Abstract: An axial field rotary energy device can include a housing and a rotor rotatably coupled to the housing. The rotor can have an axis of rotation and magnets. A stator assembly can be coupled to the housing coaxial with and adjacent to the rotor. The stator assembly can include a printed circuit board (PCB) having electrically conductive coils and an internal air duct for cooling the stator assembly.

Abstract: Compounds and methods for refolding of proteins in an aqueous solution. In particular, biocompatible multiblock copolymer surfactants such as poloxamers, meroxapols, poloxamines, or polyols are used to catalyze proper refolding without changing the protein composition, and restore the protein to its native conformation and native biological function. The methods can be practiced both in vivo and in vitro. The biocompatible multiblock copolymer surfactants can be used for renaturation of recombinantly expressed proteins, and for renaturation of proteins that are unfolded due to heat, irradiation, mechanical shearing, electrical shock, frostbite, chemical stress, and other abiotic or biotic stresses.

Abstract: Therapeutic methods and compositions useful for the prevention and/or treatment of cellular membrane damage leading to or resulting from peroxidation of the cellular membrane and a breakdown of the barrier function of the cellular membrane. A therapeutic composition includes a combination of a membrane sealing sealing surfactant and a cofactor treatment consisting of an antioxidant and a cellular energy store. To affect this goal, the permeability of damaged cellular membranes is reestablished by the membrane sealing surfactant, effectively “sealing” the injured membranes. To facilitate rapid tissue recovery, cellular energy levels can be reestablished through addition of a cellular energy source such as, for example, MgCl2-ATP which, serves a further dual benefit of improving the cellular ion balance. Addition of an antioxidant eliminates the generation of Reactive Oxygen intermediates and enhances the metabolism of free radicals.

Abstract: A garment device convertible to one or more facemasks wherein the garment device has a plurality of detachable cup sections. Each of the cup sections has a filter device, an inner portion positionable adjacent to the inner area of the user's chest, and an outer portion positionable adjacent to the outer area of the user's chest. The garment device has at least one securing device detachably coupling the inner portions of the cup sections to one another, and the garment device has at least one other securing device attached to the outer portion of at least one of the cup sections. This other securing device is operable to: (a) detachably couple the outer portions of the cup regions to one another; and (b) for each one of the cup sections, attach the outer portion of said cup region to the inner portion of said cup region after said cup region is detached from the other cup region, thereby converting the garment device to a plurality of facemasks.

Abstract: To achieve, an in vivo repair of injured mammalian nerve tissue, an effective amount of a biomembrane fusion agent is administered to the injured nerve tissue. The application of the biomembrane fusion agent may be performed by directly contacting the agent with the nerve tissue at the site of the injury. Alternatively, the biomembrane fusion agent is delivered to the site of the injury through the blood supply after administration of the biomembrane fusion agent to the patient. The administration is preferably by parenteral administration including including intravascular, intramuscular, subcutaneous, or intraperitoneal injection of an effective quantity of the biomembrane fusion agent so that an effective amount is delivered to the site of the nerve tissue injury.