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PROJECT SUMMARY Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) is an opioid withdrawal syndrome that develops shortly after birth to in utero-exposed neonates. The cost of NAS is high: newborns with NAS are typically receive care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), where the daily cost of care is high. Nearly 22,000 infants are born with NAS each year at a cost of $1.5 billion1. Moreover, medication-b ...

Abstract Summary Nectome will create technologies to enable whole brain nanoscale preservation and imaging a vital step towards a deep understanding of the mind and of the brainandapos s diseases Current brain processing technologies compromise between whole brain applicability or nanoscale resolution our technologies will achieve both si multaneously Similar to the way that next generation ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of this STTR Phase I collaboration between KWJ Engineering KWJ and North Carolina State University NCSU will be development of a unique autonomously powered wearable environmental gas sensor for personal exposure monitoring PEM The approach will be to integrate KWJ ultralow power high performance printed amperometric gas sensor for key atmosp ...

Retinal degeneration involving progressive deterioration and loss of function of photoreceptors is a major cause of permanent vision loss worldwide. Strategies to treat these incurable conditions incorporate retinal prostheses via electrically stimulating surviving retinal neurons with implanted devices in the eye, optogenetic therapy, and sonogenetic therapy. Existing challenges of these strategi ...

AquaTeX Medical is developing a novel liquid embolic material (LEM) - Aqua Embolic System (AES) - to improve cancer treatment. AES is designed to occlude feeding vessels of hypervascular tumors with superior efficacy and excellent biocompatibility as compared to other trans-arterial embolization (TAE) materials.TAE is a catheter-based treatment to treat hypervascular tumors. Embolic materials are ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Energy Research Company ERCo in a collaboration with The City College of New York CCNY and Columbia University Medical Center CUMC proposes developing the Vulnerable Plaque Amplified Optical Analyzer VPAOA a fiber optic catheter instrument based on patented amplified spectroscopy technology for detecting and analyzing vulnerable plaque VP in corona ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our company is developing virtual reality augmented systems to help clinicians convert their existing exercise equipment in order to provide intensive, task specific functional re-training. Our concept is to build tools that will enhance existing clinical resources rather than requiring the purchase of new equipment. The Virtual Reality Augmented Cycling Kit ( ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Lipid Sciences, Inc., proposes to use its proprietary solvent treatment technology to develop a modified SARS viral particle to use as a prophylactic vaccine. SARS has the potential to reemerge with greater force at any time; therefore, a preventative vaccine would be highly desirable to protect both global health and economies. Our vaccine production method po ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): One widely considered approach to identify susceptibility alleles is through linkage disequilibrium (LD) between these alleles and a universal set of relatively frequent SNPs distributed in all or most ethnic populations. This approach, however, may be unrealistic when variant alleles responsible for disease susceptibility are infrequent or are specific to a pa ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): One widely considered approach to identify susceptibility alleles is through linkage disequilibrium (LD) between these alleles and a universal set of relatively frequent SNPs distributed in all or most ethnic populations. This approach, however, may be unrealistic when variant alleles responsible for disease susceptibility are infrequent or are specific to a pa ...