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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There are approximately million cases of dengue fever each year with billion people at risk mostly in low income countries There are four serotypes of dengue fever virus DENV and in its uncomplicated form the disease is worthy of its indigenous name andquot break bone feverandquot An individual may suffer sequential infections with multiple DE ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Aspergillosis is a severe fungal infection that most frequently involves the lungs in people who have immune deficiency caused by cancer chemotherapy and or transplantation Although good drugs are available establishing a diagnosis is difficult and late treatment has limited our progress in decreasing morbidity and mortality We observed that Aspergillus pol ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The greatest challenge to auditory communication is background noise especially in the complex acoustic environments that are experienced in daily life This project proposes to develop a novel speech enhancement algorithm that is robust in the presence of everyday environmental interference The algorithm is inspired by recent findings related to the neural c ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This phase project has as its overall objectives to design engineer optimize and implement a novel genetically encoded fluorescent drug sensor FDS based on F rster Resonance Energy Transfer FRET by exploiting conformational rearrangements induced by drug interactions with human serum albumin SA SA is uniquely suited for a general drug sensor beca ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Most samples of chemical interest are complex mixtures making the usual combination of chromatography with mass spectrometry MS a natural choice However the increased demand for chemical analysis by mass spectrometry in many areas of science makes it imperative to increase efficiency of analysis by minimizing sample workup and overall analysis time which ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The increasing output of new integral membrane protein IMP structures is partially due to the availability of an increasing number of chemical variables such as detergents detergent like molecules lipids and solubilizing stabilizing additives It is clear that specific combinations and concentrations of these different variables are often necessary to impr ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The groundbreaking discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells iPSCs has opened a new page for developing personalized cell based therapies against various devastating human diseases without ethical concerns of using human embryonic stem cells However the future clinical applications of iPSCs remain in doubt due to potential risks of undesired genomic alter ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Mucormycosis most commonly caused by Rhizopus oryzae is a life threatening infection that occurs in patients immunocompromised by diabetic ketoacidosis DKA neutropenia corticosteroid use and or increased serum iron Because of the rising prevalence of these risk factors the incidence of mucormycosis has risen Despite disfiguring surgery and aggressive ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world The demographics of the prison population are shifting In fact the number of sentenced state and federal prisoners age or older grew at times the rate of the overall prison population from The health status of aging inmates does not mirror the free world population In fac ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This application for a Fast Track STTR award represents a collaboration between Natural Pharmacia International Inc NPI and McLean Hospital to initiate steps toward commercializing a isoflavone botanical product for treating alcoholism Excessive use of alcohol accounts for much of the public health burden related to alcohol use disorders including fetal a ...