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PROJECT SUMMARY There is an increasing public concern about monitoring water quality in the entire drinking water supply system especially at the point of use spurred by recent water catastrophes such as the one in Flint Michigan that has caused severe health issues for thousands of children due to the unsafe level of lead in contaminated drinking water Current quantitative detection methods ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Improving STEM focused curriculum is a primary objective of the current U S administration and is crucial for ensuring that upcoming generations receive the training and skills necessary to compete in the existing global economy To that end there is an urgent need for additional effective teaching tools able to reach a generation that requires instant access to information and a ...

Large scale electrophysiology recordings are recognized as a powerful tool for systems neurobiology and investigation of normal and pathological brain function Buzsaki Continuous high spatial and temporal resolution intracranial electroencephalography iEEG and single neuron recordings from animals and humans are increasingly being used to investigate both normal and pathologic brain f ...

Floreo Technology proposes to develop the Police Safety Module PSM an innovative immersive mobile virtual reality VR application designed to train police safety in adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorder ASD ASD has been increasing in prevalence over recent years While much attention has been paid to the causes and early diagnosis of ASD there remains a clear need for effec ...

PROJECT SUMMARY This application for a Phase I SBIR award represents a collaboration between Clinitech LLC and McLean Hospital Harvard Medical School to develop a wearable biosensor for detecting alcohol in the interstitial fluid of humans who have consumed alcohol Excessive use of alcohol accounts for much of the public health burden related to alcohol use disorders including fetal ...

Title Development of a Photoacoustic Quantitative Ultrasound PAQUS device for clinical use Abstract The objective of this program is to develop a highly innovative bone assessment device by combining our recently invented photoacoustic physio chemical analysis PAPCA technique with more established quantitative ultrasound QUA techniques After a clinic ready Photoacoustic Quantitative Ultra ...

The fundamental objective of the BRAIN Initiative is to understand how dynamic activity in distributed neural circuits mediates human cognitive behavior The non human primate NHP is a key animal model in this effort due to the close similarities of its brain to that of humans and its ability to perform complex cognitive tasks However developing and testing novel hypotheses for how neural cir ...

ABSTRACT Asomicsstudies become increasing commonnew methods to identify biomolecule interactions are neededThe ability to isolate specific biomolecules is a fundamental process that spans many biomedical sectors including researchdiagnosticsdrug discoveryand biomarker developmentCommonlysuch isolations are performed by capturing the analyte of interest on a solid structure and then washing away un ...

Chronic musculoskeletal pain creates a significant public health burden, and Veterans are disproportionately affected. The frequency and extent of co-occurrence of pain and PTSD, pain and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), all three conditions (Post-deployment Multi-symptom Disorder (PMD), and other multi-symptom syndromes can complicate and reduce the effectiveness of pain treatment. Furthermore, the ...

Scarab Genomicsgoal is to commercialize carrier proteins for conjugate vaccine manufactureThis proposal focuses on two bacterial carrier proteins that have been approved by the FDA and that are in use in pre clinical and clinical studiesExoprotein AEPAfrom Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Protein DPDfrom non typeable Haemophilus influenzaeThese proteins are difficult to make by the conventional Ecoli fe ...