• FAILURE MECHANISMS OF PEDIATRIC GROWING ROD CONSTRUCTS 

  Hill, Genevieve A-L. (2017)

  Early onset scoliosis (EOS) affects a vulnerable population of young children, and occurs at critical ages when the spine and thorax are developing. Children suffering with EOS have higher mortality rates due to cardiopulmonary ...

• TOWARDS A GENETICALLY-ENGINEERED BACTERIUM FOR GASTROINTESTINAL WOUND HEALING 

  Virgile, Chelsea (2017)

  Society and physicians frequently associate the increase of antibiotic-resistant bacteria with the overuse of antibiotics. This proposes a question, “Why use antibiotics to fight bacteria and risk resistance, when one could ...

• DETERMINING THE EFFECT OF EXTRACELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT ON TROPHOBLAST INVASION USING A BIOPRINTED PLACENTA MODEL 

  Kuo, Che-Ying (2017)

  Preeclampsia is a leading cause of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality, affecting 8% of all pregnancies. Currently, the only effective treatment for preeclampsia is the premature delivery of the fetus and placenta ...

• Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy technologies and techniques for on-site quantification of chemical and biological analytes 

  Restaino, Stephen Mario (2017)

  The rapid advancement in mobile devices has illustrated the widening technological gap in health and environmental sensing. Unfortunately, the time and financial burdens imposed by the current central lab model prohibit ...

• The Influence of Vimentin Intermediate Filaments on Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Response to Physical Stimuli 

  Sharma, Poonam (2017)

  Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are increasingly being investigated as a therapeutic cell population for a variety of diseases. However, these therapies are limited by an imperfect understanding of how MSCs interact with and ...

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