...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20080064037 | RNA-SELECTIVE PROBES FOR LIVE CELL IMAGING OF NUCLEAR STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION The present invention is directed to fluorescent compounds and methods of making said compounds that selectively bind to cellular RNA. The fluorescent compounds of the present invention are useful for live cell imaging applications. ... | 03/13/2008 |
| 20080050383 | IMMUNOTHERAPY FOR CLEARING PATHOLOGICAL TAU CONFORMERS The present invention relates to methods of treating and preventing Alzheimer's Disease or other tauopathies in a subject by administering a tau protein, its immunogenic epitopes, or antibodies recognizing the tau protein or its immunogenic epitopes under conditions eff... | 02/28/2008 |
| 20070197772 | METHODS FOR PREPARING INTERNALLY CONSTRAINED PEPTIDES AND PEPTIDOMIMETICS The present invention relates to a method for preparing a peptide having a stable, internally constrained alpha-helical, beta-sheet/beta-turn, 310-helical, or pi-helical region and a method of stabilizing an alpha-helical, beta-sheet/beta-turn, 310... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20050180976 | Method for screening transcriptional coregulatory proteins of transcription factors, and androgen receptor transcriptional coregulatory proteins as targets for androgen receptor-dependent diseases The present invention also provides a method for screening and isolating transcriptional coregulatory proteins of transcription factors. Using this method, a new class of proteins, androgen receptor transcriptional coregulatory proteins, that interact with the androgen ... | 08/18/2005 |