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Project Summary Atrophic dry age related macular degeneration AMD is the leading cause of severe loss of vision for those over age Dietary supplements containing lutein and zeaxanthin are recommended by the NEI for those at risk of late AMD There has been a corresponding growth in demand for these two xanthophylls Lutein and zeaxanthin are currently sourced from marigolds grown mostl ...

Abstract Pancreatic cancers are devastating diseases with five year survival rate less than Currently there is no effective treatment for advanced disease One major barrier to efficacy of anti tumor therapeutics is the dense desmoplastic stromal response Evidence suggests that cancer associated pancreatic stellate cells CAPaSC produce the stromal collagen The ECM laid down by CAPaSC is c ...

PROJECT SUMMARY We will develop and commercialize to the research community a new class of glycan specific binding reagents that incorporate the recognition function of variable lymphocyte receptors VLRs the antigen receptors of the adaptive immune system of jawless vertebrates lamprey and hagfish Such reagents are essential to detecting localizing quantifying and establishing biological ...

Enzalutamide resistance is a major obstacle in the treatment of metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer mCRPC Recently we developed a small molecule lead compound GH and demonstrated its potent activity against bone metastatic prostate cancer cells In this Phase I STTR application we hypothesize that GH is a novel lead compound with nanomolar potency against enzalutamide resist ...

Space platforms are complex dynamical systems and there are many reasons to model them from ground telescope imagery as well as from space-based sensor platforms. One key motivation is to determine the operational state and configuration of the vehicle. Key questions such as did the solar panels fail to deploy, did the object begin to tumble unexpectedly may be addressed by a sufficiently detaile ...

Innovative Advanced Materials (IAM), Inc., founded by Dr. W. Alan Doolittle, proposes to develop a new generation of bulk synthesis tools operating at significantly higher pressure than current prototype systems which already demonstrate tantalizing material quality and high growth rates with proven alloy and dopant control capability to produce AlGaN substrates with remarkably low cost and high q ...

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 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 ...

Project Summary Abstract While much has been accomplished in managing hyperglycemia morbidity and mortality in patients with type diabetes T D often results from cardiovascular complications Evidence suggests peripheral artery disease and skeletal muscle mitochondrial dysfunction One reason is the lack of reliable tools to characterize skeletal muscle microcirculation and mitochondrial capa ...

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 ...