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The drug R&D cycle is long and very expensive. In many ways, this status quo can no longer be sustained. One of the reasons for such great cost is that the vast majority of drug candidates are screened out at the stages of animal and human trials. More efficient methods of testing of drugs at the stage of ex-vivo studies, which are substantially less expensive than animal and human testing cyc ...

A new generation of bio-inspired adhesives is under development for controlling the face-seal leakage in respirator masks. While conventional pressure-sensitive adhesives rely on liquid-like fluidity under pressure to adapt to surface roughness, biological adhesion mechanisms employed by gecko, spider and insects rely upon the compliance of a fibrillar array to accommodate surface roughness for ma ...

Development of single use, freeze-dried PCR reagents for use with the Idaho Technology Ruggedized Advanced Pathogen Identification Device (RAPIDT system) or other commercially available real-time PCR devices is proposed. These reagents will have extendedstability at ambient temperature thus allowing sensitive PCR methods to be used in non-laboratory environments for the rapid detection of biologi ...