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Kiran Bhadriraju, Michael Halter, Julien M. Amelot, Peter Bajcsy, Joe Chalfoun, Antoine Vandecreme, Barbara Mallon, Kye-yoon Park, John T. Elliott, Subhash Sista, Anne L. Plant
Identification of critical characteristics of therapeutically active cells, and quantification of those characteristics, are essential for assuring consistency and potency of cell therapy products. We have developed image analysis and visualization
Alexander J. Neumann, Timothy Quinn, Stephanie J. Bryant
Photopolymerizable and hydrolytically labile poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogels formed from photo-clickable reactions were investigated as cell delivery platforms for cartilage tissue engineering (TE). PEG hydrogels were formed from thiol-norbornene PEG
Kathryn E. Keenan, Karl F. Stupic, Michael A. Boss, Stephen E. Russek, Thomas L. Chenevert, Pottumarthi V. Prasad, Wilburn E. Reddick, Jie Zheng, Peng Hu, Edward F. Jackson
We used the ISMRM/NIST system phantom to assess variations of T1 measurements across MRI systems at 1.5 T and 3 T, to determine the repeatability and reproducibility of the T1 measurements. This study demonstrates that T1 variations from NMR-measured value
Justin M. Zook, Marc L. Salit, Russ B. Altman, Arend Sidow, Rachel Goldfeder, Euan Ashley, Elizabeth Mansfield
The Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) is a national effort in the United States to enable a new era of medicine through research, technology, and policies that empower patients, researchers, and providers to work together toward development of
Yasmine C. Daniels, William A. MacCrehan, Shinichiro Muramoto, Gheorghe NMN Stan, Vitaly Vodyanoy, Oleg Pustovyy
Zinc and copper metal nanoparticles were produced from bulk metal rods by an underwater high-voltage discharge method. The metal nanoparticles, with estimated diameters of 1 nm to 2 nm, were determined to be more than 85 % non-oxidized. Exposure of rat RG2
Erdem Coskun, Pawel Jaruga, Miral M. Dizdar, Natalie Gassman, Samuel Wilson
Background: Exposure to the environmental endocrine disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) has been reported to alter global gene expression, induce epigenetic modifications, and interfere with the complex regulatory networks of cells. In addition to these
M Miral Dizdar, Aaron C. Jacobs, Nathan Donley, Ajit Jadhav, Dorjbal Dorjsuren, David Maloney, Anton Simeonov, Pawel Jaruga, Erdem Coskun, Amanda K. McCullough, R. S. Lloyd
Ionizing radiation and most chemotherapeutic agents kill tumor cells by damaging DNA. The efficacy of DNA-damaging agents may be influenced by increased DNA repair capacity in tumors that results from overexpression of DNA repair proteins. Inhibition of
Alec Nielsen, Bryan Der, Jonghyeon Shin, Prashant Vaidyanathan, Douglas Densmore, Vanya M. Paralanov, Elizabeth Strychalski, David J. Ross, Christopher Voigt
Computation can be performed in living cells using DNA-encoded circuits that process sensory information and control biological functions. Their construction is time-intensive, requiring manual part assembly and balancing of regulator expression. We
A major initiative of the Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Alliance (QIBA) is to develop standards-based documents called Profiles, which describe one or more technical performance claims for a given imaging modality. The term actor denotes any entity
Elizabeth A. Strychalski, Clyde A. Hutchinson III, Ray-Yuan Chuang, Vladimir Noskov, Nacyra Assad-Garcia, Tom J. Deerinck, Mark H. Ellisman, John Gill, Krishna Kannan, Bogumil J. Karas, Li Ma, James F. Pelletier, Zhi-Qing Qi, Alexander Richter, Lijie Sun, Yo Suzuki, Billyana Tsvetanova, Kim S. Wise, Hamilton O. Smith, John I. Glass, Chuck Merryman, Daniel G. Gibson, J. C. Venter
We used whole-genome design and complete chemical synthesis to minimize the 1079kilobase pair synthetic genome of Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0. An initial design, based on collective knowledge of molecular biology combined with limited transposon
M Miral Dizdar, Aaron C. Jacobs, Nathan Donley, Marcus J. Calkins, Ajit Jadhav, Dorjbal Dorjsuren, David Maloney, Anton Simeonov, Amanda K. McCullough, R S. Lloyd, Erdem Coskun, Pawel Jaruga
Introduction: Ionizing radiation and most chemotherapeutic agents kill tumor cells by damag-ing DNA. The efficacy of DNA-damaging agents may be influenced by increased DNA repair capacity in tumors that results from overexpression of DNA repair proteins
Samuel P. Forry, Meggan C. Madonna, Daneli Lopez-Perez, Nancy J. Lin, Madeleine D. Pasco
ABSTRACT: Manual and automated methods were compared for routine screening of compounds for antimicrobial activity. Automation generally accelerated assays and required less user intervention while producing comparable results. Automated protocols were
Maritoni Litorja, Simon Lorenzo, Banghe Zhu, Eva Sevick Muraca
The use of tissue phantoms as calibrators to transfer SI-referenced scale to an imager offers convenience, compared to other methods of calibration. The tissue phantoms are calibrated separately for radiance at emission wavelength per irradiance at
Justin M. Zook, James Priest, Rachel Goldfeder, Megan Grove, Daryl Waggott, Matthew Wheeler, Euan Ashley, Marc L. Salit
As next-generation sequencing is becoming routinely applied to clinical care, the predictive characteristics and limitations of whole exome and whole genome sequencing need to be well-understood. The Genome in a Bottle Consortium has recently published a
Jeffrey W. Hudgens, Richard Y. Huang, Emma D'Ambro
The chapter examines method validation and measurement standards for measuring protein dynamics by hydrogen/deuterium exchange mass spectrometry. Topics examined include the rationale for a reference measurement system for HDX-MS, attaining high accuracy
Nathanael D. Olson, Rene S. Hendriksen, Susanne K. Pedersen, Mette V. Larsen, Jamie N. Pedersen, Oksana Lukjancenko, Rolf S. Kaas, Pimlapas Leekitcharoenphon, Lasse Bergmark, Inge M. Hansen, Vitali Sintchenko, William J. Wolfgang, Henrik T. Westh, Jacob Moran-Gilad, Isabel Cuesta, Angel Zaballos, Brian Beck, Anthony Underwood, Errol Strain, James Pettengill
Wojtek J. Tutak, Carl Simon Jr., Jyotsnendu J. Giri, Peter Bajcsy
Recent work has shown that osteoprogenitor cell culture on nanofiber scaffolds can promote differentiation. This response may be driven by changes in cell morphology caused by the 3D structure of nanofibers. Herein, we hypothesized that nanofiber effects
Lili Wang, Heba Degheidy, Fatima Abbasi, Howard Mostowski, Gerald Marti, Steven R. Bauer, Robert Hoffman, Adolfas K. Gaigalas
Multicolor flow cytometer assays are with fluorescently labeled antibodies routinely used in clinical laboratories to measure the cell number of specific immunophenotypes and to estimate expression levels of specific receptors/antigens either on the cell
Jeri S. Roth, Paul A. Rudnick, Sanford Markey, Yuri Mirokhin, Xinjian Yan, Dmitrii Tchekhovskoi, Stephen Stein, Nathan J. Edwards, Ratna R. Thangudu, Karen A. Ketchum, Christopher R. Kinsinger, Mehdi Mesri, Henry Rodriguez
The Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC) has produced large proteomics datasets from the mass spectrometric interrogation of tumor samples previously studied by The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) program. The availability of the genomic and
Alexis M. Temkin, Robert R. Bowers, Margaret E. Magaletta, Steven Holshouser, Adriana Maggi, Paolo Ciana, Louis J. Guillette Jr., John Bowden, John E. Baatz, Demetri D. Spyropoulos, John Kucklick
Background: Product safety testing typically involves lethal toxicity assessments, which likely miss long- term health impacts. Optimizing long-term product safety is critical for widespread chemical use. The obesity epidemic exemplifies a condition based
Justin M. Zook, Hemang M. Parikh, Desu Chen, Hariharan K. Iyer, Marc L. Salit, Wolfgang Losert
The human genome contains variants ranging in size from small single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to large structural variants (SVs). While high-quality benchmark small variant calls have recently been developed by the Genome in a Bottle Consortium, no
Carl G. Simon Jr., John Test, Michael Yaszemski, Reto Luginbuehl, Anthony Ratcliffe, Paul Tomlins
A Workshop on Standards & Measurements for Tissue Engineering Scaffolds was held on May 21, 2013 and was sponsored by the American Society of Testing and Materials International (ASTM International) in Indianapolis, IN. The purpose of the workshop was to
Chen Chen, Cheng Lei, Michael D. Weir, Nancy Lin, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Xuedong Zhou
Recent studies developed antibacterial bonding agents and composites containing dimethylaminododecyl methacrylate (DMADDM). The objectives of this study were to: (1) explore the effect of antibacterial primers containing DMADDM on inhibiting the
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) is not routinely used in applied settings due to lack of confidence in results. This workshop convened experts to identify measurement challenges impeding NGS implementation and potential standards-based solutions to