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Influenza A viruses belong to the orthomyxoviridae family with a negative sense segmented RNA genome which can cause seasonal or pandemic flu with high morbidity and significant mortality Vaccination is the most prevalent prophylactic means for controlling influenza infections However an effective vaccine usually takes at least months to develop for the circulating strains Furthermore vac ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Drug resistant bacteria such as MRSA and airborne transmitted microbes such as influenza and TB together present major health issues both in the developed and the developing world with major health care and economic consequences Recent research from Columbia University Medical Center demonstrated that single wavelength far UVC photons can kill bacteria a ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Type diabetes T D is a chronic disease caused by the autoimmune destruction of the insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas Current treatment options for T D are severely limited All patients diagnosed with T DM are placed on life long insulin therapy and the current standard of care for adult patients with T DM is intensive diabetes therapy to avoid ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The drug development pipeline is plagued by unacceptable rates of attrition due in large part to toxicities that are not identified in pre clincal stages of development The ability to de risk lead compounds during pre clinical development with advanced andquot organoid on a chipandquot technologies show tremendous promise Chemotherapeutics in particular whi ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Therapeutics based on nucleic acids NA promise to revolutionize treatment of multiple diseases but their widespread use is currently limited by the lack of efficient delivery methods We have recently developed a new NA delivery platform based on polymeric CXCR inhibitors PCX suitable as dual function systems for simultaneous NA delivery and inhibition of ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Insomnia of sufficient clinical severity to meet diagnostic criteria is present in approximately of older adults nearly million individuals n the US alone If left untreated it can lead to increased rates of depression cognitive impairment and cardiovascular disease Treatment relies on pharmacotherapy such as sedative hypnotic therapy which is ass ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Low level tumor associated somatic DNA mutations can have profound implications for development of metastasis prognosis choice of treatment follow up or early cancer detection Unless they are effectively detected these low level mutations can misinform patient management decisions or become missed opportunities for personalized medicine Widely used tech ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to HIV and account for one quarter of all new infections each year Most new infections among adolescents occur among young men who have sex with men YMSM Transmission of HIV can be virtually eliminated by treatment but testing rates are low and a significant proportion of YMSM are unaware of their HIV status P ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The Cell SafeTM is a fundamentally new approach in replacement of dysfunctional insulin producing cells in patients with diabetes by transplantation of new islets in a three dimensional scaffold embedded in a highly compatible bioengineered perfusion system that continuously supplies tissue fluid blood ultrafiltrate so that the cells ae protected from immun ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Koronis Biomedical Technologies KBT proposes to develop a novel omnidirectional low power miniaturized hearing aid telecoil replacement module TCRM based on tunneling magnetoresistance TMR technology It has been reported that million Americans have hearing loss Hearing loss affects in Americans and in households Modern telecoils assist ...