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PROJECT SUMMARY Over million people worldwide including million people in the USA are HIV positive HIV associated sensory neuropathy HIV SN is the most frequent neurological manifestation of HIV and is characterized as a distal symmetrical predominantly sensory polyneuropathy HIV SN may represent clinically indistinguishable neuropathies with distinct pathogenesis a distal axona ...

PROJECT ABSTRACT There are two big challenges to reducing the number of substance use disorders SUDs in the United States Almost of the million people who suffer from SUDs are never professionally diagnosed and never seek treatment and treatment for the small minority that does seek help is not very effective with relapse rates estimated to be between and within ...

Project Summary ODMR Technologies Inc and Prof Victor Acostaandapos s group at University of New Mexico UNM are developing a diamond chip platform capable of direct magnetic characterization of individual nanoparticles for optimized diagnostic imaging Our team is a spinoff from academic collaborations in the emerging field of diamond photonic sensors a field we helped create nearly a deca ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The academic iobio project delivers web based applications that visualize and provide real time interactive analysis with multiple different data types generated as part of next generation sequencing projects These applications are open source and provided for free This proposal aims to develop critical computational infrastructure to enable the iobio project ...

Because of its high sensitivity polymerase chain reaction PCR is the gold standard for the diagnosis of many infectious diseases but generally only implemented in well equipped laboratories One of the major roadblocks for expanding PCR to point of care markets is the lack of simple robust single tube PCR designs which preserve its laboratory based high sensitivity and specificity In this F ...

PROJECT SUMMARY ABSTRACT Stroke injury is a process that occurs over a long duration with pathologic changes that result in long term neurologic dysfunction For stroke there exists an important need for a strategy that can provide safe and efficacious stabilization to the hypoperfused brain and initialize long lasting endogenous neuroprotection for prevention of long term neurologic dysfunction ...

Project Summary Abstract In the past decade laboratories around the world have produced tens of thousands of mutant transgenic and wild type zebrafish lines for a wide range of genetic and biomedical research Maintaining all of these valuable genotypes is expensive risky and beyond the capacity of even the largest stock centers Cryopreservation of zebrafish sperm eggs and embryos is vital ...

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 ...

Plasmodium falciparum is the most virulent form of malaria causing million deaths per year Success with patient treatment and a malaria eradication campaign depends significantly on our ability to detect new infections as early as possible in the field rural areas including asymptomatic cases preferably using a small amount of blood e g from a finger prick and to clearly discrim ...

PROJECT SUMMARY Early cancer detection and diagnosis are critical for patient survival and treatment successFor the imaging of breast and other solid tumorsthe diagnostic power of advanced imaging techniques such as SPECT could benefit tremendously from improved contrast agents that rapidly and selectively accumulate in tumor lesions and produce high tumor to background signal ratiosWe are develop ...