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PROJECT SUMMARY The overall goal of the proposed research and technology transfer effort is to develop a low cost point of care mobile device based technology for automated identification of Stillandapos s murmur the most common innocent benign and harmless heart murmur of childhood This novel technology could reduce the current rate of over a million children unnecessarily referred to pedia ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Dental caries is the single most common affliction across the globe affecting billion people The current process of identifying dental caries involves examining caries formation by naked eyes or X ray during routine checkups Once identified surgical restorative procedures are used to drill out the decay portion of the tooth an filled with synthetic mate ...

Project SummaryDespite advances in the development of HIV drugs there remains a need for new therapiesToxicities associated with long term use of many of the approved HIV drugs coupled with the development of resistance drives the need for new and novel antiviralsMaturation inhibitorsMIsrepresent one such class of HIV therapiesHIV maturation inhibitors block virus replication by disrupting the con ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Substance use disorders SUDs continue to be one of the most serious public health problems in the US Studies have consistently documented a substantially higher prevalence of SUDs among individuals under criminal justice supervision At year end approximately million adults were on probation or parole in adults African American probationer ...

Measurement of cervical dilation during late pregnancy and labor informs decisions in the management of labor and deliveryPrior published research suggests that practitioners are onlytoaccurate when judging cervical simulatorsWhen measuring laboring womentwo practitionersandaposmeasurements agree onlyof the timeDrEva Martin of Elm Tree Medical Incdeveloped a novel deviceDilaCheckto enable practiti ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Most samples of chemical interest are complex mixtures making the usual combination of chromatography with mass spectrometry MS a natural choice However the increased demand for chemical analysis by mass spectrometry in many areas of science makes it imperative to increase efficiency of analysis by minimizing sample workup and overall analysis time which ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant This application for a Fast Track STTR award represents a collaboration between Natural Pharmacia International Inc NPI and McLean Hospital to initiate steps toward commercializing a isoflavone botanical product for treating alcoholism Excessive use of alcohol accounts for much of the public health burden related to alcohol use disorders including fetal a ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The increasing output of new integral membrane protein IMP structures is partially due to the availability of an increasing number of chemical variables such as detergents detergent like molecules lipids and solubilizing stabilizing additives It is clear that specific combinations and concentrations of these different variables are often necessary to impr ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The objective of this Phase STTR research is to quantify genotoxicity in basal cell keratinocytes from organotypic cultures Epiderm in response to commonly used chemical agents The proposed product is a Comet Chip assay that measures DNA damage in basal cells derived from a reconstructed human epidermis Technical questions that will be addressed are Ca ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Mucormycosis most commonly caused by Rhizopus oryzae is a life threatening infection that occurs in patients immunocompromised by diabetic ketoacidosis DKA neutropenia corticosteroid use and or increased serum iron Because of the rising prevalence of these risk factors the incidence of mucormycosis has risen Despite disfiguring surgery and aggressive ...