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SUMMARY Sepsis is a clinical syndrome that complicates severe infectionSepsis remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patientsThere are no specific FDA approved medicines for the treatment of sepsisCurrent concepts of the pathophysiology of sepsis suggest that organ failure and mortality in sepsis are caused by inappropriate regulation of the immune systemThis manife ...

Abstract Chemical exposure poses a threat to the safety and health of each of us, especially those who work in certain industries, such as petroleum extraction and refinery facilities, mining industry, and fertilizer factories. Various sensing technologies have been developed over the past decades to address the need, but a low cost and accurate personal exposure device that can track multiple che ...

Abstract Deliriuma major cause of fallscan occur in as many asof cancer patients undergoing stem cell transplantationresulting in up totimes greater chance of dyingDelirium risk can be mitigated and many other outcomes of stem cell transplants can be improved through behavioral interventions delivered at the bedside through conversationimageryand audioHowevertraditional means of delivering these i ...

Project Summary Enabling high accuracy nanopore based strand sequencing has the potential to improve the understanding of long range genomic relationships and processes andbased on its accessibilityenable the associated clinical and diagnostic applicationsthe fastest growing sequencing sectorUnfortunatelyit is commonplace for nanopore sequencing error rates to exceedand higher accuracy is needed t ...

AbstractBiosynthetic or synthetic degradable hernia mesh is the fastest growing segment of the hernia mesh marketreaching$M in sales inwith Bard controllingof the US marketfollowed by GoreNovus Scientificand EthiconWhile biosynthetic mesh may be used in any type of hernia repairit is most commonly used in ventral hernia repair cases where there is an increased risk of bacterial infectionThe reason ...

ABSTRACTMyotonic muscular dystrophyDMDis a genetic disorder characterized by muscle degeneration and weaknessIt is a common form of muscular dystrophy that generally begins in adulthoodUnfortunatelythere are no approved curative therapies for DMtreatments are largely palliativeThe more severe formmyotonic dystrophy typeDMis caused by theCTG n expansion in theUTR of the dystrophia myotonica protein ...

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Project Summary Galactic Core LLC aims to develop a robust, scalable, and managed service for performing enterprise-grade biomedical data analysis. The service will be based on the popular open-source Galaxy application (​https://galaxyproject.org/​), offering unlimited data storage and compute capabilities with an extremely powerful, flexible, and collaborative environment for analyzing data. ...