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Abstract The primary liver cancer including intrahepatic bile duct cancer pose significant global burden of illness with increasing incidence and mortality in US and around the world. Surgery remains the most effective form of treatment. However, surgical complication rates for medium to high complexity hepatectomies persist in 30-40% range even in highly skilled hands and at high volume centers. ...

Project Summary Stem cell research has shown great potential to help treat or even cure a wide array of health conditions including cardiovascular and neurological disease cancer and diabetes This field is now beginning to move rapidly from the re search stage to clinical translation and commercial applications However it has been widely recognized that stem cell scientists have difficulty ...

Pediatric limb loss, although relatively infrequent compared to adults, results in substantial hardship for children and their families. The principal business interest― iFIT Prosthetics, LLC®― successfully developed and manufactured innovative, fully adjustable, transtibial and transfemoral prosthetic devices, and demonstrated their safety, comfort, and functionality in adults. Made of injec ...

Pediatric limb loss, although relatively infrequent compared to adults, results in substantial hardship for children and their families. The principal business interest? iFIT Prosthetics, LLC®? successfully developed and manufactured innovative, fully adjustable, transtibial and transfemoral prosthetic devices, and demonstrated their safety, comfort, and functionality in adults. Made of injection ...

Lithium metal represents the ultimate anode material due to its high energy density (3860 mAh/g), however, dendrite growth during charge has been essentially preventing its wide application in rechargeable batteries. LiBAMA's bi-functional advanced metal anode (AMA) represents the world's first innovation evolved out of numerous failed and on-going efforts with solid electrolytes, lithium protecti ...

PROJECT SUMMARYThe overall goal of this Phase I proposal is to design and test the feasibility of novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reference standards (“phantoms”) that are urgently needed for comprehensive and standardized quality assurance (QA) of quantitative MRI biomarkers of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). We propose to develop 1) a quantitative MR elastography (MRE) stif ...

As infrared (IR) electo-optical sensors improve in both availability and quality a strong need exists to have comparable improvements in the performance of military obscurants within the IR band. Conventional approaches for creating effective IR obscurants have relied primarily on shaped metal particles with high aspect ratios (e.g. rods, flakes). While efficient it is difficult to create very ...

Abstract: With the increased use of mobile health apps to improve health outcomes, protecting private health data is becoming increasingly important. Researchers estimate there are over 300,000 mHealth apps in existence, and some relate to HIPAA covered entities or their business associates. With patients’ increasing desire for data accessibility and app data sharing, it is critical to ensure th ...

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT With the increased use of mobile health (mHealth) apps to improve health outcomes, protecting private health data is becoming increasingly important. These mHealth apps are offered by healthcare providers and used by patients for various reasons such as paying bills, scheduling appointments, sending messages to providers, accessing lab results, and viewing prescriptions an ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this STTR project is to develop innovative human tumor microenvironment (TM) assays for use as screening tools in the identification of new anti-tumor therapeutics. Novel assay technologies are needed for the discovery of new drugs, and combinations of drugs currently in clinical use, that are effective in the prevention and treatment of cancer. Thi ...