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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Many patients requiring stem cell transplantation for hematological malignancies are unable to find a suitable HLA matched sibling or unrelated donor Transplants using stem cells from umbilical cord blood provide an alternative for these patients allowing transplantation to proceed with less stringent HLA matching requirements Unfortunately in addition to t ...

ABSTRACT Zika virus ZIKV has rapidly emerged and spread through South and Central America the Caribbean and Puerto Rico since its last outbreak in Micronesia in Transmitted by the mosquito Aedes sp its forecasted spread will have a major impact on the Southeast U S Most ZIKV infections remain asymptomatic or present with non specific rash and fever therefore they have been difficult ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Chikungunya virus CHIKV is an emerging disease of global public health importance Originally identified in sporadic CHIKV outbreaks occurred in Africa and Asia for several decades Beginning with an outbreak on the island of La Reunion in the virus has continued to spread to new regions around the globe CHIKV is now endemic in the Caribbean is present in t ...

DESCRIPTIONprovided by applicantCardiovascular diseases and Asthma affects betweenandmillion people in the United States includingmillion childrenduring the pastyearsits incidence worldwide has doubledAsthma is responsible formillion person days of restricted activity anddeaths per yearamounting to $billion in direct heath related coststhere is uncertainty about the specific factors that are contr ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACTEach yearover one million adolescents are arrestedmany more engage in other serious conduct problemsincluding binge drinkingillicit drug useand school drop outCollectivelythese problems result in enormous costs to individualsfamiliesand societyThe most effective interventions to address these problems are family basedwith a strong clinical emphasis on helping parents better ...

Project Summary AbstractThis SBIR Direct Phase II project will produce a complete platform to perform nucleic acid quantificationNAQby digital polymerase chain reactiondPCRThe platform will consist of a complete instrument that handles devices and executes all phases of the assaydigitizationamplificationand detectionin one instrumentoffering truewalk awaycapabilities within a closed systemIt will ...

The goal of this project is to enable fastercheaper delivery of integrated registries for mental health research centers by improving the Research Exchange DatabaseRexDBan open source integrated registry platform developed by Prometheus Research during a prior Phase I SBIR awardIntegrated research registries can provide many benefits to mental health researchers and organizationsincluding easier d ...

Summary channel multimodal ultrathin flexible SFE for cancer diagnosis and therapy Minimally invasive optical imaging is being advanced by molecular probes that enhance contrast using fluorescence The applications in cancer imaging are very broad ranging from early diagnosis of cancer to the guiding of interventions such as surgery The high sensitivity afforded by wide field fluorescence i ...

Summary Optical visualization to efficiently guide coronary intervention of chronic total occlusions We propose to investigate the use of the Scanning Fiber Endoscope SFE during coronary intervention for chronic total occlusions of the coronary arteries CTO CTOs represent the most challenging angioplasties and often have much higher failure rates compared with standard angioplasty Improved ...

The wiring diagram of brain circuits is one of the foundational and fundamental questions of modern neuroscienceExtracting a circuit sized volume at synaptic resolution requires large scalehigh throughput imaging of many thin sections of brain tissueThe immediate goal of researchers is to capture and map a cubic millimeter of cortex at synaptic resolutionrequiring the collection and imaging oftiss ...