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Polymer-Lipid Particles investigated by Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Project Summary/Abstract Membrane proteins represent approximately 30% of all known proteins but only approximately 1% of all solved protein structures. Despite recent advances...
A supplement to: NIGMS 1R15GM144907-01A1 - Polymer-Lipid Particles investigated by Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
A supplement to: NIGMS 1R15GM144907-01A1 - Polymer-Lipid Particles investigated by Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy In response to: PA-20-272 - Administrative Supplements to Exis...
The population genomics of sexually antagonistic variation in Drosophila
Males and females of many species differ significantly in phenotype, sometimes so much so that the sexes were initially described as different species. Such sexual dimorphism is ro...
Investigating the impact of family drug and alcohol courts (FDACs) on parental offending: a data linkage study
Context Care proceedings, which are triggered when there is risk or actual harm to the child, have increased significantly in recent years. These proceedings typically involve p...
Investigation into the Cellular Effects of Exfoliation in a Novel Human Bioengineered Skin Equivalent
Exfoliation,or removal of the skin's uppermost cells resident in the stratum corneum,is a consequence of many beauty and grooming regimes,most notably,the act of shaving.Shaving is...
Enhancing the Phyre protein modelling resource: prediction of ligand binding and the impact of missense variants
Proteins are the machinery of life. A protein is a long chain of components (amino acid residues) - its sequence. Genome projects are determining the sequences of proteins from man...
AI-Enabled Assessment of Cardiac Function from Echocardiography
Aim of the PhD Project: Develop deep learning techniques for automated interpretation of echocardiography images and train/evaluate them using large-scale datasets. Automated c...
Striatal astrocytic mechanisms underlying the development of compulsive drug seeking habits
Drug addiction is a chronic, relapsing, brain disorder that afflicts many people in the UK and internationally, placing enormous burdens on health, social and criminal justice syst...
Silencing and reactivation of antimicrobial resistance genes in Enterobacteriaceae
The rising number of antimicrobial resistant bacterial infections threaten global public health. Bacteria can obtain antimicrobial resistant genes (ARG) on mobile genetic elements,...
The role of the endocannabinoid system and cannabis use in the expression of psychosis
Psychotic illnesses are a major cause of mortality and cause a financial burden of £12 billion per annum in England. There is a pressing need to understand which individuals...
Neurotechnology for Chronic Pain
At least 20% of the UK population suffer from clinically significant chronic pain, making chronic pain almost unparalleled in its clinical and socioeconomic impact. The problem is...
Sensory Navigation: Reading the Sensescape of a City
How can mapping the Sensescape of the city of Reading's pedestrianised urban areas improve the user experience of neurodivergent women over the age of 18? Can wayfinding and embo...
Reducing the impact of no-shows in healthcare by data-driven patient scheduling
Patients who miss their appointments, referred to as "no-shows" or "did not attend" (DNA), have detrimental effect on healthcare delivery performance. They wast...
Unhealthy ageing and memory loss associated with vascular insufficiency
Perivascular astrocytes are abundant in the brain and form a physical bridge between neurons and blood vessels. In addition, astrocytes control neurovascular coupling that serves t...
Treatment of Alzheimer's disease by clearing both tau and amyloid beta pathologies
PROJECT SUMMARY Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Nearly six million Americans suffer from AD, at an annual cost of almost $300 b...
RUI: Leaf as a Biodegradable Material for Electronic Components
As the global household income continues to rise and the overall cost of electronic components continues to fall, a record number of electronic devices are produced every year to s...
Treatment of Alzheimer's disease by clearing both tau and amyloid beta pathologies
PROJECT SUMMARY Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Nearly six million Americans suffer from AD, at an annual cost of almost $300 b...
Physiology and Behavior Core
ABSTRACT—PHYSIOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR (PB) CORE Numerous physiological and behavioral causes, complications and consequences of diabetes and obesity can be assessed in mouse models. K...
CAREER:Shape Memory Polymers as Biomaterial
Non-technical Description: You may have heard about heat shrink tubing. These shrinkable plastic tubes are typically used to insulate unprotected wires to protect them against abr...
Collaborative Research: Improving Worker Safety by Understanding Risk Compensation as a Latent Precursor of At-risk Decisions
Workers may fall prey to certain cognitive biases as shortcuts that result in judgment errors and risky decisions, such as risk compensation. The risk-compensation bias argues that...