Translational Medical Science
Background: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is often used as treatment for mid to late stage breast cancer prior to surgery. However, it is currently not possible to determine accurately or r…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project integrates three individual studies: microcystin detection, bloom prediction, and septic distribution analysis. With the data from a four month longitudinal collection period, a…
Dr. Cristina Fernandez Jim Waltman The Watershed Institute It is forecast that 66% of our population will experience water scarcity within a decade, leaving us more dependent on surface wate…
Biomedical Engineering
Arthritis is a common ailment that affects gait and pressure distribution across patients’ feet. While current treatments include physical therapy, medication, and surgery, these solutions a…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer biomarkers are measurable variables indicative of disease presence or progression. However, inadequate methods of biomarker identification combined with the underlying complexity of c…
Biomedical Engineering
This project’s purpose was to efficiently and cost-effectively develop an obstructive sleep apnea monitoring and detection device (SMD-1) through the use of sensors and a novel machine learn…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is marked by persistent deficits in hyperactivity/attention that impede daily function. Since the discovery of its existence, there remains a…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The research presented represents the second-year effort on developing novel whole-pore bipolar membranes for H2/O2 fuel cells. During Year 1, bipolarity was created within the pores of Nafi…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
A new frontier in anti-aging research is the development of senolytics, drugs that selectively kill senescent cells an ameliorate age-associated disorders. A hallmark of senescence is the SA…
Engineering Mechanics
Magnified by the effects of global warming, the coastal storms have the potential to threaten the large percentage of the world’s population which resides along coastlines. Despite the promi…
Microbiology
The overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics and lack of new drug development has resulted in widespread emergence of antibiotic resistant bacterial infections, posing a substantial threat to p…
Systems Software
Extraterrestrial solar cell efficiency has only begun to be researched over the past few years, even though this topic is very important for the future exploration of our solar system. This…
Biomedical Engineering
The A Novel Suture Additive: Use of Beet Extract to Assess for Surgical Wound Infection experiment, has developed a suture that can change color when it comes into contact with an infected w…
Plant Sciences
Abiotic stresses induce oxidative stress in crops. Oxidative stress is when a plant produces more reactive oxygen species (ROS) than the antioxidant defense system can counteract, which lead…
Microbiology
Enhanced crop production on a sustainable basis is necessary for solving the global food crisis. However, many agricultural practices to enhance crop growth are detrimental to the environmen…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
With a dismal five-year survival rate of 8%, pancreatic cancer remains one of the most lethal epithelial cancers. A growing body of evidence suggests that deformities in cell-cell junctions…
Environmental Engineering
The world's waters are fighting with numerous issues but spreading below the surface is a serious issue - our waters are running out of oxygen. Areas of water that contain low or zero levels…
Microbiology
The purpose is to eliminate Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhi in wastewater so that its reuse does not contaminate, using medicinal plants such as Moringa oleifera and Xenophyllum poposu…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Mealworms (Tenebrio monitor) digest polystyrene with conversion into CO2 + biomass. Antibiotics were given to mealworms to modify gut microbiome + measure changes in styrofoam digestion. Adv…
Microbiology
The development of antibiotics has meant a new era for microbial treatment and control. However, because of some natural and social problems, have emerged the "Antibiotics Crises" which, acc…
Animal Sciences
To discover whether an ant's pheromones can determine the route taken by another ant to a destination, an experiment was designed using different combinations of pavement, fire, and carpente…
Translational Medical Science
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that eventually deprives an individual of normal movement, affecting over ten million people worldwide. As it progresses, the person with…
Andrew Bramante Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of liver cancer and is regarded as one of the most aggressive cancers. Over 800,000 people contract HCC each year and a…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have successfully demonstrated superior overall performance in many image classification and recognition tasks on H&E histology images. Reported studies typically…
Translational Medical Science
Heart diseases are the number one cause of deaths globally, with three-quarters occurring in developing countries (WHO). In India, heart-related mortality rates in rural areas have surpassed…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
This research project identifies previously unknown vulnerabilities in pancreatic cancer cells that can be used to target cancer treatment. This research manipulates a step in the central do…
Researchers in precision agriculture are exploring efficient methods of monitoring nitrogen content in crop systems to manage resources, increase crop yields, and prevent environmental degra…
Mathematics
Mathematical modeling is a powerful way to comprehend emerging properties/behaviors in social problems involving many parameters acting simultaneously and non-linearly. Current epidemiologic…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Drug delivery devices specifically transport drugs to help reduce drug toxicity to healthy cells and repetitive drug administrations. This study analyzes the use of pH-responsive nanogels, p…
Environmental Engineering
Environmental and economic concerns over accumulating plastic waste and dwindling reserves of fine-grade sand are on the rise. A proposed solution to both problems has been to replace sand w…