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Protein manufacturing is of paramount importance to chemical and biological defense applications. Existing protein purification methods primarily rely on synthetic-resin based chromatography, which is time-consuming, labor-intensive, expensive, and consequently, ill-suited for developing rapid countermeasures to chemical and biological threats. To overcome these limitations, the overall goal of th ...

Marous, James R. An Eye Bank Endothelial Cell Counter Abstract Procurement of donor corneal tissue for transplant use is an important social service undertaken by largely underfunded eye banks. Tissue is not only harvested, but must be screened for a myriad of issues that may make the tissue unsuitable for transplant or pose a health risk to the tissue recipient. Donor tissue may be rejected for ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Most clinical assays begin with blood collection in a laboratory setting The Gates foundation and many others have recognized and attempted to deal with the fact that in much of the world clinical testing is done in a primitive setting The luxury of having a phlebotomist to draw blood with a laboratory to prepare serum or plasma for analysis is not universal ...

Safe and efficient ionization and filtration technology compatible to biodefense applications is of paramount importance. Current ionization methods are energy-intensive, costly, prone to ozone generation, or inefficient, and consequently ill-suited for building protection applications. To overcome these limitations, we propose to develop and demonstrate a novel bioaerosol ionization and collectio ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Biologics manufacturing based on cell culture techniques represents a tremendous advance in the pharmaceutical industry The use of biological rather than chemical processes result in unique therapeutics with greater profitability a knowledge based barrier to entry and the ability to develop therapeutics targeted at specific subsets of the population i e p ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant In recent years there has been increased interest throughout the world in the use of proton radiation therapy for treatment of cancer and independent studies project a annual increase in the installed base The replacement of X ray therapy with proton therapy will have substantial long term benefit to patients due to greatly reduced long and short term tox ...

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 ...

Electronic waste (e-waste) is one of the most rapidly growing waste problems worldwide. Improper handling of e-waste results in vast amounts of toxic waste being sent to landfill and leaching into the water supply. Due to these concerns, e-waste recycling is a rapidly growing industry. Unfortunately, most current e-waste recycling processes rely on either manual hand sorting or differential densit ...

525 Solutions will manufacture highly economical and biodegradable uranium-from-seawater sorbents from fishing industry waste, and provide them to government-designated mining companies, at the same time leveraging the governmental funds to create a sustainable chitin products business, enabling economic growth and job creation in both the chitin products and fishing industries.

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant In the absence of effective approved drugs or vaccines vector control remains the only means of intervention for many against mosquito borne diseases This problem grows more complex with the recent establishment of multiple exotic mosquito species and mosquito borne pathogens Furthermore changing climate conditions are predicted to alter the traditional ra ...