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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Glycans have several distinct properties that make their development as disease biomarkers appealing Firstly their location on cell surfaces makes them the first point of contact for cellular interactions and thus they are crucial in the control of normal metabolic processes and conversely they function as pathogen adhesion receptors Secondly specific gl ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The ability to accurately quantitate the glycan chains attached to glycoproteins has wide ranging implications Numerous studies over the past years have demonstrated that abnormal glycosylation occurs in virtually all types of human cancers and demonstrate the potential of using glycan markers in either a diagnostic or a prognostic manner The glycosylatio ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The human transcriptome is significantly more complex than its cognate genome due to the hundreds of thousands of possible isoforms allele specific expression issues variable RNA editing changes and differential expression patterns spanning cell types developmental stages and physiological stresses Next generation sequencing NGS platforms are fundame ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Ocular graft versus host disease O GVHD is a particularly severe and debilitating complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation HSCT O GVHD develops in of patients with chronic GVHD Currently Restasis cyclosporine A is the only FDA approved prescription topical medication to treat O GVHD In Restasis had sales o ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Staphylococcus is the most common cause of infections worldwide The pathogen persists asymptomatically on human skin from which it may spread to ocular tissues and cause corneal infection When this happens corneal bacterial keratitis can occur and if not treated effectively it may lead to blindness Multi Drug Resistant MDR variants of S aureus Sa are ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this project is to develop functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI tools to assist the diagnosis and treatment of human patients with a brain tumor or other operable pathology The specific focus of this proposal is to produce a practical clinic ready suite of MR imaging methods analyses and display tools to solve the number one impediment to ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There are growing demands for D structure determination of nucleic acids and their protein complexes for understanding disease molecule level mechanisms and discovering innovative drugs X ray crystallography is one of the most direct and powerful tools for structure determination of these macromolecules and complexes However the crystallization and phase d ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Neurodegenerative diseases that affect motor neurons such as PD ALS and HD represent an enormous unmet medical need that is growing with the aging population Existing treatments have little or no effect on the course of disease and patients have to cope with the loss of brain and body function for the rest of their lives Defects in the transport of organell ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The most common metastatic site for hormone refractory prostate cancer HRPC PCa is bone While docetaxel can prolong the overall survival in patients with metastatic HRPC current treatments do not provide a cure Further complicating the matter HRPC is a disease that affects a variety of patients differently which can be problematic for physicians to prov ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of iFIT Prosthetics LLC r and its founder was to create and commercialize a modular immediate fit fully adjustable transtibial prosthesis system suitable for mass production using high strength polymer materials that are injection molded at a fraction of the cost of conventionally made prostheses This goal was achieved and now the aims of this P ...