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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Metastasis or dissemination of primary tumor cells is the major cause of mortality in cancer patients Circulating tumor cells CTCs in the bloodstream are key players in the establishment of metastatic tumors Recent studies demonstrated that the number of CTCs present in patient blood directly correlate with cancer progression recurrence and survival rate ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant One of the challenges of research in infectious diseases is to find ways to use the increasing knowledge of the mechanisms underlying disease transformation and progression to develop novel therapeutic strategies for diseases such as increasing menace of bacterial infections Targeting specific RNA such as rRNA which are involved in proliferation and survival ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Mass spectrometry based proteomics is an emerging technology that has seen possible applications everywhere The technique can potentially use one drop of our blood to reveal onset and progress of diseases Current Randamp D using plasma serum proteome sample sets however is severely limited by the high complexity and dynamic range of protein concentrations ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The measurement monitoring and use of bioelectric signals has evolved from the measurement of the electrical activity of the heart to encompass tissues ranging from cardiac skeletal and smooth muscles to brain and peripheral nerve tissues Together with this development has been the evolution of specialized equipment to capture and interpret these minute sig ...

At present, CdZnTe is considered the material of choice for efficient, room temperature gamma-radiation detection systems used for the detection and identification of radionuclides. Despite the advances in CdZnTe materials technology during the last decade, the major impediments in the progress of - ray detection technology are the low yield of device quality materials and detectors, and the limit ...

We propose to produce a commercial powerful lightweight debugging tool, called Swat, which will be of use to both supercomputer application programmers and to programmers of cluster- and cloud-based parallel e-commerce and engineering systems and middleware. The tool will be based the STAT stack-trace debugging tool produced jointly by the University of Wisconsin and Lawrence Livermore National La ...

The US Department of Energy has a stated goal to increase the energy efficiency of turbines, and one well recognized method of achieving this is through the use of ceramic thermal barrier coatings (TBCs). However, state of the art zirconia-based TBCs have a temperature limit of about 1200oC, and new TBC materials that can operate at elevated temperatures of 1300oC and above are needed to continue ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an irreversible neurological disease that progressively causes a tremendous toll in disability and societal cost. As our population ages, AD and other memory disorders will become increasingly prevalent. Patients and their families often find themselves lost in a complex web of multiple providers, receiving conflicting recommend ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We have developed a recombinant polypeptide that we have termed Fc-Dimers (Di -mers). This product has potent anti-inflammatory activity in vitro, and we propose to test this reagent in an animal model of autoimmunedisease. We have selected the murine disease, Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis (EAE), a model for human multiple sclerosis (MS). Pathol ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is uniformly fatal once resistance to platinum based therapy (Pt) is observed. Innate resistance is observed in approximately 25% of the nearly 22,000 annual cases of EOC, where the cancer is intrinsically refractory to Pt therapy. The remaining 75% of women have Pt sensitive disease and will respond with remission lasting up to ...