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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Therapeutics is focused on the development of adjuvant systems with desired immune activities for targeted indications The Companyandapos s immune stimulatory adjuvant platform builds on combinatorial use of immune agonists with distinct immune targets and mechanisms of action for the generation of therapeutic immune responses Critical to this platform techno ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There is growing awareness that weakness of muscle is a significant biomedical health issue associated with many different chronic diseases and aging There are a variety of different diseases that affect muscle including muscular dystrophy fibromyalgia cerebral palsy amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and myasthenia gravis each of which carries its own uniqu ...

ABSTRACT Obstructive sleep apnea OSA is the most common type of sleep apnea OSA affects an estimated million adults and of all children in the US OSA results in tiredness depression and fatigue and has several associated common comorbidities It is believed that over of OSA remains undiagnosed The prevalence of OSA increases with age and if untreated increases the risk of ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Problem Lower gastrointestinal bleeding is a significant medical problem in the United States accounting for more than hospital admissions and tens of billions of dollars of healthcare spending annually It is common for bleeding from a single site to stop and restart multiple times The three modalities now used to diagnose and locate gastrointestina ...

Abstract RNA editing is a process in which the genome encoded information is altered in RNA RNA editing is an efficient way to increase RNA complexity thereby fine tuning both gene function and dosage Adenosine to Inosine A to I editing is the most common type of RNA editing known in animals The cellular machinery recognizes inosine as guanosine so A to I editing of codons and splicing sign ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this STTR is to identify novel small molecule compounds targeting the nitrogen respiration pathway of Pseudomonas aeruginosa This pathway is crucial to the pathogenesis of P aeruginosa in vivo but has not yet been exploited for antimicrobial drug discovery There is a clear need for new treatments to combat P aeruginosa infections Antibiotic re ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this Phase II project is to optimize and validate a microfluidic chip based process that automates and shortens the labeling washing and collecting of human blood leukocytes WBCs for flow cytometric analysis of clinically important cell surface and intracellular markers Multi parameter flow cytometry is an increasingly powerful and widely used t ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Bipolar disorder BD is a complex chronic illness characterized by recurrent often dramatic mood changes Self management of BD is an important component of treatment but is likewise complex and can be fraught with difficulties including misunderstanding of the condition and a lack of self awareness Combined with the nationwide shortage of mental healthcare ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There is a critical need for a safe and effective vaccine against HIV Decades of work have been invested in understanding the immune response to infection and different approaches have been taken to develop vaccines that are effective in preventing and treating the disease While effective in animal models none have been as effective in humans The immune ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Aberrant neuronal connectivity is associated with a number of neuropathological and neuropsychiatric diseases disorders Inefficient developmental connectivity misdirected connectivity or disrupted and degenerated connectivity can account for losses of normal neuronal communication and subsequent losses of mental or physical health Altered expression of axon ...