues of $...