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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a significant need for novel HIV therapies given the emergence of viruses resistant to existing drug regimens. The Rev-RRE protein-RNA interaction in HIV plays an essential role in the transport of viral mRNA from the nucleus to the cytoplasm where it can be translated or packaged. In preliminary work, two distinct assays targeting the HIV Rev protein ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The general goal of this proposal is to assemble directed mutant gene sets quickly, cheaply, easily, and reliably. Mutant gene sets can share sub-assemblies, yielding savings of time, cost, and effort not possible if designed and assembled all as single genes. The approach is to build upon experience gained in Phase I, to extend and generalize methods of DNA de ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Reducing protein deposition events is essential for slowing the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD), especially A 1-42 peptide oligomers that accumulate inside and outside neurons and cause functional compromise. Finding a strategy to reduce A oligomeric assemblies is widely thought to be the key objective for treating AD. Accumulation of A peptides is on ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objectives of this research project are to design and develop safe and efficient multifunctional delivery systems for systemic and target-specific delivery of small interfering RNA (siRNA) to treat human diseases with RNA interference (RNAi). RNAi is a natural mechanism for gene silencing and has a great potential to treat human disease by turning off speci ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The principal aim of this project is to develop a resource library of very high-resolution computer models and imaging data sets of human skulls. This skull database project, which builds upon and is an extension of the Tooth Atlas project, will be the first phase of a complete, whole body, osteology library. As the imaging and computer technology advances, th ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Eliminating racial disparities in health is a top priority public health goal. African Americans have worse health outcomes and receive worse quality of care for a wide range of diseases, but addressing all of these various disparities in health and health care is not feasible. Instead, we must make judicious use of limited resources and target those aspects of ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): SciVee Inc.'s major product is a Web 2.0 resource that can be found as http://www.scivee.tv and is a YouTube for scientists but much more, as will be outlined subsequently. SciVee represents a potentially exciting and significant enhancement in scholarly communication. SciVee aggregates multimedia content (video, podcasts, text and figures) on topics of scienti ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Protein glycosylation plays very important roles in biological processes. However, detecting and differentiating such modifications rapidly is not a trivial issue. Therefore, developing novel tools that allow for the rapid detection of glycosylation patterns is of tremendous importance to the field of glycomics. In this application, we propose to develop a nove ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Microarrays have become indispensable tools in research and medicine. DNA microarrays are established as research tools, and they are expected to grow into clinical diagnostics. Higher sensitivity would advance this transition, while also benefiting research. Proteins report more directly on the biology than does DNA or mRNA, protein microarrays have now become ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A common challenge in the analysis of genomics data is trying to understand the underlying phenomenon in the context of all complex interactions on various regulatory pathways. Currently, a statistical approach is universally used to identify the most relevant pathways in a given experiment. This approach only considers the set of genes present on each pathway ...