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The goal of this Phase I STTR grant proposal is to stabilize live attenuated influenza vaccine LAIV using a temporary silica coating that is removed in vivo In so doing we will establish a broader technology to eliminate the cold chain required for transport of heat and cold labile vaccines Many vaccines are unstable under ambient environmental conditions Currently vaccines are either stabil ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Acute lung injury (ALI) and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) are characterized by a rapid and severe respiratory failure, arising after clinical events including major surgery, trauma, multiple transfusions and sepsis. ALI/ARDS have an associated mortality of 40-80% and current pharmacological modalities have been unsuccessful in decreasing mortality. ...

Antiretroviral therapy has become a reality in resource limited settings thanks to entities such as PEFAR and the Global Fund However contrary to the therapeutic choice flexibility in developed countries all patients go on reverse transcriptase inhibitor RTI based first line regimens with more expensive protease and integrase inhibitor based regimens being reserved as second line therapy for ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Evidence and theory indicate that laboratory measures of impairment and function do not predict how older adults actually function in daily life. Thomas Glass (1998), for example, reports marked differences between functional activities that community residents can do and do do in survey data from the MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging. Therefore, subst ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The tumor suppressor Adenomatous Polyposis Coli APC directs degradation of catenin a central signaling protein in the WNT pathway Germline loss of function mutations in APC activate WNT signaling and underlie the inherited colorectal cancer predisposition syndrome Familial Adenomatous Polyposis FAP an orphan disease while somatic mutations lead to spo ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Nonlinear optical microscopy techniques (such as two-photon florescence) are being used to acquire volumetric (i.e. three dimensional) images that probe several hundred microns into scattering tissue. These techniques are being combined with fast acquisition schemes to allow imaging of live, moving specimens at high NA. This combination allows for high-resoluti ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant To many notably Craig Venter andquot synthetic biologyandquot means simply andquot synthesizing large amounts of DNAandquot This type of synthetic biology actually began in the andapos s when Caruthers introduced a phosphoramidite based solid phase DNA synthesis architecture This allowed ICI and the Benner group to synthesize complete genes encoding ...

Project Summary Abstract The advent of the Zika virusZIKVepidemic around the world has and will cause problems for the correct diagnosis of flavivirus infectionsFor many yearsDENV serological diagnosis was relatively straightforwardHoweverafter the recent ZIKV epidemiccross reactive antibodiesAbsgenerated after ZIKV infection will bind to DENV even if the patient has never had DENVThe only FDA app ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Complete achromatopsia is an autosomal recessive inherited congenital disorder of retinal cone photoreceptors Patients with complete achromatopsia experience extreme light sensitivity and daytime blindness and best visual acuity under non bright light conditions is usually or worse and generally stable over time In addition to poor acuity hypersensit ...

ABSTRACT This STTR Phase I resubmission describes a small deceptively simple portable device called Speed Bumps that rapidly quantifies the sensation of flutter on the feet toes or fingers in micrometer m units Flutter frequency is to Hz which is below the approximate lower vibration range of to Hz This high sensitivity device is designed to differentiate the small variati ...