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DESCRIPTION (Provided by Applicant): Work performed during the Phase I of this project has demonstrated that formamide induces selective denaturation of DNA in apoptotic cells. This novel effect of formamide on the stability of apoptotic DNA combined with the detection of denatured DNA with monoclonal antibody (MAb)against single-stranded DNA, has made it possi ...

DESCRIPTION (Provided by Applicant): Work performed during the Phase I of this project has demonstrated that formamide induces selective denaturation of DNA in apoptotic cells. This novel effect of formamide on the stability of apoptotic DNA combined with the detection of denatured DNA with monoclonal antibody (MAb)against single-stranded DNA, has made it possi ...

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's abstract): Psoriasis is a common, inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by hyper-proliferation of keratinocytes. A variety of antipsoriatic therapies are available, however, due to problems with side effects and variability in clinical response, intense clinical and commercial interest remains in the development of new treatments. Thiaz ...

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's abstract): Psoriasis is a common, inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by hyper-proliferation of keratinocytes. A variety of antipsoriatic therapies are available, however, due to problems with side effects and variability in clinical response, intense clinical and commercial interest remains in the development of new treatments. Thiaz ...

DESCRIPTION (Verbatim from Applicant): We will develop biomimetic materials for repair and orthoplasty of the orbit and surrounding bony structures. These scaffolds will incorporate a cell binding peptide related to collagen which will allow them to serve as collagen-like anchorages for cells. These Collagen Surrogate Matrices (CSM) will facilitate haptotactic migrati ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Identifying amino acid residues of a protein that form the binding site for a drug, or that are present at the interface in a protein-protein complex are difficult to identify from the crystal structures of the individual partner proteins. Carta Proteomics is committed to the premise that monitoring isotope exchange in ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A neural stem cell is a single cell with the ability to proliferate, to self-renew over the lifetime of the organism, to generate a large number of clonally-related progeny and to replace limited numbers of neural cells in the adult brain. Recently, several research teams have reported that stem cells obtained from human bone marro ...

DESCRIPTION: (Investigator's abstract) Thrombin bound to fibrin, the vessel wall and/or to extracorporeal surfaces is resistant to inhibition by heparin/antithrombin Ill (HAT). Intimatan, a dermatan disulfate semi-synthetically enriched in iduronic acid-N-acetyt-O-gafactosamine 4,6-O-disulfate, mediates the sustained inhibition of surfac ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The most commonly used statistical methods for the design and analysis of cancer clinical trials today rely heavily on the idea of proportional hazards or its generalizations; i.e., that the important differences between treatments are reflected in the differences between failure rates. Implicit in the use of these methods is the assumptio ...

The recent explosion of biological information now available to researchers at all levels of biological investigation has resulted in-part from high-throughput technologies to sequence genes and proteins, and to determine their expression patterns, in an attempt to capture the algorithmic complexity of biological functions. Collectively, this data has begun to enable the study of cells as living s ...