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Project Summary Abstract Despite mandatory use of hand sanitizer on cruise ships there are reported cruise ship onboard norovirus outbreaks in exceeded the number of norovirus outbreaks outbreaks onboard cruise ships in One of the problems of currently available alcohol based hand sanitizer is that alcohol evaporates in less than seconds after each application to a surface ...

Metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer CRPC PCa accounts for of PCa deaths and is associated with skeletal metastases CRPC affects patients differently making this disease difficult for physicians to provide standardized treatments with similar outcomes Docetaxel can prolong the overall survival in patients with metastatic CRPC but current therapies do not provide a cure Doce ...

Abstract The liver is the most common organ for metastasis of various cancersincluding pancreaticovariancolorectalgastric cancers and melanomaUveal melanoma metastasizes inof patients and upon metastasis targets the liver inof these casesThe most common primary malignant liver cancer worldwide is hepatocellular carcinomaHCCThe use of blind liver biopsy as a diagnostic tool for liver cancer has man ...

PROJECT SUMMARY To advance microbiome brain studies the general goals of this collaborative proposal are to provide services to research community by engineering probiotics e g E coli Nissle EcN Bifidobacteria longum Lactobacillus plantarum to biosynthesize various naturally occurring chemicals as prebiotic probiotic conjugates which will be marketed as important laboratory agents ...

Project Summary Abstract The two major obstacles to progress in glycomics relative to proteomics and genomics are the lack of simple robust and automated methods for determining glycan structures and for synthesis of glycans The net result of this situation is an overall lack of defined glycans for use in functional studies and for use as standards in structural analysis Significant effort has ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Improving STEM focused curriculum is a primary objective of the current U S administration and is crucial for ensuring that upcoming generations receive the training and skills necessary to compete in the existing global economy To that end there is an urgent need for additional effective teaching tools able to reach a generation that requires instant access to information and a ...

Project Summary OC Go Facilitating fidelity and dissemination of evidence based treatment for childhood OCD via an interactive crowd sourced patient provider tool The long term objective of this project is to leverage mobile technologies and crowdsourcing to create a new paradigm of evidence based treatment delivery and dissemination as current methods are often insufficient The project seeks ...

Advanced approaches for genetic or epigenetic modification of embryonic stemEScellsincluding TALENZFNor CRISPR catalyzed genetic modifications or modulation of gene expression via small RNAssynthetic mRNAsor recombinant transcription factorshave revolutionized our ability to modify the cells from which novel mouse lines are producedIn contrastprocedures for utilizing these cells within the context ...

This proposal aims to develop a polymer hydrogel strategy that can be used to improve the clinical care of patients receiving brachytherapy for gynecological cancers The biocompatible hydrogel will form in situ after being injected into the vaginal space and later removed by instillation of water to soften the hydrogel for easy extraction This Phase I proposal focuses on optimizing the polymer ...

Project Summary Glioblastoma GBM is one of the most lethal incurable human diseases Even with aggressive therapies including surgical resection followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy using temozolomide TMZ the median survival for GBM patients is only months In fact GBM cancer cells are highly infiltrative and comprise a sub population of glioma stem cells GSCs with tumorigenic pro ...