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Project Summary During this project, Electronic BioSicences (EBS) and Professor Meni Wanunu (at Northeastern University) will develop a true single-molecule, direct, long-lived, RNA sequencer. The developed RNA sequencer will be capable of sequencing RNA with high-accuracy (andgt;99%), as well as iteratively sequencing various samples and quantitatively profiling the RNA content of a given sample, ...

PROJECT SUMMARY—When neck and back pain becomes intractable, spinal fusion is the gold-standard treatment. However, up to 12% of these fusions fail due to infection, resulting in substantial personal and financial costs. In most cases, these infections are associated with the hardware used to stabilize the fusion. Traditionally molded or machined polyether ether ketone (PEEK) cages are widely us ...

AbstractEpigenome analysis can help dissect the transcriptional regulatory sequences that control spatiotemporal patterns of gene expression during anima development and disease pathogenesis, but a major challenge to epigenome analysis is the heterogeneity of primary tissues. Conventional epigenome assays that take bulk tissues as input only produce population average signals. To address this majo ...

ABSTRACTExhaled breath is one of the most non-invasive human effluents that can be captured and analyzed, and yet it has minimal presence as a common clinical endpoint measurement in any branch of modern medicine. There has been a persistent technology gap for both breath sampling and breath analysis, despite the many vulnerable patient populations and age groups that could be aided by its use. Ex ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a neurovascular complication of diabetes mellitus and the leading cause of blindness in working age adults and elderly, affecting approximately 4.2 million diabetes patients in the US, of which 655,000 have vision-threatening DR. There is an urgent need for the development of additional approaches to prevent and treat diabetic retinopathy, as the curren ...

Mekanistic Therapeutics seeks to design, discover, and develop anti-cancer agents that selectively inhibit multiple oncogenic pathways. Among Mekanistic’s portfolio are dual and highly selective inhibitors of EGFR and PI3 kinase, which were rationally designed to only target these two critical oncogenes. The PI3 kinase (PI3K)/AKT/mTOR pathway plays a central role in driving tumor cell survival a ...

Project Summary Electronic BioSciences (EBS) proposes, in collaboration with Distinguished Professor Henry White at the University of Utah, to develop a nanopore-based extracellular vesicle (EV) characterization system capable of high-resolution, single-vesicle, solution-based characterization, sorting, and isolation. EVs are nanometer-scale, cell-derived vesicles that are produced by nearly all m ...

Project Summary An electrolyte panel is a blood test that measures the levels of electrolytes and carbon dioxide in your blood. Electrolytes are chemicals found naturally in the body, such as potassium, calcium, sodium, and are needed to keep the bodyandapos;s balance of fluids at the proper level and to maintain normal functions, such as heart rhythm, muscle contraction, and brain function. CO2 i ...

Perfusion Medical is commercializing a novel pipeline product called PEG-20k IV Solution. The company believes this may be the first therapeutic to directly treat lethal complications of sepsis, and as such, support new thinking on the basic mechanisms of the disease. Sepsis or septic syndrome leads to a spectrum of illnesses and occurs at a frequency of 1.7 million people in the US each year and ...

Project Summary Right ventricle (RV) dysfunction is a common and complex form of pediatric heart disease. It is also a common contributor to morbidity and mortality for patients with congenital heart diseases (CHD). Due to the complex geometry of the RV and its relative adaptability to changing physiologic conditions, RV dysfunction is poorly understood and difficult to characterize precisely and ...