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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): While it is well known that the brain undergoes rapid developmental changes from birth to early childhood, remarkably little is understood about the relationship between changes in brain size and composition and normal cognitive development. Yet we now know that several potentially debilitating disorders, among them the Autism Spectral Disorders, Attention Defi ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The primary objective proposed is to utilize Boulder Nonlinear System's (BNS) spatial light modulator (SLM) technology to automate the Cogswell group's recently-developed quantitative DIC microscope (Q-DIC) and make it accessible to biologists in the marketplace. Q-DIC is a full-field (non-scanning) phase imaging technique which provides optical path length mea ...

Project Summary AbstractHesperos will construct and test microscale multi organ systems with recirculating blood and cerebral spinal fluid surrogates that will give insights to the responses of various Alzheimer s phenotypes to drugs as well as the influence of peripheral effects on AD progressionspecifically ApoE variantsWe seek to leverage DrMorgan s research on Alzheimer s and aging combine it ...

epilepsome phaseJanGoogle Docs Technical Summary Epilepsy is a significant health problem affectingof the human populationGenome wide DNA sequencingwhich is now being adopted in clinical practicehas led to the identification of an increasing number of variants a in epilepsy associated genesHoweverclinical interpretation of the new variants is challengingSome of the variants are known to be either ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Complete achromatopsia is an autosomal recessive inherited congenital disorder of retinal cone photoreceptors Patients with complete achromatopsia experience extreme light sensitivity and daytime blindness and best visual acuity under non bright light conditions is usually or worse and generally stable over time In addition to poor acuity hypersensit ...

Abstract This Phase I project will focus on developing key elements needed to achieve a wearable, high-density, magnetoencephalography (MEG) device based on optically-pumped atomic magnetometers (OPMs). OPM sensors have progressed to be comparable in sensitivity to liquid-helium-cooled superconducting sensors (SQUIDs) but without the complexity and bulk required by cryogenic cooling. An OPM-based ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Development of radiological/nuclear medical countermeasures to treat Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS) is a high priority research area for NIAID. Bone marrow is one of the most sensitive tissues to radiation damage and impaired hematopoiesis is one of the first clinical signs of excessive radiation exposure, often resulting in death. Interleukin-11 (IL-11) is a ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS) and results in neurological and clinical disability i number of adults in the US. Leukocyte infiltration and plaques of demyelination in the brain and spinal cord of patients are a hallmark of MS. Currently, there is no cure and few therapies for this debilitating ...

Magnetic resonance imagingMRIis a safenon ionizing diagnostic toolThe overall goal of this project is to arrive very close to the ultimate intrinsic signal to noise ratioUISNRfor a given MRI magnet field strength by combining innovations in very advanced transceiver technologyIn Phase Ia high performance head RF coil receiver array will be prototyped and SNR performance compared to an existing com ...

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) Typhoid fever is a major cause of morbidity worldwide with an estimated incidence of 16 to 33 million infections and 500,000 to 600,000 deaths annually. It is caused by Salmonella typhi (S. typhi). The Vi capsular polysaccharide of S. typhi is the protective antigen and is used in current licensed Vi vaccines for prophylactic immunization against typhoid fever ...