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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Altered cellular energetics contributes to human disease in general physiological aging and chronic diseases in particular including cancer neurodegeneration ischemic heart disease and type diabetes Pathological changes affecting the individual may arise only in specific cells of a tissue and potentially in a heterogeneous manner To advance basic resea ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The abuse of illicit drugs such as cocaine marijuana and heroin remains a critical public health concern throughout the country and is associated with staggering economic and social consequences Cocaine remains the most frequently recorded illicit drug in emergency hospital visits and the leading cause of drug related deaths in the United States Since as hi ...

Abstract Summary Nectome will create technologies to enable whole brain nanoscale preservation and imaging a vital step towards a deep understanding of the mind and of the brainandapos s diseases Current brain processing technologies compromise between whole brain applicability or nanoscale resolution our technologies will achieve both si multaneously Similar to the way that next generation ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Neurodegenerative diseases are among the most expensive disruptive and least well treated of human maladies arguably because they are not well understood Array tomography AT is a method for tissue imaging with resolution in all three dimensions sufficient to resolve individual synapses and provide quantitative characterization ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant One of the most complex forms of congenital heart disease hypoplastic left heart syndrome HLHS affects an average of in every newborns with a mortality rate of up to percent during the first year of life The overall goal f our research is to develop safe and effective ways to improve short term and long term survival rates in babies born with HL ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Fast Track Insulin remains the primary and often the only treatment for type diabetes mellitus T D However it is associated with chronic iatrogenic hyperinsulinemia secondary hyperlipidemia higher incidence and severity of cardiovascular complications and life threatening hypoglycemia events A higher mortality vs due to cardiovascular ...

The modern warfighter faces the constant threat of endemic infections, multi-drug resistant bacteria and Biological Warfare Agents. In order to provide accurate front-line treatment that will curtail the overuse of antibiotics, a rapid and robust molecula

This program will demonstrate how additive manufacturing technologies can be used with reactive and high energy materials to create rapid and flexible fabrication of payload and munitions. Our primary approach to this problem will be to use powder bed binder printing techniques to print reactive structures. The anticipated feedstock will consist of composite particles containing all reactant spe ...

Establish a radiation-aware analysis capability in a commercial EDA design flow that will enable first-pass success in radiation-hardened by design (RHBD) for DoD ASICs in much the same way that existing EDA design suites ensure first pass functionality and performance success of complex ASICs destined for commercial applications. Layout-aware, calibrated single-event radiation models that captur ...

For effective protection against EMP and HPM threats, it is important to understand the physics of the threats, and also to quantify the effects they have on electrical systems. EMP and HPM vulnerability testing requires delivery of high peak power and electric fields to distant targets. The most practical solution to simulate such environments is to develop a modular, optically-isolated MV-antenn ...