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In prior projects, including a 2015 ED/IES SBIR award, the team developed two immersive multiplayer virtual game environments. In Eco and Colony, middle school students collaboratively apply scientific practices within the virtual worlds to address challenges, such as the availability of resources and energy and maintaining clean water. With this Phase I funding, the team is developing a prototype ...

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project will develop a commercially viable device that uses micro scale acoustic streaming low frequency sound energy to deliver mixing to the interior of three dimensional D scaffolds used for stem cell cultivation applications The enabling advantage of low frequency sound energy is the ability to generate micro scale mixing in and around sca ...

Several types of cancers e g pancreatic and brain malignancies remain extremely lethal despite the introduction of chemotherapy more than years ago The hallmark of all cancers are somatic mutations which cannot be corrected In sharp contrast epigenetic changes essential contributors to tumorigenesis are pharmacologically reversible The ability to remedy detrimental epigenetic alteratio ...

PROJECT SUMMARY As the cancer drug industry suffers from the lowest success rate in developing cancer cure drugs cell migration assessment assays that evaluate the transition of cells from a benign to a metastatic phenotype have gained more attention Given the fact that metastatic cancer cells are substantially harder to eradicate than those that are benign migratory propensity is now understoo ...

Project Summary Our goal is to develop a novel L lactis probiotic based therapeutic for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis RA RA is a chronic systemic inflammatory disorder affecting as much as worldwide and as much as of the US population The exact frequencies depend on geographical origin and gender women being three times more affected than men While many organs are affecte ...

Project Summary Our goal is to validate a novel Lactococcus lactis L lactis based platform to rapidly develop and deliver tolerance inducing therapeutics for the treatment of autoimmunity and allergy Autoimmune and allergic diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis MS Type Diabetes and food allergies affect of the world population and are continuing to rise These illnesses are the ...

Project Summary Our goal is to develop VTC D as a novel tolerance inducing therapeutic for the treatment of Type Diabetes T D T D is an autoimmune disease characterized by the destruction of the insulin producing pancreatic beta cells While the etiology of T D remains undefined evidence suggests that autoimmunity to insulin is a major driver of disease initiation Each year over ...

The chemokine receptors CXCR and CXCR CXCR are validated as having essential roles in the growth survival motility invasion and angiogenesis of human melanoma which secretes abundant amounts of the corresponding chemokine ligands including CXCL Additionally abnormal cancer induced immunosuppressive myeloid derived suppressor cells MDSCs in the circulation and tumor correlate with ...

Abstract Chronic kidney disease CKD is a progressive disorder affecting almost of the general population and this disease has shown a relentless growth over the past decades Patients with CKD have higher rates of hospitalization greater mortality shorter life expectancy and their healthcare costs are up to times more expensive than non CKD patients Thus treatments to slow halt ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The goal this Phase SBIR project is to develop an agonist bias assay for screening drugs that target seven transmembrane G protein coupled receptors GPCRs Phase will establish the feasibility of a robust assay platform to detect when particular GPCR agonists activate both arrestin and G protein pathways This assay will detect responses in living cells on automated fluores ...