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The promise of personalized medicine can be realized in part via point-of-care 3D drug printing, but only if there are reliable quality measures available. Children and seniors may need custom or easy-to-swallow doses, a need now addressed only in a limited way by ad-hoc in-pharmacy compounding. Compliance-targeted enhancements such as flavor and shape choices are particularly important for childr ...

Taurine an essential nutrient for human and animal health naturally occurs in meat and otheranimal products. As we shift to more plant-based food and feed diets taurine must be added asan ingredient or a supplement to maintain healthy taurine levels. Currently three Chinesecompanies produce 85% of the world's taurine supply using a petroleum-based process thatharms humans animals and the environme ...

Kultevat Inc. aims to produce natural rubber from Taraxacum kok-saghyz (TKS) at scale toachieve high quality product at a price point that is attractive to customers in particular to US basedcompanies. To date the economics of growing TKS and extracting rubber from its roots at a pricepoint that is competitive with Hevea rubber has not been demonstrated. During Phase I research anRNAi gene silenci ...

Trees vines and bushes are plagued by pathogens causing over $100B in annual damage.Fungi are of particular concern causing 85% of pathogen-related crop losses. For many fungi likeBotrytis cinerea there are no varieties with natural resistance in its host range. As B. cinerea isestimated to cause over $10B in annual crop losses there is a strong driver for effective controlsolutions especially one ...

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Current PCV2 vaccines stimulate protective immunity to PCV2a and 2b serotypes but reducedprotection against evolving and emerging strains such as PCV2d 2g and 2h. We propose to useImmune Refocusing Technology (IRT) to reduce the immunogenicity of epitopes that stimulatesubtype-restricted immunity and refocus towards more broadly protective epitopes. Our first- generation IRT candidate demonstrated ...

Commercial buildings use 35% of the entire US energy output, and up to a third of that energy is wasted. Rapidly rising fuel costs, increasing concern about climate change, and policy directives from the Biden Administration are all driving the need for increased energy efficiency and the elimination of waste. At the same time, the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically increased public awareness of t ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Title: Developing Pre-Consumer Waste as Low-Cost Cricket Feed for Small Farming Operations PD: Schlafly Sarah Company: Mighty Cricket      Advisor: Morales Ramos Juan A. Institution: USDA-ARS (unfunded in phase I)    Advisor: Rojas Guadalupe M. Institution: USDA-ARS (unfunded in phase I) The goal of this project to develop a s ...

Advance microelectronic systems and defense electronics require high power electronics such as High voltage and high efficiency power diodes. Ultra-wide band gap (UWBG) devices based on GaN, SiC, Diamond, Ga2O3 have attractive electronic and thermal properties that have positioned them to their full potential with offer savings in both energy and cost in high-power, high-temperature electronic dev ...

Field pennycress a plant in the mustard family is emerging as a commercially viable winter covercrop for biofuel and edible oil production for the Midwestern agricultural rotation system becauseof its winter hardiness and high oil content.However pennycress is susceptible to fungal diseases.Under intensive cultivation fungal diseases will be more frequent and pose a major threat topennycress produ ...