Joseph Orgel
Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Title: X-ray diffraction reveals the mechanical load tolerance of mammalian nerve, muscle and tendon in traumatically induced injury and the vertebrate identity of fossilized T-rex bone
Biography
Biography: Joseph Orgel
Abstract
Those living with traumatically induced injuries, including but not limited to, Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), face an elevated risk for developing chronic health issues including Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or AD-like dementia and depression. One of the most serious impediments to the study of traumatic injury is the lack of meaningful primary mechanical damage criteria at the molecular level. This study addresses this, through the use of novel imaging technologies such as a newly developed X-ray Diffraction (XRD) scanning methodology, applied to systemically loaded animal models of both brain and connective tissue injury and accompanied by conventional microscopy for cross-correlation of observations. Interestingly, this same technique reveals the state and status of soft tissue preserved in T-rex fossilized bone.
