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Industrial Microbes is developing a green fermentation platform to replace carbon-emitting petrochemical production with newer methods that build chemicals out of methane and carbon dioxide.Chemical production is a major source of carbon pollution, responsible for 18% of direct industrialemissions. Our innovation is an engineered microbe that can consume carbon dioxide and methane and produce a ch ...

Over 50 million Indian households cook on a bio-mass fire and have unreliable or no electricity but are anxious to purchase an affordable power stove which will provide on-demand power and lighting to their homes. Annually, projected sales of the power stove could save sixteen million trees, reduce cooking fire particulates by 90%, reduce the two million premature deaths caused from indoor air pol ...

Discharge of nutrients (e.g. phosphorus and ammonia) to surface waters can cause eutrophication and the formation of toxic algal blooms, threatening human health and the environment. However, current phosphorus treatment technologies such as chemical precipitation and conventional biological systems can be costly and ineffective to reliably achieve impending effluent regulatory limits of

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Hazardous compounds in waters and soils are subject to a complex dynamic web of interactions among physical chemical and biological constituents in the natural environment Computational modeling has been proven indispensable to hazardous substances remediation particularly integrated modeling of pollutant hydrogeological fate and transport For the first t ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Osteoclasts OC are key mediators of erosive bone diseases including tumor associated osteolytic lesions as well as rheumatoid arthritis RA other forms of arthritis and osteoporosis Indeed OC are the only cells known to degrade bone Osteoclastogenesis begins with differentiation of monocytes into OC precursor cells OCP which subsequently different ...

Abstract Alzheimerandapos s disease AD is the most common dementia in the elderly Currently there is no cure for the disease Pathologically AD is characterized by the presence of extracellular amyloid A plaques and intracellular tau neurofibrillary tangles in patientandapos s brain Although being vigorously pursued multiple attempts targeting on A generation clearance have been fail ...

Genben Lifesciences dba GB HealthWatch is a digital health and nutritional genomics company Our mission is to help fight common diet and lifestyle related chronic diseases with precision nutrition and advanced mobile technologies Our company developed the HealthWatch mobile app for tracking dietary intake physical activity and health related symptoms This mobile app has received excell ...

SMALL MOLECULE THERAPEUTICS FOR ALZHEIMERandapos S DISEASE SUMMARY Alzheimerandapos s disease AD is a progressive and fatal neurological disorder that affects approximately one tenth of the population over the age of There is currently no cure for the disease The pathological hallmarks of the disease include the formation and accumulation in the brain of amyloid A Earlier therapeut ...

Project Summary In approximately million Americans with diabetes were living with the accompanying condition diabetic retinopathy which is the largest cause of blindness among working age individuals in the United States During the progression of DR ischemic neuronal cells in the retina begin to express vascular endothelial growth factor A VEGF A leading to macular edema and retinal ...