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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Micro-RNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that control gene expression by regulating messenger (mRNA) translation. miRNAs can act as oncogenes or tumor suppressors, and the differential expression of miRNAs has been correlated with cancer diagnosis, staging, and prognosis, and has been used to nominate therapeutic targets. Much of what is known about miRNAs ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Infection is a common and frequently very serious complication associated with medical implants. Man-made materials, including those used to fabricate ventricular assist devices (VADs), compromise the body's ability tofight infection in tw ways. First, by breaching skin with transcutaneous cannulae and drivelines, and second, by eliciting a foreign body re ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Malaria is a global disease causing gt 500 million clinical cases and gt 1 million deaths each year. Moreover, drug resistant Plasmodium falciparum has become a major problem. Therefore, it is crucial to discover new classes of drugs for anti-malarial drug design to combat resistant parasites. We propose that antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) may provide the basis ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): It is uniformly recognized that sedentariness - the sitting disease - is bad for the health of the nation. The solution to reversing sedentariness involves devising and disseminating real-world solutions to promote day-long physical activity and help people who want to, to lose weight and improve their blood glucose, lipids and blood pressure. The Gruve is ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Nearly 70 million people in the US suffer from arthritis related conditions[1, 2]. Of these, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) cases constitute approximately 3 million. RA is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease that primarily results in erosive destruction of articular joints with additional variable extra-articular effects. The growing elderly population coupl ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term objective of the proposed project is to design a low-profile, high-resistive, MRI-compatible dense array EEG sensor net for simultaneous dEEG/fMRI recordings in fields as high as 7 Tesla. This novel sensor net (256-channel InkNet) will use innovative conductive ink leads printed on polymer thick film (PTF) developed at the Analog Brain Imaging Lab ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A large body of evidence indicates that the cognitive impairment and delayed neurodegeneration in traumatic brain injury (TBI) is caused by increased accumulation of tau, phosphorylated tau (p-tau) and other neurotoxic proteins including APP and alpha-synuclein (aSYN) which also cause neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Parkinson's ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this SBIR is to create the first comprehensive set of clinical tools and noninvasive methods for diagnosing cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt obstruction and to validate them to convince clinicians of their clinical value. Hydrocephalus is a common condition in which CSF accumulates in the brain ventricles, potentially leading to brain damage and ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Although balance and gait disorders are one of the most common and devastating chronic medical problems of older people, especially those with chronic neurological diseases, clinicians or clinical researchers do not measure balance and gait frequently, accurately, or sensitively. Our long-term goal is to develop and commercialize a unique system called the Hom ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Understanding the brain is a profound and fascinating challengecaptivating the scientific community and the public alikeThe lack of effective treatment for most brain disorders makes the training of the next generation of neuroscientistsengineers and physicians a key concernHowevermuch neuroscience is perceived to be too difficult to be taught in schoolTo make neuroscience more acc ...