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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 The prevalence of food allergy has been dramatically increasing for the last few decades Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network www foodallergy org estimates that up to million Americans have food allergies Six to eight percent of children under the age of three have food allergies and nearly four percent of adults have them Signs and symptoms of food all ...

Project Summary Linking infectious agent diagnostics to clinical decision making at the point of care requires a fast highly sensitive and simple to use method that takes into account the infrastructure and workflow in clinical settings of both developing and developed regions In addition being able to distinguish among multiple potential infectious pathogens in a single test is of great impor ...

This Phase II proposal is a continuation of our successful Phase I grant whose overarching goal is to develop a more robust and accurate method for the deformable fusion of pre operative magnetic resonance images MRI and intra procedure trans rectal ultrasound TRUS images to guide prostate biopsy Prostate cancer is a major cause of death in the U S and biopsy is the gold standard for its dia ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this STTR is to identify novel small molecule compounds targeting the nitrogen respiration pathway of Pseudomonas aeruginosa This pathway is crucial to the pathogenesis of P aeruginosa in vivo but has not yet been exploited for antimicrobial drug discovery There is a clear need for new treatments to combat P aeruginosa infections Antibiotic re ...

For more than years sub Saharan Africa has suffered with high rates of endemic meningococcal disease and periodic epidemic epidemics involving over cases In a low cost serogroup A polysaccharide protein conjugate vaccine MenAfriVac was introduced in the region The vaccine confers protection against serogroup A MenA disease as well as asymptomatic nasopharyngeal MenA carria ...

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 ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Neurodegenerative diseases are among the most expensive disruptive and least well treated of human maladies arguably because they are not well understood Array tomography AT is a method for tissue imaging with resolution in all three dimensions sufficient to resolve individual synapses and provide quantitative characterization ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Glioblastoma multiforme GBM the most common and malignant of all gliomas has a median survival time of months Standard of care chemotherapy using temozolomide TMZ is effective initially but the GBM inevitably recurs and these recurrent tumors are resistant to TMZ There are currently no effective treatment options for patients with TMZ resistant ...

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 ...