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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Atopic dermatitis AD or severe eczema is a very common life long skin disease with of adults in the US requiring systemic therapy Clinical manifestations of AD include multiple inflamed lesions erosions accompanied by lichenification thick leathery skin fibrotic papules and severely dry skin with increased susceptibility to infection A major uncont ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The prevalence of Alzheimerandapos s disease AD is poised to increase exponentially with the growing aging population worldwide In the United States total annual costs of AD care are projected to increase from $ billion in to over $ trillion in Paucity of disease modifying therapies capable of slowing the disease progression is an acute unmet ...

This program will demonstrate how additive manufacturing technologies can be used with reactive and high energy materials to create rapid and flexible fabrication of payload and munitions. Our primary approach to this problem will be to use powder bed binder printing techniques to print reactive structures. The anticipated feedstock will consist of composite particles containing all reactant spe ...

The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world There are over state and federal prisons housing over million prisoners in the United States The demographics of the prison population are shifting Longer sentences and constrained options for early release compound this trend The older adult segment of prison populations has more than tripled since The health ...

While aluminum casing materials provide some enhanced performance and thermal loading to explosive ordinance, their overall effectiveness is highly limited by incomplete combustion and long residence times. In order to reduce these problems, the casing material must be designed to facilitate rapid fragmentation through either specialized casing geometries or greatly refined initial particle sizes. ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Specific targeting of the Ataxia Telangiectasia and Rad related kinase ATR represents an emerging strategy to treat a broad spectrum of cancers most notably those that currently lack effective treatments Suppression of ATR selectively kills cells subjected to oncogenic stress alternative lengthening of telomeres ALT or loss of double strand break DSB repair mechanisms A ...

After a breast conserving therapy histology is often performed to check whether the excised tumor specimen is surrounded by a sufficient amount of normal tissue If a positive margin is identified then a second operation will be performed Currently the re operation rate is which raises a need for intraoperative detection of residual cancers The current intraoperative tools for margin ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Gene correction therapy is one of the most important application directions in regenerative medicine Scientists are exploring various approaches to introduce targeted mutations corrections to pluripotent stem cells PSCs to establish disease models and or to develop therapeutic agents Emerging technologies such as Zinc Finger Nucleases ZFNs Transcription ...

Human respiratory syncytial virus hRSV and human metapneumovirus hMPV are non segmented negative strand viruses NNSV and are the leading causes of acute respiratory tract infections in infants worldwide In addition hRSV is a significant cause of disease in elderly populations and can often be fatal for patients with compromised immune systems Currently no vaccines are available and exis ...

Establish a radiation-aware analysis capability in a commercial EDA design flow that will enable first-pass success in radiation-hardened by design (RHBD) for DoD ASICs in much the same way that existing EDA design suites ensure first pass functionality and performance success of complex ASICs destined for commercial applications. Layout-aware, calibrated single-event radiation models that captur ...