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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Delays in FDA drug approval are measured in lost lives (estimated to be hundreds of thousands over the last few decades) and increased costs to U.S. citizens for drugs that are eventually approved. One factor contributing to the delay in drug approvals is the widespread use of time-consuming and error-prone manual methods to deliver medical images (i.e. CT, MR, ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The morbidity and mortality due to cardiovascular disease is attributed to the lack of significant replicative potential of adult mammalian cardiomyocytes. Thus myocyte loss in response to ischemic injury typically results in scar formation and a decline of cardiac function that is usually irreversible. The cessation of myocyte proliferation is associated with ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Cloning of hot and cold thermal receptors has advanced the understanding of the molecular basis of thermal sensation. Two (2) important remaining questions to be addressed are the identification of additional thermal receptor genes and the elucidation of the mechanism(s) that enable the receptor proteins to alter gating properties in response to changes in temp ...

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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of the proposal is to develop an automated data acquisition system for non-invasive quantitative cancer detection, screening, and monitoring, based on highly sensitive low volume real time PCR technique and capillary electrophoresis, apply this system for quantitative analysis of the telomerase activity and gene expression in single cancer ce ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Circulatory, hypoxemic or traumatic arrest claims an estimated 350,000 lives per year in the United States accounting for almost 15% of all deaths. Circulatory, hypoxemic, or traumatic arrests result in whole-body ischemia, most significantly global cerebral ischemia. Brain cells die when they no longer receive oxygen and nutrients from the blood. Because cereb ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We will improve the radio component of an inexpensive, miniature battery-operated digital telemetric system (DT) for new applications in neuroscience. DT exploits commercially available digital audio integrated circuits and protocols to record, digitize, and transmit bioelectric signals without wires. Phase 1 is based on a prototype designed to record the activ ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Microsomal triglyceride transfer protein (MTP) is essential for apoB-lipoprotein assembly. MTP is typically studied using a multi-step radiolabel assay. Recently, we have developed a simple fluorescence assay for MTP. However, this assay needs special equipment and expertise in lipid biochemistry. Our aim is to simplify the assay and commercialize it in the for ...

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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Analysis of DNA is important in many applications including forensics, diagnostic genetic testing and biomedical research. Genomic DNA analysis uses chemical amplification methods such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of a target sequence to increase the amount of the genetic fragment under study. This is essential for sequencing which promises ...