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Creare is developing a miniature power system for NOA weather monitoring stations in remote locations. This system can provide electric power continuously from naturally occurring temperature differences that exist between ambient air and water in environments such as the Arctic Ocean and the Great Lakes. Generating power directly from these temperature difference uses the atmosphere and ocean/lat ...

The Bottom Feeder project is designed to prove out the research done in Phase I using a prototype platform. The prototype will be a full size version of the platform designed during Phase I. The Phase I platform was designed to work in two operational configurations, a highly efficient mode and a highly maneuverable mode, with the ability to switch between them while submerged. The platform is equ ...

CytomegalovirusCMVis a very common intrauterine infectionaffecting approximately one in everychildrenThe overall disease burden in the US with congenital CMV was estimated at $billion annuallyCMV is also a cause of serious morbidity and fatal infections in immunocompromised patientsThere is currently no generally accepted therapy and developing a CMV vaccine is high priorityCurrently CMV trials re ...

High throughput screeningHTShas emerged as a leading method of drug discovery and development in the pharmaceutical industryacademiaand at the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational SciencesNCATSHTS relies on the ability to rapidly screen tens of thousands of compounds to identify the most promising drugs and their dose response curvesHTS isof necessityhighly automated and demands mechani ...

Cognitive decline is a major quality of life concern for many cancer survivorsThevarious available treatments affect individuals differentlyand research has unfortunately provided little guidance on how specific treatments impact neurocognitive functionTo help researchers fill this information gap and ultimately provide guidance to doctors and patientsa neuropsychological assessment system that is ...

This application describes the commercialization of the Geodesic Transcranial Electrical NeuromodulationGTENtechnology to achieve noninvasive neuromodulation with improved spatiotemporal precisionThe GTEN system enables both EEG source analysis and configurable electrical neuromodulation with theelectrodes of the Geodesic Sensor NetNow in beta release to selected research customersthe GTEN technol ...

Abstract SignificanceDonor tissue shortage remains a critical problem in lung transplantationRecent advances in tissue engineering have allowed for the possibility of generating bioengineered lungs from decellularized organ scaffoldsThese scaffoldscreated from the donor s tissuebecome functionalized after recellularization with a patient s own cellsHowevertranslation of whole lung decell recell te ...

Project SummaryGenome editing technologiessuch as CRISPR Casprovide a rapidand targeted means of both knocking out gene expression and knocking in gene modificationsSince our initial Phase I submissionthe utility of CRISPR technology has expanded beyond the generation of cell linesto forward genetic screeningin vivo manipulation of gene expression and even human therapeuticsPhase I efforts success ...

PROJECT SUMMARY The goal of this project is to complete the preclinical development of Elex Biotechandapos s novel compounds that target and treat the underlying molecular cause of catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardiaCPVTCPVTThere are no FDA approved treatments for CPVTa rare genetic disorder affectingindividualswith typical onset in childrenyears of age and no reported difference ...

The goal of this project is to develop novel technology for predicting drug induced kidney injury such as caused by systemic antimicrobialsdiureticsanticancer agentsand anti inflammatory drugsDrugs cause approximatelypercent of communityand hospitalacquired episodes of acute renal failurebut the incidence in older adults may be as high aspercentA significant problem is that while there are many dr ...