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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this STTR Phase I collaboration between KWJ Engineering KWJ and North Carolina State University NCSU will be development of a unique autonomously powered wearable environmental gas sensor for personal exposure monitoring PEM The approach will be to integrate KWJ ultralow power high performance printed amperometric gas sensor for key atmosp ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Intake of added sweeteners high fructose corn syrup and sucrose independently predicts the development of obesity metabolic syndrome and diabetes Despite recommendations by WHO and the AHA to reduce sugar intake to to percent of total energy intake the mean intake of added sugars remains percent of the diet and percent of the population ingest ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Vaccinations for adolescents in the U S tetanus diphtheria and acellular pertussis Tdap meningococcal conjugate vaccine MCV Human Papillomavirus HPV vaccines Gardasil and Cervarex remain well below the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC goals and especially so for the HPV vaccines These vaccine deficits are pronounced among minor ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world The demographics of the prison population are shifting In fact the number of sentenced state and federal prisoners age or older grew at times the rate of the overall prison population from The health status of aging inmates does not mirror the free world population In fac ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The yeast Candida albicans is a normal resident of the human digestive tract It is also the most common fungal pathogen of humans causing both mucosal and systemic infections particularly in immune compromised individuals The majority of new C albicans infections arise from the presence of persistent C albicans cells existing in a biofilm These biofilm b ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this STTR R proposal is to transfer the technology from Rutgers University to REAL Prevention needed to adapt a substance use prevention media literacy curriculum for web based delivery in community organizations for commercialization Substance use increases in frequency and risk through mid adolescence yet most prevention interventions target ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Heroin and related opioids are highly addictive drugs known for their analgesic properties Since the number of heroin users in the United States has skyrocketed reaching epidemic levels Abuse of prescription opioid pain relievers oxycodone Oxycotin and hydrocodone Vicodin which are known gateway drugs to heroin has also increased dramatically Beca ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The knockdown of targeted genes by anti sense oligonucleotides ODNS and genetic medicines collectively G MEDS holds promise for a variety of therapies The delivery of effective quantities of ODNS to specific cells however has proved to be challenging We propose here a novel approach to ODN delivery that involves enveloped virus like particles EVLPs ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Heroin and related opioids are highly addictive drugs known for their analgesic properties Since the number of heroin users in the United States has skyrocketed reaching epidemic levels Abuse of prescription opioid pain relievers oxycodone Oxycotin and hydrocodone Vicodin which are known gateway drugs to heroin has also increased dramatically Beca ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Therapeutics is focused on the development of adjuvant systems with desired immune activities for targeted indications The Companyandapos s immune stimulatory adjuvant platform builds on combinatorial use of immune agonists with distinct immune targets and mechanisms of action for the generation of therapeutic immune responses Critical to this platform techno ...