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Many of the currently available options for food safety testing are expensive, slow, or limited in the range of threats that can be detected. Sending samples back to testing facilities in the United States is too slow and cumbersome to effectively respond to immediate food safety issues. SPR technology has been well-developed as a tool for molecular analysis, so it is relatively mature in terms ...

HemoSonics LLC is developing an easy to use and easy to interpret diagnostic device to rapidly identify diffuse coagulopathies in order to guide proper and evidence-based interventions. The management of diffuse coagulopathies is extremely important in military medicine as these conditions represent a significant source of combat morbidity and mortality. HemoSonics"device is based on sonorheome ...

The purpose of this multi-phase program is to develop an innovative all-in-one surgical instrument for performing cricothyrotomies and managing airway trauma on the battlefield, with improvements aimed at ultimately reducing mortality rates associated with these procedures. The Wolf QuickCric is designed to be a substantial improvement over the cricothyrotomy kits that are currently used by medic ...

PsiKick and Bionic Skins LLC will collaborate in this proposal to develop the eBionicskins system, an advanced instrumented prosthetic liner for monitoring the tissue interface within a prosthetic socket using a wireless sensing platform. PsiKick"s ultra-low power electronics fit neatly within Bionic Skins"vision for a complete redesign of prosthetic sockets with a variable-compliant interface th ...

The Army Defense Health Program has a need for a novel freestanding device to sample and collect a broad spectrum of flying insects (order Diptera) for the purpose of analyzing possible disease vectors. The sampling device is required to be effective against mosquitoes (Anopheles, Aedes, and Culex) and sand flies (Phlebotomus and Lutzomyai) in particular, and with desired applicability to other sp ...

Techshot is pleased to provide this proposal utilizing our scaffold fabrication and regenerative medicine experience together with Dr. Boland?s longstanding research interest in developing a tissue engineered vascular graft. We are proposing an off the shelf bioactive vascular graft capable of remodeling in situ to provide a long term solution to revascularization due to traumatic injury. In t ...

Major organ injury such as liver, kidney, heart and lung injuries can lead to high morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. Advanced noninvasive testing with high sensitivity and specificity is needed to detect specific organ injury particularly at early stages. Current techniques such as PCR, MS, absorption-based assays, ELISA and microfluidic-Luminex, cannot meet such requirements. To ...

Due to excessive noise exposure and noise induced trauma, servicemen are often plagued with hearing loss and/or tinnitus. Tinnitus is the most prevalent disability among Veterans, with over 800,000 receiving compensation in 2011. There is no current standard for treatment of tinnitus and the strength of evidence of effectiveness is low in all cases. Access to treatment is limited in rural civili ...

Few tools are available to help individuals learn to user upper extremity powered prosthetic limbs. However, providing proper training and therapy is a critical component to the rehabilitation process and can often mean the difference between success or abandonment of the device. In this proposal, we build on our substantial previous work to provide a manufacturer agnostic hardware tool and intu ...

The aim of this proposal is to develop an advanced blood simulant to replace current simulants used in combat medical training. A successful blood simulant will exhibit a caking/clotting response in the presence of simulated hemostatic agents while accur