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The Power of Food Scale: A Tool to Evaluate the Psychological impact of the Food Environment Factors that Affect Appetite
PAGE TITLE Overview PAGE SUMMARY Executive Statement: Hunger in humans is driven by basic internal factors like nutritional or caloric deficit but also by external factors like the food environment. as well as more complex behaviors driven by pleasure or desire. The Power of Food Scale (PFS) is a validated measure of hedonic hunger, the...
Published: 2/19/2025   |   Inventor(s): Michael Lowe
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Category(s): Pharmaceuticals & Therapeutics, Research Tools & Materials
Nanotube-based sensors and probes
PAGE TITLE Overview PAGE SUMMARY Described herein are novel devices for the study of transport characteristics of complex or simple fluids, interactions among molecules in suspension, interactions between molecules in suspension and wall-bound molecules, and biochemical sensing devices made of reservoirs for fluid containment linked by a nanotubes....
Published: 2/18/2025   |   Inventor(s): Yury Gogotsi, Byong Man Kim, Michael Riegelman, Haim Bao
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Category(s): Research Tools & Materials, Medical Devices, Diagnostics & Biosensors, Electronics, Advanced Materials & Chemicals
Flow chamber and analyte detection method
PAGE TITLE Overview PAGE SUMMARY Researchers in the School of Biomedical Engineering at Drexel University have developed a flow chamber and method for detecting the presence of one or more cell-produced analytes under flow conditions. The parallel-plate flow chamber has two components separated by a permeable membrane, with one compartment containing...
Published: 2/18/2025   |   Inventor(s): Kenneth Barbee, Dov Jaron, Allison Andrews
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Category(s): Research Tools & Materials, Medical Devices, Diagnostics & Biosensors
A new method to study and manipulate APP processing and amyloidogenesis
PAGE TITLE A new method to alter amyloid precursor protein processing and amyloidogenesis PAGE SUMMARY Altered Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) processing and Aβ production have long been recognized as major factors in the cognitive decline associated with both Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders (HAND)....
Published: 2/18/2025   |   Inventor(s): Olimpia Meucci, Renato Brandimarti
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Category(s): Research Tools & Materials, Pharmaceuticals & Therapeutics
A transgenic fly model to identify genes and pharmacologic agents that modulate Alzheimer’s disease
Transgenic Drosophila model for Alzheimer's Disease Brief Summary Over 5.4 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease (AD), and this number is expected to triple by 2030. In 2012, the care cost for AD patients rose to $200 billion, representing a significant burden to Medicare and Medicaid. Drexel researchers have developed and...
Published: 2/18/2025   |   Inventor(s): Aleister Saunders, Daniel Marenda, Ranjita Chakraborty, Vidya Vepuri
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Category(s): Research Tools & Materials