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The broader/commercial impacts of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project include the development of a gene therapy platform that will allow the use of genetic therapeutics in areas beyond rare diseases, tackling large unmet clinical needs such as diabetes, osteoarthritis, and autoimmune diseases. The project will also enable significant reductions in the costs of gene thera ...

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by replacing plastics with cellulose secreted by genetically modified bacteria in the form of synthetic leather. This substitution effort will assist the USA in reaching net-zero GHG emissions by saving over 660 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (C ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is the improvement in hospital laboratory results by automating and standardizing a manual test procedure that is critical for the diagnosis of infections. Faster, higher quality and less expensive test results will help to ensure that patients receive timely treatment with the appropriate med ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is a technology to explore the utility in the ubiquity of iron on both Earth and Mars. The ores of many metals are iron-rich, mixed materials, including those of 33+ metals critical for a sustainable future. However, high iron content is a nuisance for most established metal extractions. For e ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will establish the thermal and mechanical limits of novel, fiber-reinforced, plastic composite materials (FRPs) and pioneer a fast-manufacturing process for these FRPs. FRPs have the potential to achieve significant lightweighting and subsequent greenhouse gas emissions reductions by displacin ...

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is in accelerating the transition to a more sustainable food supply chain, which could democratize access to healthy foods and lessen food insecurity.The US system for growing and distributing fresh food is inefficient and insufficient in the context of climate change. Controlled environmental agricultu ...

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project includes improving the reproducibility of automated life science workflows while simultaneously reducing their carbon footprint. Automated life science workflows are increasingly prevalent in medical (e.g., laboratory tests and diagnostics) and research (e.g., next generation sequencing) applications, and mixing i ...

The broader/ commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is in addressing the unemployment of youth, primarily in underserved communities, across the United States by providing an online, collaborative gaming environment to educate, train, and provide Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)-based career opportunities. It is estimated that mor ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is the development of a grid-scale battery to enable large-scale, long-duration energy storage. New technologies for long-duration energy storage are required to solve the challenge of renewable energy intermittency. The widespread deployment of a new battery technology based on ubiquitous an ...

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will be to control several critical pathogens and pests on multiple crops, in order to help feed the growing world population more sustainably. The global crop pest and disease control landscape is facing big challenges: many diseases are not well controlled and important chemical pesticides ...