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Testing Bio Sole biosensor as a wearable technology to quantify BAC in real time

lnterleukinILand granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factorGM CSFare endogenous immune activatorsEarlier studies using soluble ILand GM CSF as vaccine adjuvants were unsuccessful due to toxicity or suboptimal responseWe developed versions of ILand GM CSF with a glycosylated phosphatidylinositolGPIanchor added at the carboxyl terminusallowing incorporation into lipid bilayers such as in influ ...

Tuberculosis is a persistent infectious disease that threatens the health of people and numerous mammalian species throughout the worldMonitoring of Mycobacterium tuberculosisMtbinfections in animal models has often relied on host mortalitybacterial loadsand qualitative assessment of pathology at necropsyThese are blunt toolslargely unrelated to the markers used for diagnosis and epidemiological s ...

Clonogenic assays measure the ability of single cells to proliferate and form a colonyThis process approximates closely the regrowth and recurrence of tumors after treatment with radiation or chemotherapyproviding an assay to screen for drugs that block this processYetclonogenic assays are labor intensive and too cumbersome for high throughout screeningHTSof compound librariesHere we propose to de ...

Besides surgeryradiotherapy is the most effective treatment modality for localized prostate cancerThe success of radiotherapy stems from the exploit of a therapeutic window in tumor response and normal tissue tolerance which maximizes the chance of sterilizing the tumor while sparing the surrounding normal tissue from severe damageThis requires an accurate and individualized radiation dose distrib ...

Project SummaryAbstract There is an urgent need of bioinformatic tools for mining glycan array data in order to accurately and statistically study the interactions between cell surface glycans and glycan binding proteinsWe propose here to develop a software and hardware integrated system for the interpretation of glycan array dataThe problem with existing glycan array data mining tools is that the ...

Personal Mercury Monitor for Exposure Measurements Project Summary/AbstractWorkers in the oil and natural gas industry are vulnerable to exposure to toxic mercury (Hg) vapor as a result of routine inspection and maintenance of equipment such as compressors and other process equipment that concentrate species of low volatility over time. Exposure of workers to elemental mercury vapor is of concern ...

AbstractNorovirus is the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis in the United States, associated annually with 19-21 million illnesses, 56,000-71,000 hospitalizations and 570-800 deaths (US CDC, Overview about Norovirus). Norovirus is one of the nonenveloped viruses that are resistant to alcohol sanitization. According to US CDC Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Norovirus Gastroente ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Recent advances in clinical gene therapy highlight the need for improved lentiviral vectorLVand adenoassociated viralAAVvector manufacture and utilization efficiencies for enhanced therapeutics outcomesExpression Therapeutics in collaboration with Emory University are developing a microfluidicFluidictechnology based solution that overcomes the mass transport and diffusion ...

Project SummaryThe D Dimer assay is the current diagnostic standard to exclude patients of VTE due to its high sensitivityHoweverD Dimer levels are commonly elevated in patients without thromboembolismleading to poor specificity and poor positive predictive valuePPVDue to the lack of a robust diagnostic tool for VTEwe propose a novel advancement upon current DDimer testing which improves specifici ...