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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Circulatory, hypoxemic or traumatic arrest claims an estimated 350,000 lives per year in the United States accounting for almost 15% of all deaths. Circulatory, hypoxemic, or traumatic arrests result in whole-body ischemia, most significantly global cerebral ischemia. Brain cells die when they no longer receive oxygen and nutrients from the blood. Because cereb ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Circulatory, hypoxemic or traumatic arrest claims an estimated 350,000 lives per year in the United States accounting for almost 15% of all deaths. Circulatory, hypoxemic, or traumatic arrests result in whole-body ischemia, most significantly global cerebral ischemia. Brain cells die when they no longer receive oxygen and nutrients from the blood. Because cereb ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a growing trend to make public-use data of all kinds directly available to consumers of those data without the need for skilled, technologically-proficient programmers to deliver reports. This project will pro

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The effort under this proposal is to prepare for and perform a large clinical study using in-vivo confocal microscopy to validate the results of a smaller, recently published study of the efficacy of this technology for diagnosis of melanoma. The main goal of this Type 2 Phase II Competing Continuation SBIR Proposal is to obtain data for submission to the FDA a ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Irreproducibility of biomedical and preclinical research is responsible for wasting 50% of the entire research budget and accounts for billions of wasted dollars. Issues with authenticity of key resources, such as cell lines, form a major contributor to this problem. An alarming increase in cell authenticity issues has prompted the NIH and some journals to take action by requiring ...

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Abstract The U.S. Department of Commerce predicts that STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) jobs occupations will grow by 8.9 % from 2014 to 2024, compared to 6.4% for non-STEM occupations. STEM wages are generally higher than non-STEM, with a 29% difference in 2015. Yet, current approaches to STEM education are falling significantly short. In 2016, 64% of U.S. high school students un ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Liver fibrosis is a form of scar formation that is found in almost all patients with chronic injury to the liver. Over time it frequently progresses to cirrhosis, an end-stage lethal disease which is the seventh leadingcause of death in the United States and afflicts hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Alcohol intake remains the most important cause of li ...

DESCRIPTION (Verbatim from the Applicant's Abstract): A small, intravascular catheter pump providing adequate output, good blood compatibility, and high reliability is being designed for use as a cardiac-assist pump in the operating room or interventional cardiology laboratory. This pump would function not only for minimally invasive surgery, but also as a valuable, inte ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In comparison to standard x-ray therapy, proton therapy allows an increased dose of radiation to a tumor and by reducing the amount of radiation to healthy tissue. As a result, it provides the best possible option for using radiation to control and eliminate tumors with the least short and long term toxic side effects. Currently less than 1% of all radiation th ...