Did You Know...
...that while attempting to develop a super strong glue, 3M employee Spencer Silver accidentally developed a glue that was so weak it would barely hold two pieces of paper together? However, his colleague Art Fry needed the glue. Fry sang with his church choir and marked the pages of his hymnal with small scraps of paper that often fell out. He used Silver's glue to hold the papers in place. Today we call this invention Post-it Notes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7605133 | Isolated peptides to treat alpha-synuclein diseases The present invention relates to drug screening methods and methods of preventing neural tissue damage caused by α-synuclein aggregation. These methods are especially useful in the design and development of inhibitors of Lewy body diseases and other synucleinopathi... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7521479 | Methods of treating prion disease in mammals The invention is related to the treatment of prion-related diseases such as the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) in mammals by administering chaotropic agents to or inducing a hyperthermia state in the affected mammals. ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7456179 | Methods of treating ischemic related conditions The present invention relates to methods of treating ischemia-related conditions by administering to a patient in need of such methods certain thiosemicarbazone compounds. Preferred embodiments of the present invention relates to methods of treating specific ischemi... | 11/25/2008 |
| 6780971 | Compositions for inhibiting the aggregation pathway of α-synuclein The present invention provides methods of determining aggregation of α-synuclein, which are a hallmark of Lewy body diseases such as Parkinson's disease. Also disclosed are inhibitors of the aggregation, including magnesium and α-synuclein binding peptides. The in... | 08/24/2004 |
