Volume 46, Issue S1 - Supplement: IFCC WorldLab Fortaleza 2008

- The ubiquitin proteolytic system: from basic mechanisms through human diseases and onto drug targeting S1 - Understanding the T helper response against HIV and CD4+ T-cell-inducing HIV vaccines S2 - Molecular basis of diseases S3 - Towards therapeutic applications of engineered zinc finger proteins S4

- SYM01 The laboratory in diabetes and prediabetes S5 - SYM2 The molecular basis of medicine and the clinical laboratory S10 - SYM03 Chagas disease: parasite diversity and diagnosis S15 - SYM04 The concept of traceability in laboratory medicine - a tool for standardisation S21 - SYM05 Analytical quality S26 - SYM6 Evidence based laboratory medicine S31 - SYM07 Nutritional aspects in laboratory medicine S36 - SYM08 Simple carbohydrate metabolism and disease: exploring the regulatory mechanisms S40 - Workshop 41: Peer review & ethics in publishing S45 - SYM 42 Quality assurance in emerging technologies S48 - SYM9 Proteomics S52 - SYM10 Clinical immunology: allergy and autoimmunity – new developments from bench to bedside S58 - SYM11 Tropical diseases in America – epidemiology and laboratory approach S64 - SYM12 Laboratory medicine and osteoporosis S69 - SYM13 Genetic and acquired thrombophilia S74 - SYM14 New trends in the clinical laboratory S80 - Workshop 43 – Evidence in laboratory practice S83 - SYM16 Predictive medicine: from theory to practise S93 - SYM17 Cardiac markers: present and future S96 - SYM18 Pharmacogenetics and the clinical laboratory S104 - SYM19 Molecular diagnosis of infectious disease S108 - SYM20 Rise of mass spectrometry - fall of immunoassay? S114 - SYM21 Subjects in medical mycology S120 - SYM37 An ongoing collaboration between Brazil and Italy for a good medical laboratory service S125 - SYM 44 Laboratory medicine in developing countries: issues and challenges S129 - SYM25 The clinical laboratory and patient management: how do they relate? S132 - SYM26 The stress syndrome: biochemical and physiological consequences in man S136 - SYM27 HIV-AIDS: Molecular diagnosis, genotyping and epidemiology S142 - SYM28 The clinical relevance of uncertainty: analytical quality and clinical decision making S147 - SYM29 Immunophenotyping of leukemia and lymphoma S153 - SYM30 Circulating nucleic acids as a new platform for molecular diagnosis S157 - SYM31 Laboratory medicine in elderly people S161 - SYM32 Hemostaseology and the clinical laboratory S165