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Type I CRISPR-Cas expands the human genome engineering toolkit

Type I CRISPR-Cas expands the human genome engineering toolkit

Unmet Need Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)-Associated Systems (Cas) provide immune protection to bacteria and archaea. CRISPR-Cas systems can be mono-subunit (Class 2) or multi-subunit (Class 1). Class 2 CRISPR-Cas systems, especially Type…

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Perfusate for optimized gene delivery to donor organs undergoing ex vivo machine perfusion

Perfusate for optimized gene delivery to donor organs undergoing ex vivo machine perfusion

Unmet Need Effective gene delivery is notoriously difficult to achieve to an entire target organ. Gene therapies have traditionally been administered intravascularly, requiring high vector doses to attain therapeutic levels of expression. Because of this…

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Targeted delivery of gene therapy for cardiac reprogramming with enhanced efficacy

Targeted delivery of gene therapy for cardiac reprogramming with enhanced efficacy

Unmet Need Cardiac injury results in irreversible and permanent loss of cardiomyocytes, leading to heart failure with ~40% mortality within 4 years from diagnosis. It has been shown that directly reprogramming scar fibroblasts into new…

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Bioresorbable lactone-based elastomers that can be used in continuous digital light processing 3D printing applications

Bioresorbable lactone-based elastomers that can be used in continuous digital light processing 3D printing applications

Unmet Need The global market for 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, is growing rapidly with a compound annual growth rate of approximately 21% predicted to occur until 2027. Medical and dental products account for the…

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Minimally invasive vagus nerve stimulation to improve cognitive function

Minimally invasive vagus nerve stimulation to improve cognitive function

Unmet Need Neuroinflammation is a major driver of cognitive deficits and the development of neurological disorders. The vagus nerve plays a critical role in regulating physiological responses to resolve neuroinflammation. Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) is…

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A synergistic chemotherapy and radiotherapy drug delivery technology for treating prostate cancer tumors

A synergistic chemotherapy and radiotherapy drug delivery technology for treating prostate cancer tumors

Unmet Need Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest manifestations of cancer in clinical oncology. Despite accounting for only 3.2% of all cancer cases, it is the third leading cause of cancer-related mortality. National Comprehensive…

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A low-cost and effective ethanol ablation tumor treatment

A low-cost and effective ethanol ablation tumor treatment

Unmet Need Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among woman globally, with an estimated 342,000 deaths in 2020, of which 90% of deaths occurred in low-and middle-income countries. A primary reason for this…

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Anti-cancer therapeutic for the induction of apoptosis in solid tumors via TRAIL receptors

Anti-cancer therapeutic for the induction of apoptosis in solid tumors via TRAIL receptors

Unmet Need Tumor necrosis factor-Related Apoptosis-Inducing Ligand (TRAIL, CD253) acts as an activator of apoptosis in many tumor cells, while remaining innocuous to normal cells. Both membrane-bound and soluble forms of TRAIL can trigger apoptosis…

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Flexible needle for targeted delivery of chronic pain treatment

Flexible needle for targeted delivery of chronic pain treatment

Unmet Need For patients suffering from chronic pain associated with degenerative changes, inflammation, neuropathy or cancer, the ability to carry out daily life and work activities is a challenge. Current treatment methods are limited and…

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Enzymatic synthesis of aptamer-targeted polynucleotide drug delivery platforms for cancer therapy

Enzymatic synthesis of aptamer-targeted polynucleotide drug delivery platforms for cancer therapy

Unmet Need In the United States alone, over 1.8 million new patients were diagnosed with cancer in 2021, and over 600,000 patients died from the disease. Cytostatic nucleotides, such as gemcitabine and 5-fluorouracil, have been…

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Method to trap and transport small particles with acoustic forces

Method to trap and transport small particles with acoustic forces

Value Proposition Acoustic tweezers use ultrasound to create radiation force potential wells that enable precise and contact-free manipulation of physical and biological objects across a broad object size range. It is a fast-developing platform that…

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A class of biodegradable stealth polymers to improve drug delivery

A class of biodegradable stealth polymers to improve drug delivery

Unmet Need Delivery of drugs or therapeutics such as small molecules, peptides, and proteins, in their native form, is limited by their poor stability, low solubility, and short in vivo circulation. These challenges in drug…

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