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The overall goal of the Phase II work is to advance novel tissue-integrating lactate sensors towards human testing as rapidly as possible (proposal does not include human testing itself). A single sensor injected subcutaneously can provide months of continuous physiological monitoring data transmitted wirelessly through near-infrared light for remote monitoring. This proposal includes activities s ...

The Advanced Electronic Development Program (AEDP) will develop prototypes of photonic and digital components. Under AEDP, electronic equipment will be developed and prototyped, with components integrated for a capability demonstration. This work will be performed under the Phase II SBIR program.

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a Phase II SBIR proposal to increase the throughput of our DNA sequencing instrument to enable whole genome sequencing with high efficiency and accuracy for a cost of under 1000 per genome. In Phase I, we developed a working sequencing assay, a microfluidic platform and camera system, and analysis methodology that enable genome alignment and variant ca ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Disorders of iron metabolism are among the most common human diseases. During the last decade, rapid progress has been made in understanding the molecular basis of iron homeostasis and its disorders. The peptide hormonehepcidin has emerged as the master regulator of iron metabolism. Dysregulation of hepcidin is the principal or contributing factor in most syste ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Disorders of iron metabolism are among the most common human diseases During the last decade rapid progress has been made in understanding the molecular basis of iron homeostasis and its disorders The peptide hormone hepcidin has emerged as the master regulator of iron metabolism Dysregulation of hepcidin is the principal or contributing factor in most syst ...

This project is aimed at the development of an enzyme immunoassay (ELISA) for screening blood for antibodies to Babesia microti. Human babesiosis is a malaria-like illness due to infection of red blood cells by various species of protozoan parasites belonging to the genus Babesia. Most human infections reported in the United States are caused by B. microti which is endemic in parts of the northeas ...

Low resolution quality of operational data, size of objects of interest, view occlusions, and crowded scenes degrade the performance of state-of-art region saliency and object recognition approaches when applied to overhead sensor data. We have developed a technology to automatically detect and recognize multitude of objects of potential interest providing an object recognition decision with a hig ...

Abstract Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisALSis a universally fatal neurodegenerative disease that afflicts overout of everyindividualsProtein aggregation has been implicated as a primary driving force in ALS and multiple other neurodegenerative illnessesTDPis the principle component of the protein aggregates in ALSand TDPalso stands out as the only genetically defined ALS mutant gene that is also the ...

Preceding Award: NCI Award 1R44CA192875-02 Project Summary: According to the Oral Cancer Foundation, about 50,000 people in the US will be newly diagnosed with oral cancer (OC) in 2017, causing 9,700 deaths[1]. OC is a severely neglected orphan disease with a lack of significant treatment advances in 4 decades[1]. Historically, OC has been present in heavy smokers and drinkers. However, more recen ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary goal of this proposed project is to develop a point-of-care diagnostic assay and platform for the detection of Clostridium difficile from human stool. Two additional goals are to detect the hypervirulent strain of C. difficile B1/NAP/027 and to detect C. difficile spores from swabs of medical devices. C. difficile associated disease (CDAD) is now th ...