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Johns Hopkins University

Wayne E Moore

John H Staehlin

H Lee Mantelmacher

Gad Alon

Edward M Land

Marlis Gonzalez-Fernandez

Rebecca German

Ken Silver

A hand movement device comprises a glove for positioning about a hand of a user, a first anchor element adapted to be positioned about a base surface of glove, a second anchor element adapted to be positioned at a tip of a finger portion of the glove, an active spring member positioned between the first and second anchor elements, said active spring member being fixedly secured to said first anchor element and moveable through said second anchor element to thereby allow said spring member to bend about a joint of the finger when said finger is flexed, an activating element positioned adjacent the active spring member to heat or cool said active spring member thereby causing the spring member to bend or straighten, and an intermediary support device for housing said spring element and for connecting the first anchor element to said second anchor element.

Active hand-extension/flexion device

The sensitivity and durability of fluorescent assays may be increased through structures and methods using plasmon fluorescence augmentation and sealing of the structure against degradation by reagents used in the assay. The resulting structures make practical extremely sensitive fluorescent assays for DNA and other biological analytes.

Plasmon fluorescence augmentation for chemical and biological testing apparatus

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Columbia, MD, United States of America

Wayne E Moore