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DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The inability to treat many Gram negative bacterial infections effectively with existing antibiotics is a major medical crisis Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a prime example of clinical isolates from critically ill patients are resistant to three or more drugs The overall goal of this project is to address the critical medical need by a novel approach of iden ...

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 ...

This Phase II proposal is a continuation of our successful Phase I grant whose overarching goal is to develop a more robust and accurate method for the deformable fusion of pre operative magnetic resonance images MRI and intra procedure trans rectal ultrasound TRUS images to guide prostate biopsy Prostate cancer is a major cause of death in the U S and biopsy is the gold standard for its dia ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant There is growing awareness that weakness of muscle is a significant biomedical health issue associated with many different chronic diseases and aging There are a variety of different diseases that affect muscle including muscular dystrophy fibromyalgia cerebral palsy amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and myasthenia gravis each of which carries its own uniqu ...

Summary In this fast track Phase I II STTR project a novel mass spectrometry method and a matched reagent kit will be developed for mapping modified nucleotides in human mitochondrial transfer RNA mt tRNA including the most abundant modification pseudouridine which hitherto has proved to be a technical challenge because it is an isomer of uridine These new research tools will be harnessed to build ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The goal of the proposed Phase II STTR research is to develop an imaging system capable of detecting and identifying biomolecules in cells and tissue sections with sub cellular spatial resolution The system combines an atomic force microscope AFM with mass spectrometry MS analysis and utilizes a unique tip enhanced laser ablation TELA method developed in ...

NanoSD, Inc. with its partners will develop a transparent, nanostructured thermally insulating film that can be applied to existing single-pane windows to reduce heat loss. To produce the nanostructured film, the team will create hollow ceramic or polymer nanobubbles and consolidate them into a dense lattice structure using heat and compression. Because it is mostly air, the resulting nanobubble s ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant Surface electromyogram sEMG controlled powered hand wrist prostheses are used by upper limb amputees to return partial upper limb function Conventional transradial prostheses can use surface EMG amplitudes from the residual forearm flexors and extensors to control hand closing and opening respectively Additional degrees of freedom DoFs e g wrist rota ...

The United States has the highest rate of incarceration in the world There are over state and federal prisons housing over million prisoners in the United States The demographics of the prison population are shifting Longer sentences and constrained options for early release compound this trend The older adult segment of prison populations has more than tripled since The health ...

DESCRIPTION provided by applicant The objective of this Phase II STTR grant application is to continue the R Randamp D efforts initiated in Phase I The long term objective for Arrhythmotech is to develop and market an instrument for the simultaneous recording of sympathetic nerve activity SNA and electrocardiogram ECG using electrodes on the skin This method neuECG was discovered in Dr ...