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Project Summary/Abstract Bone marrow aspirates are critical to the diagnosis, staging, and monitoring of hematologic conditions and cancers (e.g., leukemia, aplastic anemia, sickle cell disease, and metastasis of solid tumors), but 8-50% of aspirations are unsuccessful due to operator technique, hemodilution, or underlying pathology. Because this process is manual and error-prone, there is an oppo ...

7. PROJECT SUMMARY Breast cancer is the most common cancer worldwide and the most common cancer diagnosed in American women. While there has been good progress regarding detection and treatment methods, breast cancer remains the primary cause of death from malignant tumors. Hence, there is a critical need for the development of novel predictive and prognostic factors. Risk assessments are currentl ...

Project Summary In diagnosis, risk stratification, and management of life-threatening diseases/conditions, every minute counts and unambiguous detection of many relevant protein biomarkers is crucial. Unfortunately, the workflow of current unambiguous approach–mass spectrometry–is bottlenecked by the sample preparation process. A microwave-enhanced, flow-through microreactor is proposed here f ...

Summary/Abstract The goal of this project is to develop a precision medicine approach to the rapid diagnosis of membranous nephropathy (MN) using automated statistical analysis of proteomic data obtained from kidney biopsies. This approach uses data-independent acquisition mass spectrometry (DIA-MS) and an algorithmic data pipeline capable of efficiently determining the most likely MN antigen type ...

Most patients with melanoma die from metastatic disease as the result of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) spreading from a primary tumor through the blood to vital organs. Despite significant progress in the development of in vitro CTC-detection assays, they still have low sensitivity due to the small samples of blood taken. To overcome these problems, we developed in vivo photoacoustic (PA) flow cy ...

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is the most common reason for hospitalization in the U.S., with over 1 million admissions per year. Patients admitted with CHF usually need IV diuretics to promote fluid removal. The readmission rate is high – over 20% by 30 days, and 30% by 90 days post-discharge. This also presents an enormous economic burden - hospitalizations account for a large percentage of t ...

Project Summary While nucleic acid therapeutics have shown promise in rodent and nonhuman primate models of CNS diseasesall double blind clinical trials to date have failedOne likely explanation for this failure is poor therapeutic distribution in targeted brain regionsFor examplepost mortem studies of patients with Parkinsonandapos s Disease receiving intraparenchymal injections of AAV NTN demons ...

Summary Malaria continues to be a global health prioritywith almost half of the world s populationbillionat risk and arounddeaths each yearOvertreatment is caused by lack of diagnosis and contributes to resistancea huge threat as illustrated by artemisinin resistance in Southeast AsiaLittle progress has been made in the novel methods to diagnose malarialet alone in reliably identifying asymptomati ...

Project Summary Fauxsee Innovations LLC The objective of this project is to assess the efficacy and usability of an electronic travel aid ETA called Roboglasses developed through an NSF SBIR grant in reducing head and upper body injuries sustained by blind people who currently use a cane and or guide dog for mobility Canes and dogs only provide information about ground level obstructions ...

Congestive heart failure CHF is the most common reason for hospitalization in the U S with over million admissions per year Patients admitted with CHF usually need IV diuretics to promote fluid removal The readmission rate is high over by days and by days post discharge This also presents an enormous economic burden hospitalizations account for a large percentage of the ...