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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Glycans have several distinct properties that make their development as disease biomarkers appealing Firstly their location on cell surfaces makes them the first point of contact for cellular interactions and thus they are crucial in the control of normal metabolic processes and conversely they function as pathogen adhesion receptors Secondly specific gl ...

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 The ability to accurately quantitate the glycan chains attached to glycoproteins has wide ranging implications Numerous studies over the past years have demonstrated that abnormal glycosylation occurs in virtually all types of human cancers and demonstrate the potential of using glycan markers in either a diagnostic or a prognostic manner The glycosylatio ...

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 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 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 ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Ocular graft versus host disease O GVHD is a particularly severe and debilitating complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation HSCT O GVHD develops in of patients with chronic GVHD Currently Restasis cyclosporine A is the only FDA approved prescription topical medication to treat O GVHD In Restasis had sales o ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Epitranscriptomics explores levels and evolution of RNA modifications as a response from intra and inter cellular stimuli These modifications and the levels at which they are present are emerging as important regulators of biological processes Perturbations such as chemical toxicants exposure can alter the patterns of specific modifications on RNA sub types ...