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Terrorist use of radioactive nuclear materials via nuclear and/or radiological dispersion devices (dirty bombs) is a serious threat. Therefore, it is critical to detect the proliferation of nuclear material. Critical challenges facing this objective include: (a) high sensitivity detection of signature emissions (e.g., gamma rays) from common radioactive isotopes behind shielding, and (b) cost-effe ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The global contraceptives market was valued at $ billion in and is expected to grow at a CAGR of from to to reach an estimated value of $ billion in An important high impact driver of this market is the prevalence of unintended pregnancies In the US there are million unintended pregnancies annually through inconsistent or ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis Parkinsonandapos s disease dementia spina bifida diabetes stroke and spinal cord injury SCI can result in loss of voluntary control over bladder and bowel function often producing both incontinence and retention of urine and stools in the same patient This has a profound impact on the mental and phy ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The ultimate goal of this project is to market an electromechanical and software system for Blind and Low Vision B LV individuals that will enable interactive creation communication and printing of Braille annotated tactile graphics In school at home and in the workplace virtually everyone needs to be able to produce a wide variety of freehand sketches ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantBreast cancer is the most common malignancy in women living in the USwith more thannew cases diagnosed each yearand an estimatedwomen dying from the disease inGreater thanof these diagnoses are classified as triple negative breast cancerTNBCwhich is considered among the most aggressive breast cancer sub typeswith the worst prognosisTNBC is difficult to treat because ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The increasing output of new integral membrane protein IMP structures is partially due to the availability of an increasing number of chemical variables such as detergents detergent like molecules lipids and solubilizing stabilizing additives It is clear that specific combinations and concentrations of these different variables are often necessary to impr ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The long term objective of this project study is to develop a monoclonal antibody that inhibits the progression of diabetic retinopathy Insulin like growth factor I IGF I has been implicated in both endothelial dysfunction as well as the proliferative phase of the disease but IGF I concentrations in retina are not increased During hyperglycemia IGF I activa ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Antisense and siRNA oligonucleotides offer the promise of highly precise manipulation of genes involved in disease pathogenesis However despite the investment of enormous resources that promise has been fulfilled to only a limited degree A key impediment to oligonucleotide based therapeutics is the difficulty in delivering these large highly polar molecule ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This Small Business Technology Transfer STTR Phase I project proposes to develop autonomously bioluminescent human stem cells for continuous reagent free and real time bioimaging to address the National Institutes of Healthandapos s request for new techniques for non invasive long term tracking of stem cell survivability engraftment and migration followi ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant We propose to bring to market a novel regenerative medicine based therapy for fecal incontinence FI FI is the recurrent uncontrolled passage of fecal material The Internal Anal Sphincter IAS is responsible for maintaining anorectal continence Function of the IAS is dependent upon the neuromuscular integrity of both the smooth muscle and the intrinsic en ...