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ABSTRACT Neurodegenerative disordersincluding amyotrophic lateral sclerosisALSFriedreichandapos s ataxiaFAmultiple sclerosisMSDuchenne muscular dystrophyDMDAlzheimer s diseaseADParkinson s diseasePDand Huntington s diseaseHDare characterized by heterogeneous disease progressionEfforts to identify responder subgroups may uncover subgroups that are more homogeneous in disease related features than t ...

Outbreaks have become a significant public threat in hospitalsimpacting both patient lives and creating a financial burdenWith the increasing rise in antibiotic resistancenew interventions are urgently needed to contain ongoing outbreaksRecent studies have confirmed that whole genome sequencingWGSis able to identity unique mutations within each outbreak strainwhich can then be utilized to establis ...

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PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT The human immune response to HIVis complex with the virus demonstrating remarkable evasion mechanismsSignificant progress has recently been made in HIV vaccine development based on early stage clinical trials and subsequent investigations into the nature of protective immunitySeveral promising messenger RNAmRNAbased HIV vaccines that target the HIV envelope proteinEnvhave ...

With the combined effects of a rapidly growing elderly population and advances in medicaltechnology, the need for decision making about appropriate medical treatments for elderly individualshas increased. Education about advance directives, legal documents which identify patients' decisionsregarding medical treatments, has not been systematically directed toward elderly adults residing in thecommu ...

SummarySystemic lupus erythematosusSLEor lupus is an autoimmune disease that impacts more thanmillion people worldwideincludingmillion AmericansNearlyof these patients will develop lupus nephritiswhich can cause kidney failureAs a resultits financial burden to individual patient can reach $yearmuch higher than many other diseases because of kidney transplantationAlthough early treatment of lupus n ...

ABSTRACT Chronic perforations of the tympanic membraneTMaffect overpatients in the United States annuallyoften stemming from ventilation tubes inserted in the TM to drain fluid from middle ear infectionsLeft untreatedthese TM perforations can lead to significant morbidities that include recurrent ear infectionconductive and sensorineural hearing lossmastoid bone infectionand cholesteatoma developm ...

Therapeutic antibodies have had a profound impact on treatment of many types of cancer and autoimmune diseasesAs a resultfive of the top ten best selling drugs ofwere therapeutic antibodiesMore than seventy therapeutic antibodies have been approvedand over six hundred antibody based products are in clinical developmentHoweverantibodies are extremely expensive to produceand large amounts of antibod ...

Project SummaryCurrentlytoxicology studies require a large number of animal testing to identify better and safer drug candidatesIn an attempt to reduce the use of large animals in pharmaceutical industrythere is a need to bridge the gap between the conventional in vitro cell based assay and the non human animal studiesRecentlythreedimensional models are gaining momentum and replacing conventionalD ...