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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Dental caries is the single most common affliction across the globe affecting billion people The current process of identifying dental caries involves examining caries formation by naked eyes or X ray during routine checkups Once identified surgical restorative procedures are used to drill out the decay portion of the tooth an filled with synthetic mate ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Non steroidal anti inflammatory drugs NSAIDs are among the most widely consumed pharmaceuticals but their prolonged use causes gastric injury and damage to the small intestine Previous work has shown that anandamide an endogenous endocannabinoid substance produced in the gastrointestinal GI mucosa plays an important role in epithelial homeostasis and re ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The broad objective of this project is to develop an integrated wet lab dry lab kit for high throughput detection of RNA modifications The final product will provide all required molecular biology reagents a set of simple and robust experimental manipulations for facile analysis of modifications and researcher friendly analytic cloud based software requi ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Retinal diseases including age related macular degeneration AMD diabetic retinopathy DR diabetic macular edema DME and retina vein occlusion RVO are the leading causes of vision loss and blindness in people over years old According to the NEI in nearly million people in the U S suffered from some form of these diseases whose prevalen ...

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 Science based strategies for quantifying and mitigating the impact of anthropogenic emissions on public health are essential for the sustainability of cities Similar strategies can also be used to develop and assess the effectiveness of a national defense system against terrorist attacks with airborne biological agents and protect against the spread of airborn ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant In it is estimated that there will be new bladder cancer cases in the United States resulting in deaths Most cases present with nonmuscle invasive bladder cancer NMIBC Intravesical bacillus Calmette Guerin BCG which elicits a nonspecific local immune response is considered the standard first line treatment However ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Anasys Instruments and Prof Lynne Taylor of Purdue propose to develop nanoscale chemical characterization capabilities for drug formulation research This project will build on successful Phase I research demonstrating feasibility of atomic force microscope based infrared spectroscopy AFM IR in pharmaceutical applications This Phase II research will advance ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Up to of low birth weight preterm infants manifest some form of periventricular white matter injury PWMI making it the most common form of brain injury affecting premature infants In the US infants per year are born at risk for PWMI and about children per year will develop PWMI World wide infants will be born each year at ri ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Dysbiosis refers to a condition with microbial imbalances within the human microbiome Yogurts are the best examples of using fermenting gut bacteria to rebalance the gut dysbiosis Our results demonstrate for the first time that Staphylococcus epidermidis S epidermidis a commensal bacterium of the human skin functions as a probiotic microorganism that em ...