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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Triple negative breast cancers TNBCs account for of breast cancer deaths and lack targeted therapies Drs Sonenshein Mineva and Romagnoli and their co workers recently identified the non essential cell surface protein ADAM A Disintegrin and Metalloprotease as a pivotal promoter of breast tumor growth and metastasis and validated it as a target o ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant In nearly million new cancer cases are estimated to occur in the US where nearly two thirds will have treatment by radiation therapy In current clinical practice organ contour delineation on medical images is still performed with low levels of automation due to lack of highly automated commercial contouring software This deteriorates therapy plann ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Bacterial related marginal decay is the top reason for failure and retreatment of resin based composite restorations RBCs Retreatment of these restorations costs both the patients and insurance companies billions of dollars per year The weak point of the system is the zone known as the hybrid layer where the adhesive bonds the RBC to the dentin There are ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Cognition Therapeutics Inc andapos s mission is to develop effective therapeutics for Alzheimerandapos s disease Recent scientific discoveries have identified oligomers of the brain protein Abeta as toxic culprits in the disease process Cognition has discovered therapeutic molecules that displace Abeta oligomers from neurons and block the downstream pathol ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Neuropathic pain is a serious health problem that affects millions of people worldwide and occurs in as much as of the general population The management of neuropathic pain in patients is complex with an estimated of individuals refractory to existing analgesic therapies The aging population the diabetes epidemic and the significant cohorts of can ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Epilepsy is the th most common neurological disorder with in people developing epilepsy the occurrence of more than one unprovoked seizure at some point in their lifetime Unfortunately of all patients have intractable medication resistant epilepsy Thus new anti epileptic drugs AEDs that target alternative mechanisms of action are needed ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Gfree Bio proposes to collaborate with Professor Bajaj and his group at the University of Texas to develop a general and much more theoretically rigorous algorithm for fitting the ligand binding region of experimental protein ligand cocrystal structures Current methods and practices often lead to very poor geometries for the bound ligand This is a significant ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Optical microscopy is the most commonly used imaging technique in life and material sciences however the spatial resolution of any standard microscope is fundamentally limited by the diffraction of light waves which for visible light restricts spatial resolution to nm Surpassing the diffraction limit significantly impacts several disciplines such as me ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant HIV disproportionately impacts minority adolescents and most of them have neither undergone HIV testing and counseling HTC nor know their status Adolescence is a andquot window of opportunityandquot to intervene with HIV behavior change interventions Challenges to implementing and disseminating some effective HIV prevention programs in adolescents may lim ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Non Invasive Highly Specific Detection of Oxytocin in Biological Fluids Oxytocin a neuropeptide hormone plays an important role in a variety of complex social behaviors including affiliation sexual behavior and aggression It is best known for its role to facilitate the birth process through induction of myometrial muscle contractions However recent studi ...