• SIMPLIFIED NUCLEIC ACID ISOLATION AND DETECTION TECHNIQUES FOR POINT-OF-CARE APPLICATIONS 

  Nanayakkara, Imaly Anoshka (2019)

  The first step towards the treatment of any disease is diagnosis; however, a major hindrance towards monitoring diseases remains the availability of rapid diagnostic tests to detect DNA and RNA biomarkers.Unfortunately, ...

• A TISSUE-ENGINEERED PLACENTAL BARRIER MODEL FOR TOXICOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY APPLICATIONS 

  Arumugasaamy, Navein (2019)

  Throughout history, there have been two major instances where a substance caused thousands of birth defects, yet it took a few years for the causation to be noted: thalidomide, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and Zika ...

• DEVELOPMENT OF AN ENDOTHELIAL CELL/MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL COCULTURE STRATEGY FOR THE VASCULARIZATION OF ENGINEERED BONE TISSUE. 

  Piard, Charlotte Marianne (2019)

  In the past two decades, remarkable progress has been made in the development of surgical techniques for bone reconstruction, significantly improving clinical outcomes. However, major reconstruction after trauma or cancer ...

• ACTUATION OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL HARD NANOPARTICLES FOR ACTIVELY CONTROLLED DRUG RELEASE 

  Sangtani, Ajmeeta (2019)

  Systemic drug delivery relies on repeated dosing of large concentrations of poorly targeted drug leading to off-target toxicity. Recently, nanoparticle (NP)-mediated drug delivery (NMDD) has been developed as an approach ...

• PRUSSIAN BLUE NANOIMMUNOTHERAPIES FOR NEUROBLASTOMA 

  Cano-Mejia, Juliana (2019)

  Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor in children, accounting for 15% of cancer-related deaths. Despite improvements in diagnosis and surgical techniques, neuroblastoma remains challenging to treat due ...

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