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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant All States have enacted laws providing for alcohol ignition interlocks as a sanction for impaired driving Going forward interlock programs may become as widely used with impaired drivers as license suspension even though they are more time consuming and expensive for the government to manage Although the extra expense of managing interlock programs is jus ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Glioblastoma multiforme GBM or andquot glioblastoma andquot is the most common and aggressive malignant primary brain tumor in humans An effective treatment that increases patient survival would represent a significant advance in the field and provide a desperately needed new therapy for this deadly disease EnduRx is focused on the development of new tar ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Mobile multifunctional tool for monitoring and management of respiratory diseases Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease COPD and asthma affect millions of people worldwide Because there is no permanent cure for these diseases efficient management of the patients is needed New mobile health technologies such as personal devices that allow patients to monit ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant We are proposing a technology to help in three key areas of proteomics including a recognition of protein interactions b characterization of post translational modifications and c quantitative measurements at high spatial and or temporal resolution to address the dynamics of protein interactions Several significant types of protein interactions remain ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this project is to develop an open and flexible imaging platform capable of rapid, 0.5- 5 m pixel resolution image capture of large-area histology sections (up to 125 mm by 175 mm), in brightfield and by epi-fluorescence optical sectioning. The project involves state-of-the- art instrumentation development coupled with application programming inter ...