by | Mar 10, 2018 | Storch, Gregory
— Background: Viral infections are common causes of fever without an apparent source (FWS) in young children. Despite absence of bacterial infection, many febrile children are treated with antibiotics. Virus and bacteria interact with different pattern recognition receptors in circulating blood leuko…
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Kotzbauer, Paul, Mach, Robert, Tu, Zhude "Will", Yu, Lihai
— A novel series of phenothiazine-derived molecules are useful for detecting Parkinson’s disease using positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. The molecules bind with high affinity to the alpha- synuclein protein, which forms aggregates in the brain and is associated with the neurodegenerati…
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Achilefu, Samuel, Kotagiri, Nalinikanth
— Background: Around 1 million patients receive radiation therapy every year with an estimated cost of $2,000 per treatment. The market demands technologies that can provide efficacious therapeutics and diagnostic imaging while minimizing harmful side effects. Photodynamic therapy can simultaneously s…
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Mach, Robert, Rowland, Douglas, Tu, Zhude "Will", Welch, Michael
— The sigma-2 (σ2) receptor is an important target for the development of molecular probes in oncology because of its 10-fold higher density in proliferating tumor cells than in quiescent tumor cells, and the observation that σ2 receptor agonists are able to kill tumor cells via apoptotic …
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Druley, Todd, Young, Andrew
— Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) allows rapid sequencing of an individual’s entire genome or portions of the genome to identify thousands of genetic variants. Personalized genomic tests based on NGS technologies can be used to predict an individual’s risk of disease or monitor disease pr…