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Water Desalination Using Electronic Friction Acting on Salt Water Flowing Past Electrically Conducting Walls

As water shortages become more common throughout the world, a need exists for new water purification processes that can convert saltwater to clean drinking water. The currently-utilized process of desalination involves the removal of dissolved salts from seawater and other salt water sources by either distillation or reverse osmosis. While this process...

Published: 4/13/2021 | Inventor(s): Jeffrey Sokoloff

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A Highly Elastic and Auto-Fluorescent Poly (Xylitol-Dodecanedioic Acid) for Tissue Engineering

This proprietary technology is a class of biomaterials which can be used across various tissue replacement applications due to biocompatibility, ability to safely degrade in the body, and drug eluting properties. The inventors developed a novel cross-linking procedure utilizing dicarboxylic acid to achieve structural, physicochemical, and biological...

Published: 1/28/2021 | Inventor(s): Yunqing Kang

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System and Method for Guiding a Multi-Pole Sensor Catheter to Locate Cardiac Arrhythmia Sources

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an abnormal and irregular rhythm of the heart, where the electrical signals are generated erratically. The disorder affects roughly 34 million people worldwide. Current methods employed to detect AF sources in the heart utilize a 64-pole catheter, which has limitations in the overall AF detection strategy. This invention...

Published: 3/26/2021 | Inventor(s): Behnaz Ghoraani, Prasanth Ganesan

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A Novel Erythrocyte Membrane Coating for Diagnostics and Drug Delivery

The technology is a novel red blood cell (RBC) based biosensor capable of detecting molecules in the blood for diagnostic purposes, as well as, delivering therapies directly to blood cells within the body. This technology utilizes an innovative method of mimicking RBCs for use as a biosensor via a multi-layer coating consisting of poly-L-lysine and...

Published: 8/2/2019 | Inventor(s): Peng Yi, Tanaz Islam

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Systems and Methods for Disease Detection Using Mobile Device

This technology utilizes two methods to improve performance of point-of-care diagnostics that utilize cell phone images; a video processing algorithm and an image saturation analysis algorithm. The smartphone video processing method selects the best image frames in a video set which results in improved performance of a diagnostic assay. Additionally,...

Published: 4/13/2021 | Inventor(s): Waseem Asghar, Benjamin Coleman, Chad Coarsey

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Portable, Electrical Impedance-Based Blood Testing Device for Diagnosis and Monitoring Sickle Cell Disease

Sickle cell disease is a genetic disorder that affects hemoglobin, which is vital for the transfer of oxygen to cells throughout the body. This innovation is a unique finger prick diagnosis and monitoring platform that allows for the quick, accurate, and inexpensive diagnosis of this disease. The device consists of multiple components including an impedance...

Published: 8/2/2019 | Inventor(s): Sarah Du, Darryl Dieujuste, Jia Liu, Yuhao Qiang

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System and Method for Sperm Selection

This proprietary technology is a 3D-printed fluidics chip that allows for a flow of buffer fluid across the collected sperm. Sperm are introduced at one end of the chip, then fluid flows into the chip, away from the collection point for the sperm. This causes the sperm to swim away from the starting point towards the collection point. Thus, the sperm...

Published: 8/2/2019 | Inventor(s): Waseem Asghar

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