| patcherBotPHARMA Automated Intracellular Pharmacological Electrophysiology Robot |
- Increased efficiency: Autonomous operation ensures accurate placement of components and creates high success rates for experiment completion.
- Decreased human effort: Performs typical ligand-gated ionotropic receptor experimentation protocols autonomously for up to a tenfold reduction in operator interaction time over the duration of the experiment
- Higher experiment yield: Rapidly replicates previous datasets, reducing the time to produce an 8-point concentration response curve from weeks of recording to ~13 hours of recording
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| Wearable Ocular Electronics with Virtual Reality Solution for Effective Home-Based Vision Therapy |
- The first fully portable and wireless ocular electronic system in a VR environment provides an effective, home-based visual therapy program.
- The integrated wearable system has a data classification algorithm to provide high-fidelity, real-time detection of eye vergence to treat eye disorders.
- Running a VR system on a smartphone can create “virtual therapies” that can be used anywhere anytime.
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| Simulated Synovial Fluid Offers Potential for Effective Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis |
- Osteoarthritis (OA)-simulated synovial fluid (simSF) provides the opportunity to evaluate how different cell therapies respond to an OA-like environment.
- By analyzing OA patient-derived synovial fluid (pdSF) and developing potency assays, researchers created a simSF comparable to pdSF that overcomes patient variability.
- The simSF allows for the investigation of OA biology with greater reproducibility of predictive outcomes and could advance effective treatment of knee OA.
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| Reducing Intraocular Pressure in Glaucoma Patients Without Drugs or Surgery via a Simple Hydrogel Injection |
- Hydrogel injections alleviate elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) with fast results and extended impact.
- Surgery-free approach eliminates the risk of tissue damage caused by a surgical incision or laser application.
- Simplified and effective treatment process from standard daily drug intake to a brief office visit only once every 4-6 months.
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| DetectIV Offers Noninvasive Early IV Infiltration and Extravasation Detection |
- DetectIV provides a continuous, noninvasive, and wireless IV infiltration and extravasation detection system.
- The sensor does not cover the IV site and works well with all skin types—significant improvements over existing detection devices.
- The device detects infiltrations on average 2 hours ahead of nursing standard of care making it an effective early detection system that prevents extended hospital stays.
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| Biodegradable Shape Memory Polymer for 3D-Printed Tissue and Biomedical Devices |
- New synthesis reaction produces novel biomaterials for soft tissue treatment combines shape memory and biodegradability with custom 3D printing for patient-specific, minimally invasive solutions
- Customizable to patient needs by varying the formulation and molecular architecture to alter the mechanical properties
- Improves safety and efficacy by providing a much-needed middle range to existing “too hard/too soft” tissue repair options, while also being biodegradable and bioresorbable
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| Synthetic Hydrogel for Satellite Cell Delivery in Dystrophic Skeletal Muscle |
- Addresses the critical need for a viable treatment for deterioration of the diaphragm, which is a leading cause of respiratory failure and death in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy patients
- Engineered hydrogels comprised of synthetic polymers and peptides are designed to enable successful muscle satellite cell (MuSC) transplantation to the diaphragm or other dystrophic skeletal muscle tissue
- Shown to support MuSC survival, proliferation, and differentiation, which can enable restoration of dystrophin – a protein absent in DMD and critical to strengthening and repairing muscle fibers
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| Microrobots for Neurosurgery Applications |
- Minimally invasive: Significantly reduces invasiveness of procedures in comparison to current macroscale, neurosurgical robots
- Precise control: Uses 3D position data of the microrobots on the brain surface in a closed-loop system to adjust the magnetic field parameters (i.e., magnitude, frequency, phase, and direct current [DC] offset of each coil) as well as the forces the robots exert to the biopsy tissue
- Facilitates movement: Employs microfabricated shapes that dictate the microrobot's movements, limits their contact with the brain surface to reduce adhesion, and may also provide a means for the robot to propel itself in fluid
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| Synthetic Hydrogels for Human Organoid (HO) Generation and Transplantation |
- Synthetic hydrogel exhibits high cytocompatibility and minimal toxicity and inflammation in vivo for improved human organoid viability
- Injectable delivery vehicle supports localized HO engraftment in mucosal wounds to potentially enhance wound closure and repair
- Modular design and delivery via endoscopic techniques enables the translational potential of this delivery platform for regenerative medicine and overcomes limitations associated with the use of commercially available matrices for hPSC-based organoid technologies
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| Hybrid Molecular Catalysts: A New Blueprint for Catalyst Design, Preparation, and Testing |
- Attachment of molecular catalysts to solid supports can lead to new reactivity not seen under homogeneous conditions
- At an optimal atomic layer deposition (ALD) layer thickness, the molecular catalyst remains highly active while still being resistant to surface detachment and subsequent deactivation
- Catalyst separation and recovery achieved via a simple filtering and washing process rather than energy- and time-intensive distillation or re-crystallization processes
- In addition to the simple filter-and-wash process mentioned above, encapsulation requires only about 10 reaction cycles, making this process technologically and economically viable for large-scale manufacturing
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| Eco-Method Mordant that Improves Natural Dye Adhesion to Synthetic Fabrics |
- Eco-friendly: An improved industrial dyeing process because it reduces excessive heat and water contamination during manufacturing.
- Wide applicability: Demonstrated to be successful with other materials beyond polyester, including Kevlar and polyacrylonitrile (PAN).
- Improved quality: Improving commercial dye methods without losing the desired properties of polyester such as flexibility is beneficial to industries like medical supply.
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| Advanced Manufacturing of Biodegradable Shape Memory Polymers Increases In Vivo Success |
- Faster healing: Improvements catalyze the regeneration of tissue for a faster recovery
- Increased efficacy: Decreases the likelihood of rejection because the polymers are manufactured in such a way to increase tissue ingrowth and cell attachment
- Reduced healthcare resource utilization: When initial implantation is successful, it reduces the need for secondary procedures or advanced clinical care for infection
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| Hydrogels for Controlled Delivery of Lysostaphin to Treat Staphylococcus aureus Infections |
- Injectable (or surgically applied) hydrogel formulation conforms and adheres to the fracture and surrounding tissue, ensuring efficient, local delivery of lysostaphin
- Localized treatments enable higher relative doses to be given at the site of infection, and enhanced stability from the hydrogel carrier may reduce the number of overall doses needed
- Tunable nature of the material provides control over the amount and time over which lysostaphin is delivered
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| Smart, Wireless, Bioelectronic Pacifier for Real-Time Continuous Salivary Electrolyte Monitoring in Infants |
- Smart pacifier offers wireless, real-time, continuous detection of sodium and potassium levels in infants.
- This totally non-invasive monitoring pacifier eliminates the need for blood draws, which can only be done three times each day, and is designed to provide non-invasive neonatal health monitoring.
- Microfluidic channels are designed to efficiently pump optimum quantities and concentration of viscous saliva to the sensor area for quick measurement and to eliminate the need to induce salivary stimulation.
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| Quantitative, Multiplexed Electronic Detection of COVID-19 Biomarkers |
- Direct electronic detection: This innovation provides direct detection of biomarkers as a simple electronic readout without the use of any intermediate optics.
- Multiplexed: The device can simultaneously detect multiple biomarkers (e.g., a four-plex chip to detect IgG and IgM antibodies against spike or nucleocapsid antigens).
- Portable: A handheld, cellphone-interfaced reader is designed to enable detection and monitoring of diseases in remote areas for sensitive yet inexpensive point-of-care use.
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| Intracellular Anticancer Delivery |
- Self-assembling: Forms an organized structure in water at room temperature
- Nano-scale: Approximately 35 nm, ideal for intracellular uptake
- Versatile: Can be used with any antibody
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| Developing Tumor Immune Microenvironments via Engineered Hydrogel |
- Scalable: Enables increased tumor formation rate without sacrificing the dynamic complexity of an in vivo adaptive immune response
- Improved consistency: Demonstrates consistent induction of tumor growth, latency, and immune infiltration in early analyses of the technology
- Cost-effective: Eliminates the repetitive processes of conventional methods and leverages inexpensive hydrogel
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| Capillary Flow Control in Lateral Flow Assays (LFAs) via Delaminating Timers |
- ASSURED: LFAs readily satisfy the majority of the ASSURED (affordable, sensitive, specific, user-friendly, rapid and robust, equipment-free, and deliverable to end-users) criteria reported by the World Health Organization to establish capabilities of POC devices.
- Agile: The addition of timers to LFAs provides an opportunity to develop more complex multi-step testing, as well as additional benefits such as built-in signal amplification and POC DNA extraction and purification.
- Automated: The ability to sequentially deliver different reagents into a reaction via programmable timers imprinted on paper makes it possible to automate multi-step assays that otherwise could only be performed in laboratories or with manual intervention.
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| Recirculation System for Aerosol Collectors Maximizes Particle Concentration for Improved Pathogen Detection |
- Enhanced detection: Continuously recirculated collection buffer increases the concentration of targeted particles collected and improves detection of pathogens
- Increased sampled air volume: Recirculating the buffer enables running the system for longer periods of time and with larger volumes of air to improve pathogen detection in entire buildings
- Increased control: Users have active control of the volume of fluid introduced during collection via the system’s recharge pump
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| 3D Light-Field Endoscopy for High-Precision Microsurgery |
- Enhanced control and safety: Real time visual navigation enhances guidance and intervention in complex microenvironments, maintaining high spatial resolution while providing quantitative depth information
- Comfortable: System does not require 3D glasses that can cause physician dizziness or headaches after long periods of use
- Streamlined: Technique eliminates the need for other imaging procedures such as micro-CT or MRI to quantify the 3D morphology of tissue
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