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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Continuous biochemical monitoring has the power to change currently accepted standards of care shifting the emphasis from treating illness to maintaining health Point in time snapshots of a patientandapos s health can miss critical fluctuations or early warning signs that might warrant early interventions or changes in disease treatment and management PROFUS ...

After a breast conserving therapy histology is often performed to check whether the excised tumor specimen is surrounded by a sufficient amount of normal tissue If a positive margin is identified then a second operation will be performed Currently the re operation rate is which raises a need for intraoperative detection of residual cancers The current intraoperative tools for margin ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Fibroproliferative illnesses leading to organ fibrosis and failure are responsible for approximately of deaths in developed countries whether idiopathic triggered by environmental factors infections or genetics organ fibrosis results in significant morbidity and mortality Organ fibrosis is responsible for health care costs exceeding $ billion year ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Interactions between the gut microbiome and the immune system have been linked to inflammatory bowel disease IBD IBD is a chronic and progressive gastrointestinal disease characterized by uncontrolled activation of the intestinal immune system resulting in severe medical complications affecting over million patients in the United States It is a disease of high u ...

ABSTRACT SUMMARY Pyruvate dehydrogenase complex PDC deficiency PDCD is a rare disease of mitochondrial energy failure in which the life of expectancy of affected children is severely truncated Treatment of PDCD remains a serious unmet challenge There has never been a controlled trial of any intervention for PDCD thus there is no proven therapy for affected patients Dichloroacetate DCA ...

In the United States in an estimated million people suffered from Alzheimer s disease AD with as many as being undiagnosed Alzheimer s Association Three stages of AD are proposed National Institute on Aging and the Alzheimer s Association preclinical AD mild cognitive impairment MCI due to AD and dementia due to AD The preclinical stage is proposed to begin ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Surface electromyogram sEMG controlled powered hand wrist prostheses are used by upper limb amputees to return partial upper limb function Conventional transradial prostheses can use surface EMG amplitudes from the residual forearm flexors and extensors to control hand closing and opening respectively Additional degrees of freedom DoFs e g wrist rota ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Studies in the pediatric intensive care unit PICU have shown that hypoglycemia hyperglycemia as well as swings in blood glucose levels are strongly associated with higher morbidity and mortality However tight glucose control has not been proven as effective In fact hypoglycemia was found to be a real danger Thus there is a need for more careful study ...

Project Summary Antibiotic resistance has become a pressing public health concern due to the rise of pathogenic bacterial strains with mutations that reduce or eliminate the effectiveness of drugs to treat infections Beta lactamases produced by some bacteria provide resistance by degrading beta lactams one of most widely used class of antibiotics Originally restricted to penicillins mutant bet ...

Project Summary Linking infectious agent diagnostics to clinical decision making at the point of care requires a fast highly sensitive and simple to use method that takes into account the infrastructure and workflow in clinical settings of both developing and developed regions In addition being able to distinguish among multiple potential infectious pathogens in a single test is of great impor ...