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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 ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT As people age they steadily lose bone mass and their bones become fragile and increasingly prone to hip and other fractures and this can prove fatal The American College of Radiology therefore recommends that assessment of bone mineral density BMD be performed in post menopausal women and all people over the age of every two years If indicated preventive measure ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Cancer is a major public health problem and a leading cause of mortality claiming more than half million lives every year in the US While major progresses have been made in developing targeted anticancer therapeutics many cancers such as lung cancers have no effective treatments Unfortunately many ideal oncogenic targets including transcription factors for ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The mission of Bioniks is to develop and commercialize accurate low cost movement analysis systems for clinicians ergonomists athletic trainers and other professionals interested in quantifying human movement Our initial focus is on developing computer enhancements for inexpensive D cameras like the Microsoft Kinect These enhancements surpass the accura ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant ODMR Technologies Inc together with Victor Acostaandapos s group at University of New Mexico is developing a nanophotonic platform capable of uniquely detecting minute quantities of biomolecules The specific detection of biomolecules plays a central role in modern life science including cell systems biology high throughput drug scre ...

Summary RNA synthesis technologies have become critical in basic biomedical research and in development of RNA based sensors diagnostics and therapeutics Currently RNAs are synthesized by either solid phase phosphoramidite chemistry or by transcription in solution with phage encoded RNA polymerases The structural diversity of chemically synthesized RNAs is limited by the availa ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant We will perform a clinical study to test a novel patented medical food to manage iron deficiency anemia The project is significant because it addresses the number one nutritional disorder in the world and a health problem on the global scale that is second only to tuberculosis in cost worldwide Estimates are that approximately billion people more than ...

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 ...

Summary In this fast track Phase I II STTR project a novel mass spectrometry method and a matched reagent kit will be developed for mapping modified nucleotides in human mitochondrial transfer RNA mt tRNA including the most abundant modification pseudouridine which hitherto has proved to be a technical challenge because it is an isomer of uridine These new research tools will be harnessed to build ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Atopic dermatitis AD or severe eczema is a very common life long skin disease with of adults in the US requiring systemic therapy Clinical manifestations of AD include multiple inflamed lesions erosions accompanied by lichenification thick leathery skin fibrotic papules and severely dry skin with increased susceptibility to infection A major uncont ...