Abstract:
The present invention relates to method(s) of treating a subject afflicted with a skin disease or condition, the method comprising administering to the subject or patient in need a composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a substituted cis or trans- stilbene or a stilbene hybrid. A method of treating or reducing the likelihood of a skin disease or condition in a patient is an additional embodiment of the present invention. Preferred pharmaceutical compositions of the invention include nanoemulsions comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a substituted cis or trans-stilbene or stilbene hybrid and at least one antibiotic.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to protocells for specific targeting of hepatocellular and other cancer cells which comprise a nanoporous silica core with a supported lipid bilayer; at least one agent which facilitates cancer cell death (such as a traditional small molecule, a macromolecular cargo (e.g. siRNA or a protein toxin such as ricin toxin A-chain or diphtheria toxin A-chain) and/or a histone-packaged plasmid DNA disposed within the nanoporous silica core (preferably supercoiled in order to more efficiently package the DNA into protocells) which is optionally modified with a nuclear localization sequence to assist in localizing protocells within the nucleus of the cancer cell and the ability to express peptides involved in therapy (apoptosis/cell death) of the cancer cell or as a reporter, a targeting peptide which targets cancer cells in tissue to be treated such that binding of the protocell to the targeted cells is specific and enhanced and a fusogenic peptide that promotes endosomal escape of protocells and encapsulated DNA. Protocells according to the present invention may be used to treat cancer, especially including hepatocellular (liver) cancer using novel binding peptides (c-MET peptides) which selectively bind to hepatocellular tissue or to function in diagnosis of cancer, including cancer treatment and drug discovery.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to the use of isotopically labeled citrulline for gnosing the presence or absence of a bacterial infection in the lungs of a patient.
Abstract:
Various embodiments provide methods of forming zero valent metal particles using an aerosol- reductive/expansion synthesis (A-RES) process, in one embodiment, an aerosol stream including metal precursor compound(s) and chemical agent(s) that produces reducing gases upon thermal decomposition can be introduced into a heated inert atmosphere of a RES reactor to form zero valent metal particles corresponding to metals used for the metal precursor compound(s).
Abstract:
The invention enables the display of antibody single-chain variable fragments (scFv's on virus-like particles (VLPs) of bacteriophages such as MS2. The VLPs encapsidate mRNA encoding the coat protein from which it assembles, enabling the recovery by reverse transcription and PGR of affinity-selected sequences from scFv libraries. Related virus-like particles, method for constructing a library of scFv-VLPs, drug delivery vehicles comprising one or more pharmaceutically-active ingredients, biomedical imaging agents, assays, and kits are also provided.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides novel poly(phenylene ethynylene) (PPE) compounds, methods for synthesizing these compounds, and materials and substances incorporating these compounds. The various PPEs show antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal activity.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatus for growing and sequentially processing algae to produce a variety of products including but not limited to biofuels, algal meal, oil, unsaturated fatty acids and recombinant proteins and peptides in a cost-effective and energy efficient manner. Also provided are methods of use for the products.
Abstract:
Provided are polymer-aerogel composite coatings, devices and articles including polymer-aerogel composite coatings, and methods for preparing the polymer-aerogel composite. The exemplary article can include a surface, wherein the surface includes at least one region and a polymer-aerogel composite coating disposed over the at least one region, wherein the polymer-aerogel composite coating has a water contact angle of at least about 140° and a contact angle hysteresis of less than about 1°. The polymer-aerogel composite coating can include a polymer and an ultra high water content catalyzed polysilicate aerogel, the polysilicate aerogel including a three dimensional network of silica particles having surface functional groups derivatized with a silylating agent and a plurality of pores.
Abstract:
The invention provides direct processes and related catalysts for the syntheses of trisubstituted chiral pyrrolidines, piperidines, tetrahydrothiophenes, and thianes by highly enantio- and diastereoselective cascade Michael-Michael reaction of a, ß-unsaturatedaldehydes with /ra/25-?-protected amino a, ß-unsaturated esters.
Abstract:
A photoacoustic imaging device includes an array of light sources configured and arranged to illuminate a target region and an array of ultrasonic transducers between the array of light sources and the target region. The array of transducers may be fixedly coupled to the array of light sources, and the array of ultrasonic transducers may be configured and arranged to receive ultrasound transmissions from the target region.