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Future vaccine development should focus on rapid upscale production, long-term and broad protection, and sufficient global distribution to prevent and reduce the impact of many infectious diseases and potential epidemics. Agave BioSystems proposes to develop a novel whole-microorganism vaccine inactivation strategy involving high-throughput screen of extensive radio-protectant matrices and radiati ...

Objectives and Intellectual Merit: The infrastructure of modern civilization is a set of complex systems1 that dynamically interact across multiple layers of abstraction. Researchers from many disciplines2 are designing analytical tools for predicting the global and local behaviors of these complicated, multi-layer networks. Easily usable, available (open source) and inter-operated tools are neede ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant We are pioneering an RNA based switch technology called structurally interacting RNAs sxRNA which utilizes post transcriptional gene regulation as a reporter for miRNA detection Normally RNA binding proteins RBP associate with a andapos stem loop structure to facilitate translation of an upstream coding region by as much as an order of magnitude It is ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant As part of the FDA approval process for novel therapeutic drugs safety screening demonstrating that the new drug does not have deleterious effects on the human cardiac action potential is required Healthy human heart cells are not available for such preclinical drug testing There is currently no consensus on the best experimental approach to provide the most ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This project entails the development of a novel dual component MRI contrast agent formulation for the detecting permeability in the luminal surface of the urinary bladder The purpose of having such a test is ultimately to allow clinicians in certain circumstances to differentially diagnose a chronic non infectious inflammation of the urinary bladder from a ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Traverse Biosciences Inc is a pre clinical stage drug development company working to commercialize new chemical entities which act to resolve inflammatory conditions through pleiotropic host modulation of pathologically unrestrained matrix metalloproteinases MMPs and pro inflammatory cytokines The companyandapos s lead drug candidate TRB N is a propri ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This proposal will assess the quantitative capabilities of surface enhanced Raman scattering SERS detection of cocaine and marijuana metabolites in urine samples Combining low cost instrumentation and novel chemical sensing provides an innovative new approach for diagnosing illicit drug use Current methods use a colorimetric indicator to screen specimens fo ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Pseudouridine is the most abundant post transcriptionally modified nucleoside found in ribonucleic acid RNA Pseudouridine is an enzymatically generated isomer of the canonical base uridine with additional hydrogen bonding capabilities and appears to lead to local structural and biochemical effects within RNAs Pseudouridine has been detected in several type ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant N methyladenosine m A was recently discovered to be a widespread base modification present in thousands of mammalian mRNAs In addition to its prevalence throughout the transcriptome researchers have also revealed that m A is a reversible modification suggesting that dynamic regulation of mRNA methylation is a novel and widespread RNA regulatory mechanism ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This STTR application proposes development of MedicaSafe Inc andapos s Multimodal Analgesic Protection System MAPSafe Built around MedicaSafeandapos s proprietary Medication Therapy Optimization MTO technology MAPSafe will be designed to mitigate the myriad risks associated with prescription opioid use post operatively and throughout recovery after surge ...