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Testing Bio Sole biosensor as a wearable technology to quantify BAC in real time

TuberculosisTBis currently the leading infectious cause of death worldwideTB treatment includes multiple different combinations of antibioticsdosesand long time periodsThe current standard includes an intensive phase ofmonthsfollowed by a continuation phase of eitherormonthsHowevertreatment outcome can be poor due to drug drug interactionsimpaired medication adherencedrug absorption and metabolism ...

Increasingly defined vaccines against infectious diseases are better tolerated but less immunogenicrequiring use of an immunological adjuvant for best effectAdjuvance s semi synthetic saponin adjuvant TiterQuilTQLhas shown remarkable efficacy with a variety of antigens with no detectable reactogenicityWhen combined withof the leading vaccines against influenzaFluzoneFluarix and Flublokstriking aug ...

HIV disease continues to be a serious health issue for the whole worldCurrentlyantiretroviral therapyARTis a widely accepted treatment to HIV infected patientswhich reduces morbidity and mortality and the potential for HIV transmission by suppressing viral replicationHowevertreatment outcomes of ART are limited due to the high adherence requirement and occurrence of drug resistanceProteolysis targ ...

Over one million Americans andmillion people worldwide are infected with HIVmaking it one of the most pressing public health concerns of our timeUnfortunatelythere are no vaccines available and treatment requires lifelong anti retroviral therapiesThis proposal combines two technologies for the development of a vaccine against HIVEnva novel adjuvantspontaneous nanoliposome antigen particleizationSN ...

CytomegalovirusCMVis a very common intrauterine infectionaffecting approximately one in everychildrenThe overall disease burden in the US with congenital CMV was estimated at $billion annuallyCMV is also a cause of serious morbidity and fatal infections in immunocompromised patientsThere is currently no generally accepted therapy and developing a CMV vaccine is high priorityCurrently CMV trials re ...

Photodynamic therapyPDTutilizes light beam to activate photosensitizers to produce cytotoxic reactive oxygen speciesROSand it has been proposed as a potent treatment to combine with Radiation TherapyRTespecially for the idea of using X ray beam to locally activate PDTXPDTMajority studies about XPDT have used nanoscintillators as the X ray transducer to activate photosensitizersHoweverthe materials ...

Combining both genomic analysis and highEresolution imaging on a cellEbyEcell basis typically relies on customized technology which often requires significant expertise and capital costCell MicrosystemsInchas partnered with Peter SimsPhD of Columbia University to commercialize a novel workflow for integrated imaging and sample preparation for single cell transcriptomic analysisDrSims workflowSingl ...

Circular RNAscircRNAsare a novel class of modified RNAs that are an abundant component of the epitranscriptomePutative functions of circRNAsinclude miRNA sequestrationRNA binding protein scaffoldingmRNA trappingand protein translation regulationDeregulation in one or more of these roles has been linked to several types of cancerOne well studied circRNAciRSis believed to act as a miRNAsponge and in ...

Clonogenic assays measure the ability of single cells to proliferate and form a colonyThis process approximates closely the regrowth and recurrence of tumors after treatment with radiation or chemotherapyproviding an assay to screen for drugs that block this processYetclonogenic assays are labor intensive and too cumbersome for high throughout screeningHTSof compound librariesHere we propose to de ...