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This proposal details the development of UroSeqS as a genetic cytology test to extend the utility of routinely collected urine specimens to the detection of recurrent bladder cancer UroSeqS is a genetic cytology assay that achieves sensitivity and specificity through identifying DNA mutations causative of cancer from routinely collected clinical specimens An innovative approach is used toanalyz ...

Abstract Antibacterial resistance is a global public health crisis Antibiotic resistant Clostridium difficile is responsible for more than deaths in US each year and the infection represents an urgent threat to public health worldwide Of most concern is that the incidence of C difficile infection CDI and disease severity is rapidly increasing in recent years due to the emergence of hy ...

ABSTRACT To combat multidrug resistant bacterial infections novel classes of antibiotics with new mechanisms of action are desperately required Genome mining for novel natural products is quickly replacing traditional approaches to antibiotic discovery Warp Drive Bio has sequenced over actinomycete strain genomes from diverse sources worldwide and our proprietary genomic database conta ...

Project Summary Production of HIV envelope protein Env trimeric gp cleaved to gp gp for clinical studies is a critical objective for vaccine development Its conformational plasticity which allows it to adopt multiple conformational states important for function often makes its expression and purification very difficult Our recent work shows a route for overcoming this probl ...

Globally an estimated of the human population is infected with HSV including andgt of the U S adult population Genital herpes is associated with an increased risk of HIV acquisition and transmission of HSV infection can cause neonatal herpes with high infant mortality HSV infection in the adult population has increased substantially in the past two decades despite the availabil ...

In the era of growing antibiotic resistancelife threatening infections with several bacterial pathogens are cause for major concernApproved vaccines exist only for a handful of bacterial pathogensEven when a vaccine is available invasive bacterial diseases can occur due to lack of serotype coveragepoor vaccine response among vaccinated populationsor because many simply don t get vaccinatedThusinno ...

Abstract Natural products have outstanding pharmaceutical pedigree approximately of FDA approved small molecule drugs are derived from plant bacterial or fungal sources To discover new natural products Warp Drive Bio has assembled an enormous proprietary and searchable database of microbial genomes and biosynthetic gene clusters To date our database comprises genomes sequenced ...

ABSTRACT Recombinant adeno associated virusrAAVis a promising gene delivery vector for therapeutic and vaccine applicationsbut its low transduction efficacy currently limits its utilityThe primary reasons for low transduction efficacy are as followsiinefficient trafficking of the rAAV genome to the nucleusiiinefficient host cell mediated synthesis of double stranded DNA from the single stranded ge ...

Photodynamic Therapy PDT is a promising modality for cancer treatment Oxygen molecules in the metastable singlet delta state O are believed to be the species that destroys cancerous cells during PDT Despite the benefit of targeted PDT that kills tumors selectively with minimum effect on surrounding healthy tissues at the present time it is difficult if not impossible to predict the res ...

ABSTRACT A primary challenge in ovarian cancer is preventing tumor recurrence in patients following a resection debulking procedure year survival rate andlt Intraperitoneal IP administration of chemotherapy most notably paclitaxel can improve patient outcomes and prevent local tumor recurrence the principal deterrent to long term survival However despite these modest improvement ...