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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Congenital diaphragmatic hernia CDH affects in newborns CDH is a disorder in which part of the diaphragm fails to form allowing abdominal organs to migrate into the chest resulting in lung hypoplasia underdevelopment in affected infants Although great strides have been made in the management of this disease significant morbidity and mortality p ...

Commercial Polymerases to Create Receptors Ligands and Catalysts on Demand Firebird Biomolecular Sciences LLC University of Texas Steven A Benner Andrew D Ellington ABSTRACT Innovators at Firebird Biomolecular Sciences LLC have created several generations of an artificially ex panded genetic information system AEGIS that adds eight nucleobases that form four additional pairs Z P S ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant For this Phase I STTR proposal the investigators plan to develop the radiofrequency RF coil technology required for high resolution fMRI at T In the absence of a body transmit coil all T head coils must also incorporate a transmitter in addition to the receiver Here we propose a transmit array with up to individual channels combined with a receive a ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Peptide conjugated phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers PPMO are single stranded nucleic acid analogs able to modulate gene expression through steric blocking of complementary RNA PPMO are composed of two components an antisense morpholino oligomer cargo covalently conjugated to a cell penetrating delivery peptide PPMO are completely nuclease resistant ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Chronic viral hepatitis is clinically silent until development of cirrhosis and hepatic decompensation Decompensated cirrhosis is a precursor to liver failure and is associated with increased risk of severe esophageal bleeding significant cardiovascular events and death The gold standard for diagnosing cirrhosis is liver biopsy though problems with the pro ...

Abstract RNA editing is a process in which the genome encoded information is altered in RNA RNA editing is an efficient way to increase RNA complexity thereby fine tuning both gene function and dosage Adenosine to Inosine A to I editing is the most common type of RNA editing known in animals The cellular machinery recognizes inosine as guanosine so A to I editing of codons and splicing sign ...

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 Development of Optimized Endectocide treated Bird Feed Formulations for West Nile Virus Control STTR Phase I Application PIs Brady Clapsaddle TDA Research Inc Dr Brian Foy Colorado State University West Nile Virus WNV is the leading cause of domestically acquired arboviral disease in the United States resulting in significant disease and death every year in both ...

Vibrant Corporation and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) propose to apply Process Compensated Resonance Testing (PCRT) to the DLA's need for an NDI method to detect counterfeit, nonconforming and improperly processed materiel. PCRT collects and analyzes the resonance frequencies of a component to detect structural defects, characterize material, analyze population variation, monitor manufacturin ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Insomnia of sufficient clinical severity to meet diagnostic criteria is present in approximately of older adults nearly million individuals n the US alone If left untreated it can lead to increased rates of depression cognitive impairment and cardiovascular disease Treatment relies on pharmacotherapy such as sedative hypnotic therapy which is ass ...