Christina M. Kraemer-Chant

TL;DR: A feasibility study on the utility of the axial-shear strain elastograms in the classification of in vivo breast tumor as being benign or malignant suggests that for the discriminant feature value of 0.46, the number of unnecessary biopsies could be reduced by 56.3% without compromising on sensitivity and on negative predictive value (NPV).

TL;DR: The preliminary results reported in this paper suggest that it may be feasible to perform poroelastography in different lymphedematous tissues in vivo and that poroElastography techniques may be of help in differentiating between normal and lyMPhedem atous tissues.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate that the NASSA feature derived from ASSE has the potential to improve BIRADS breast lesion classification of fibroadenoma and malignant tumors.

TL;DR: This experiment utilizes exonuclease digestion of DNA to show students how base interactions and secondary structure can alter the spectroscopic properties of a sample and, by extension, how apparent concentration as calculated with Beer–Lambert's law is not necessarily representative of the true concentration of DNA in solution.

TL;DR: The hairpin ribozyme is utilized to develop a new tool for mapping nucleobase-stacking interactions and potential metal-binding sites in RNA molecules, and it is determined that this crosslinking is pH-sensitive, although the cause of this sensitivity remains unknown.