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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in the United States and is responsible for more deaths each year than breast prostate colon hepatic renal and skin cancers combined Viewed in economic terms in the United States the value of life lost from lung cancer deaths in the year was more than $ billion which is estimated to rise to more t ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant In an effort to reduce the use of animals for toxicity testing companies have developed in vitro skin models or equivalents to replace the Draize skin irritation test This development has been further pushed by the European Union regulation that has prohibited the use of animals for collecting toxicological data on cosmetic ingredients that began Supply ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The product is a slide coated with silica colloidal crystals to combine protein electrophoresis with matrix assisted laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry MALDI MS detection giving superior performance in both The Phase II proposal will be to develop an instrument for facile application of the slide in proteomics of intat glycoproteins This propos ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant All forms of diabetes are characterized by the death of insulin producing cells In Type diabetes T D this leads to the reliance on exogenous insulin for survival Death of cells is silent it cannot be detected in vivo until it has progressed to such an extent that metabolic function is impaired The loss of cells has only been assessed by functiona ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The identification and quantification of specific proteins in complex samples are critical processes in discovering understanding and ultimately addressing the underlying nature of human health and disease The western blot is a fundamental method used for these processes due to the sensitivity and specificity enabled by combining protein sizing with immuno ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The overall aim of this SBIR program is to develop a surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy SERS based device for point of care analysis of drugs in patient saliva This device will allow immediate assessment of both prescription and illicit drug use by patients with substance related disorders SRDs and provide medical professionals and management with quanti ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Since the first procedure in there has been an explosive growth in transcatheter aortic valve replacement TAVR Up to date more than TAVR had been performed worldwide Despite the increased global experience with TAVR severe adverse events associated with TAVR have been extensively documented including annulus rupture coronary occlusion para ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Some of the most significant therapies that treat disease target nucleic acids Drugs that target nucleic acid include cancer drugs antibiotics and antivirals Combined these classes of drugs have annual sales worldwide of $ billion Antibiotics that target nucleic acids account for $ billion of the $ billion of sales annuall for all antibiotics an ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Lyme disease LD caused by the Ixodes tick borne spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi Bb is the most common vector borne disease in the United States Despite public health preventive measures the annual confirmed case incidence has risen to over the vast majority of which occur in the Northeast Disseminated infection causes disease in the skin heart ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Current testing for Lyme disease is suboptimal because it requires two assay platforms including one with subjective interpretation of results and because it has lower sensitivity in the early stage of the illness Infection with Borrelia burgdorferi the causative agent of Lyme disease is transmitted by the bite of an Ixodid tick and results in uniformly lo ...