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Background Dental caries, also known as tooth decay or cavity is one of the world's most common oral health problems today. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 60%-90% of school-aged children and nearly 100% of adults worldwide have dental cavities. They can affect people in a variety of ways, including infections, tooth pain, stunting...

Published: 10/28/2024 | Inventor(s): Jin Xiao

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Category(s): Therapeutic

Method for 3D Nonlinear Structured Illumination Super-resolution Imaging

Researchers at the University of Arizona have developed a super-resolution microscopy method that is faster, easier to use, and has less artifacts than current super-resolution methods. The result is a 3D dual-color stimulated emission depletion (STED) nonlinear structured illumination (NL-SIM) microscope. Using a combination of low coherent light and...

Published: 4/3/2023 | Inventor(s): Leilei Peng, Yu Li, Han Zhang

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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Medical Imaging, Technology Classifications > Imaging & Optics > Microscopy, Spectroscopy, Polarimetry

Passive 3D Optical Identification Tag Design

VALUE PROPOSITION Spatial navigation is important for many human-related activities, including those underwater like scuba diving and underwater accident rescue. Efforts to improve underwater navigation based on acoustic and RF techniques incur significant drawbacks, including high power consumption, expensive price, long latency, or short...

Published: 6/20/2024 | Inventor(s): Xiao Zhang, Li Xiao

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Category(s): Communication, Computer Software, Informatics

Polyols and Polyurethanes from Lignin

Unmet Need: Successful production of lignin based Polyols Polyurethane (PU) is an important class of thermoset polymer with a $70 bn/year market, providing materials for many applications. PU materials are comprised of an isocyanate and a polyol; both of which are currently obtained from non-renewable petroleum resources, suggesting that the development...

Published: 10/8/2024 | Inventor(s): Xiao Zhang, Udishnu Sanyal

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Category(s): Technologies > Next Generation Materials & Technology > Advanced Materials, Technologies > Energy & Environment > Clean Tech

Method for fabricating a pressure sensor

Technology description Every year, clinicians in the United States alone place more than 1.5 million pulmonary artery catheters for the purpose of hemodynamic monitoring. Balloon occlusion of the aorta has emerged as a tool for controlling life-threatening hemorrhage from the pelvis and lower extremities. Currently, the pressure of the inflated balloon...

Published: 12/11/2023 | Inventor(s): Xiaojing (John) Zhang, Tushar Sharma

Keywords(s): Implantable, Sensors

Category(s): Physical sciences > Mechanical engineering

Production of lignin with controlled structural properties

Unmet Need: Production of high-performance composite materials using lignin The emerging biomass refinery industry generates an enormous amount of lignin as waste in biochemical biomass-to-biofuel conversion processes. No practical biorefinery lignin valorization process has been demonstrated so far. Given the potential volume of biorefinery lignin,...

Published: 10/8/2024 | Inventor(s): Xiao Zhang, Aboutaleb Ameli, Kuan-Ting Lin, Ruoshui Ma, Che-Hao Yang

Keywords(s): Advanced Materials

Category(s): Technologies > Next Generation Materials & Technology > Advanced Materials

Cellulose Dispersions for Reducing Cold Damage in Tree Fruit

Unmet Need: More cost-effective and less labor-intensive cold damage protection technologyEconomic loss from cold damage is one of the most prevalent recurring production issues in temperate fruit industry, and poses a significant challenge to profitable and sustainable production. Each year, the U.S. produces >15M tons of deciduous fruit crops that...

Published: 10/8/2024 | Inventor(s): Xiao Zhang, Changki Mo, Matthew Whiting, Qin Zhang

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Category(s): Technologies > Food & Nutrition > Agriculture and Plant Sciences, Technologies > Energy & Environment > Clean Tech, Technologies > Health & Well-being > Chemistry

Using Flagellin to Prevent and to Treat Inflammation Associated Gram Negative Bacterial Infection

This technology provides a new method for treating inflammatory diseases by using a Gram negative bacterial component that results in increased tolerance and immunity. Background & Unmet Need: Despite advances of modern medicine, bacterial sepsis remains one of the major threats to human health worldwide. In the US alone, it affects approximately...

Published: 11/25/2024 | Inventor(s): Fu-Shin Yu, Ashok Kumar, Jing Zhang, Linda Hazlett

Keywords(s): Anti-microbial, Asthma

Category(s): Therapeutics, Diseases, Life Science, Infectious disease

Stable Human Fc Receptor-Transformed Cell Lines to Detect Virus-Neutralizing and Enhancing Antibodies

Applications:The invention offers a novel method to screen anti-flavivirus antibodies in blood for neutralizing and replication-enhancing antibodies using Fc gamma R transformed macrophages. Although this invention is immediately applicable to dengue virus infection, in principle it is applicable to any viral pathogen whose replication may be enhanced...

Published: 10/28/2024 | Inventor(s): Jacob Schlesinger, Robert Rose, W.W. Shanaka Rodrigo, Xia Jin

Keywords(s): Vaccine

Category(s): Vaccines