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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Gene transfer for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases is bedeviled by inability to obtain safely and easily sufficient cardiac transgene expression Current methods of gene transfer for heart disease include intramuscular injection into heart muscle or intracoronary delivery approaches that are cumbersome to apply Consequently we have considered the u ...

The introduction of substandard or counterfeit materials into the DoD supply chain can have extremely expensive, and potentially life threatening, consequences. Current techniques used to detect nonconforming materiel can be destructive (e.g., manual sectioning and inspection of a part), time consuming and expensive (e.g., micro-computed tomography, ultrasound), or provide only limited informatio ...

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 ...