by | Mar 10, 2018 | Becker, Matthew, Fang, Huafeng, Pan, Dipanjan, Rossin, Raffaella, Sun, Xiankai, Taylor, John-Stephen, Turner, Jeffrey, Welch, Michael, Wooley, Karen
— This invention features cell permeable nano conjugates of shell-cross-linked knedel (SCK) and peptide nucleic acids (PNA) with mRNA targeting sequences for early diagnosis and therapy of cancers.
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Goldberg, Daniel, Sigala, Paul
— Background: Malaria, mainly caused by Plasmodium falciparum, results in over 200 million clinical cases a year and approximately 430,000 deaths a year. Tropical and sub-tropical countries have a high incidence of malaria cases because Anopheles mosquitoes thrive in warm temperatures and are able to …
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 | Ravi, V. Nathan
— Background: About 422 million people worldwide and over 29 million Americans have diabetes. The prevalence of diabetes is increasing and an important cause of blindness, amputation, kidney failure, and one of the leading causes of premature death. Diabetes is associated with significant costs. In th…
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Alvarado, David, Dobbs, Matthew, Gurnett, Christina, Haller, Gabriel
— Background: A DNA point mutation is a single nucleotide base substitution, insertion, or deletion in a gene sequence. Point mutations are responsible for several diseases including cystic fibrosis, sickle-cell disease, polycystic kidney disease, microcephaly, and Crohn’s disease. The study on …