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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Mercury is one of the most harmful and toxic pollutants to humans and it is predominantly introduced into the environment in vapor form from burning fossil fuels Fossil fuel consumption results in ever higher mercury concentrations in the air water soil and ultimately in food that humans consume The EPA estimates that mercury instigated healthcare costs ...

` The goal of this project is the development of a scalable n x m electrochemical detector array platform with on chip amplifiers for massively parallel recordings of quantal transmitter release events The neurobiological process that this assay analyzes is the process of exocytosis and transmitter release Neurotransmitters and hormones are stored at high concentration in membrane bound organel ...

PROJECT SUMMARY According to a CDC report antibiotic resistant infections are associated with deaths and million illnesses in the United States each year The estimated annual impact of antibiotic resistant infections on the national economy is $ billion in excess direct health care costs and in lost productivity from hospitalizations and sick days The emergence of drug resistant mic ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Therapeutic proteins or andapos biologicsandapos represent a andgt $ billion market that includes a variety of important drugs such as antibodies and hormones The clinical efficacy of many biologics is determined by their sugar structures or andapos glycansandapos Most biologics are manufactured in mammalian cells because they add human type glycans ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Modern clinical practices represent a prototypical information intensive distributed and collaborative environment where physicians struggle to find the right information at the right time to make effective clinical decisions The situation is exacerbated not only by federal guidelines and policies regarding compliance to clinical quality metrics and meaningf ...

Principal Investigator Program Director Last First Middle Chen Ridong Abstract There remains a crucial unmet medical need in acute ischemic stroke AIS treatment Approximately of patients die within one year and are permanently disabled making AIS the fourth leading cause of death and the leading cause of adult disability in the USA with an estimated cost range of $ ...

Hexavalent chromium, Cr(VI), in the usual form of oxo species, is used in manyindustrial processes and products. As a consequence, Cr(VI)= containingcompounds are often found in wastewater and contaminated sites. Since Cr(VI) isconsidered highly toxic and carcinogenic, it is extremely important to have areliable, easy-to-use, sensitive monitor for determining Cr(VI) concentrationsin process, on ...