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PROJECT SUMMARY Glycans play crucial roles in nearly every aspect of biological processes, and their distinct properties make them appealing as disease biomarker targets. However, due to their highly branched and variably linked nature, glycans pose a challenge for detection, purification, and structural analysis. Although advanced analytical techniques and instrumentation have been developed that ...

Perinatal brain injury resulting in mental retardation and cerebral palsy is the most severe disability in children and affects 40-148 in preterm and 1–2/1000 in full term infants. This places a huge burden on society, emphasizing the critical need for improved prevention/treatment strategies to decrease perinatal brain injury. Hypothermia (HT) is the only FDA approved therapy to attenuate brain ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Multiple myeloma (MM), a malignancy of plasma cells (PCs), is responsible for over 12,500 deaths in the US and over 117,000 deaths worldwide annually. Over 91,000 individuals in the US and over 300,000 worldwide currently live with MM. In spite of major therapeutic advances in the past two decades, MM remains incurable and most MM patients succumb to the underlying malignancy. Rece ...

PROJECT SUMMARY During the production of therapeutic biologicals, glycosylation has been identified as a critical quality attribute (CQA) that must be carefully monitored to ensure that the desired protein stability, immunogenicity, antibody effector function, pharmacological safety and potency, and serum half-life are consistently obtained. Many factors can affect the composition of the glycan ch ...

Project Summary Abstract The MapHabit System (MHS) is our neuroscience-based interactive care management platform that utilizes a patented visual mapping system supported by smart devices to improve cognition and reinforce routine habits in individuals living with AD/ADRD. The MHS approach relies on the discovery that certain regions of the brain that underlie habit and procedural learning are spa ...

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a devastating acute inflammatory condition of the gastrointestinal tract resulting in intestinal necrosis, systemic sepsis and multi-system organ failure found mostly in infants born prematurely. Despite modern medical advances in the past decade, the etiology remains elusive and morbidity and mortality are still unacceptably high. It has been concluded that the ...

Vivo is a virtual small group exercise program designed for adults 55 and over that is unique in the increasingly popular digital fitness market. Vivo offers 3 key market differentiators: 1) a personalized and individualized live training experience with feedback from a certified trainer, 2) a community of older adult exercisers which enhances motivation and social support, and increase accountabi ...

GlycoScientific proposes to generate antibodies specific for six inflammatory cytokines to elucidate and correlate immunological markers of tuberculosis (TB) transmission and disease development in the guinea pig. Once the antibodies are produced, the Offeror will use them to evaluate the cytokines in TB infected and non-infected guinea pigs. The production of these crucial immunological reagents ...

Abstract Project Summary Applikate Technologies has developed Clearing Histology with Multiphoton Microscopy (CHiMP), a novel tissue processing and imaging platform that provides direct-to-digital images from intact pathology tissue specimens, such as biopsies, without the need for wax embedding, slicing, or scanning of slides. The application of this technology to cancer diagnosis will reduce err ...

Project Summary Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of serious lower respiratory tract disease in infants and young children worldwide. Since infection induces only partial protection, it causes repeat infection and disease throughout life. Though a high priority for vaccine development no vaccine is yet available. The lack of success in developing a vaccine suggests novel strateg ...