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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): BioInVision, Inc. and Case Western Reserve University researchers will develop a cryo-imaging system for 3D imaging of mice. It will serve very many applications in biological research and the biotechnology industry, in cluding mouse anatomical phenotyping, drug delivery, imaging agents, metastastic cancer, pathogen/immune system response, and stem cells/regene ...

Intellectual Merit: This STTR project will develop novel engineered Clostridia strains for fermentation to economically produce butanol as a biofuel from sugars derived from starchy and lignocellulosic biomass. Butanol is an important industrial solvent and potentially a better transportation fuel than ethanol. Recent rising oil prices and limited petroleum resources have generated high interest i ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Bio-Signal Group Corp. developed a miniature, battery-operated, multi-channel, portable digital telemetry system to record wideband bioelectric signals. DT measures biopotentials with high precision because it digitiz es signals on the subject at 24-bit resolution. Perhaps the most obvious feature that distinguishes the DT from other telemetric systems is the ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): ASAP-YS: Adaptive Screening and Assessment of Psychopathology. Project Summary: This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I proposal will develop and test a new computerized adaptive self-assessment measure: the Adaptive Screening and Assessment of Psychopathology-Youth Self-informant (ASAP-YS). This is a computer-assisted self-interview (A-CASI) fo ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project aims to apply the unique property of high-speed jets to adhere to nearby curved surfaces, with a turning radius much larger than the size of the jet - the so-called COANDA effect. The proposed research aims to take advantage of this effect to manipulate thermal spray jet stream and vector the stream such that the hot thermal gas stream ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project will investigate the technical and commercial feasibility of coating metal foils with a solid sorbent so that they act as a desulfurizing component for pre-treatment of sulfur-laden liquid fuels. The coated foils will be inserted into a small heat exchanger that acts as a platform unit for conversion of liquid fuels to hydrogen for fue ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of this research is to develop a technology and eventually a minimally-invasive commercial system for image-guided photodynamic therapy for cancer. This is certainly in keeping with NCI's focus o n imaging in vivo for cancer screening, diagnosis, progression, image-guide therapy, treatment monitoring, and recurrence. In studies conducted ...

The Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR) Phase I project addresses the scale-up to kilogram quantities of a novel university laboratory solid-state method of synthesizing metal oxide and metal nanoparticles by mixing common chemical starting materials and baking the resulting precursor material at modest temperatures; and the dispersment of the loosely agglomerated particles for comm ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Analysis of DNA is important in many applications including forensics, agriculture, pathogen detection, diagnostic genetic testing and biomedical research. For the vast majority of genomic DNA analysis, chemical amplif ication methods such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of a target sequence are used to increase the amount of the genetic fragm ...

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase II research project proposes to research and bring to market the next generation digital data recovery techniques. The problem of restoring lost data from a damaged digital device arises routinely in digital forensics and data recovery. In many advanced cases of digital storage failure currently available file recovery techniques based on disk s ...