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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8173694 | Therapeutic agent Provided are agents and methods for use in depleting serum amyloid P component (SAP) from a patient in need thereof. ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8165822 | Reverse progeny mapping Provided is a method for mapping traits in organisms, in particular in plants. The method comprises a) providing a population of SDR-0 organisms, in particular plants, that each arise from one member of a population of unreduced cells resulting from second division ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163317 | Method There is provided a process for the prevention and/or reduction of Maillard reaction in a foodstuff containing (i) a protein, a peptide or an amino acid and (ii) a reducing sugar, the process comprising contacting the foodstuff with an enzyme capable of oxidising a ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163315 | Foodstuff There is provided use of a conversion agent to prepare from a food material a foodstuff comprising at least one functional ingredient, wherein the at least one functional ingredient has been generated from at least one constituent of the food material by the convers... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8153890 | Low area screen printed metal contact structure and method A solar cell comprises adjacent regions of oppositely doped semiconductor material forming a pn junction substantially parallel to front and rear surfaces of the solar cell. A surface of the semiconductor material has a plurality of depressions, with semiconductor m... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8150054 | Adaptive filter in a sensor array system Disclosed is a steerable sensor array that receives input from a target and applies an averaging filter. An adaptive filter is then used if the SNR of the output of the averaging filter reaches a threshold. ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8143487 | Red lettuce The present invention relates to a head-forming lettuce plant of the species Lactuca sativa having red leaves throughout the head, including the heart. The red leaves in the heart are red even in the absence of radiation with wavelengths shorter than 400 nm, ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8124053 | Compositions comprising chitin microparticles and their medical uses The present invention relates to compositions comprising chitin microparticles and their medical uses, and in particular to compositions for use as vaccines which comprise antigen from an infectious agent, a chitin microparticle preparation, and a further adjuvant. | 02/28/2012 |
| 8119342 | Non-destructive procedure for the isolation of DNA from plants Provided is a method for obtaining DNA from a plant by collecting the root border cells from a growing root and extracting DNA from the root border cells. Preferably, the root border cells are contained in the root exudate of the growing root, which is growing in a ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8119144 | HIV-1 Clade A consensus sequences, antigens, and transgenes The present invention relates to consensus nucleotide and protein sequences for HIV-1 Clade A antigens, and to nucleotide and protein sequences for Clade A antigens from circulating HIV-1 field isolates wherein the antigen sequences are closely related to the these ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8118428 | Opthalmic camera and opthalmic camera adaptor An ophthalmic camera (10) comprising a camera (12) having a lens (18) aligned with a second lens (16) and at least one illumination means (14). The illumination means (14) is capable of movement relative to the camera lens (... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8114609 | ADAM12, a novel marker for abnormal cell function The present invention provides a method, an assay and a kit for providing an indication of abnormal cell function. It was surprisingly found that the change in the serum ADAM12 concentration in individuals was useful as a prognostic tool to predict the clinical outc... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8106057 | Dihydroxyphenyl isoindolylmethanones This invention provides methods for treating cancer, particularly hematopoietic tumors of lymphoid or myeloid lineage, prostate cancer, lung cancer, gastrointestinal stromal tumor, breast cancer and melanoma, which comprise administering to the mammal a compound, sa... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8105600 | Method of inducing high-titer neutralizing antibody responses in a host by administering immune complexes comprising anti-HIV-1 Env antibodies and the HIV-1 Env The present relation relates to antigen-antibody complexes for use as prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines for infectious diseases of AIDS. The present invention encompasses the preparation and purification of immunogenic antibody-antigen complexes which are formul... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8101793 | Retinoid derivatives with antiangiogenic, antitumoral and proapoptotic activities Are described compounds of Formula (I) in which R, R′, R″, A, and D have the meanings described in the text, as useful agents in the cure of pathologies characterized by altered angiogenesis and as antitumorals. ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8101648 | Hydroxybenzamide derivatives and their use as inhibitors of HSP90 The invention provides compounds of the formula (I): or salts, tautomers, solvates and N-oxides thereof; wherein R1 is hydrogen; R2 is hydroxy or methoxy; R3 is selected from hydrogen; halog... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8053221 | Enzymes The present invention relates to enzymes and processes. In particular, there is described a host cell transformed or transfected with a nucleic acid encoding a bacterial phytase enzyme and variants thereof. ... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8026096 | In vivo active erythropoietin produced in insect cells Disclosed and claimed is a human erythropoietin (EPO) expressed and produced in Spodoptera frugiperda Sf900+ cell line (ATCC: CRL 12579) transfected with a baculovirus construct containing the EPO gene. The EPO has an in vivo activity of 200,000 U/mg to 500,0... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8016737 | Method for removing a fluid from a container and device therefor Provided is a method for removing a liquid, in particular a supernatant, from a container with a sample, by creating an opening in a container with a sample consisting of solid constituents and a liquid, and subsequently centrifuging the container so as to cause the... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8008548 | Plants with reduced susceptibility to pathogenic oomycetes The present invention relates to a for obtaining a plant showing a reduced susceptibility towards infection with a pathogen, in particular an oomycete, comprising treating MO seeds of a plant species to be modified with a mutagenic agent to obtain M1 seeds and growi... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7993651 | Chimeric human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) immunogens comprising GAG P24-P17 fused to multiple cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) epitopes Disclosed is an immunogen in sterile form suitable for administration to a human subject, the immunogen comprising: at least a portion of the gag protein of HIV, said gag protein being from an HIV clade or having a consensus sequence for one or more HIV clades, and ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7981430 | Multi-clade chimeric immunogens derived from highly conserved regions of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) consensus proteome The present invention provides artificial fusion proteins (AFPs) designed to elicit an anti-HIV immune response, as well as nucleic acid molecules and expression vectors encoding those proteins. The AFPs of the invention may comprise domains from various HIV protein... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7977460 | Compositions comprising coagulation factors IXA and VIII for the treatment of haemophilia A or B The present invention relates to the use of FIXa and FVIII in the preparation of a composition for the treatment of haemophilia A or haemophilia B in a subject which does not present with anti-FVIII antibodies. The present invention further relates to a composition ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7943297 | Analysis of HIV-1 coreceptor use in the clinical care of HIV-1-infected patients A change in viral tropism occurs in many HIV positive individuals over time and can be indicated by a change in coreceptor usage from CCR5 to CXCR4. The change in coreceptor usage to CXCR4 has been shown to correlate with increased disease progression. In patients u... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7910106 | Combinations of SAP depleting agents and anti-SAP antibodies The invention describes the use of an antibody specific for serum amyloid P component, for the treatment or prophylaxis of amyloidosis, and the use of a compound which depletes serum amyloid P component from the circulation in combination with an antibody specific f... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7879601 | Apparatus and methods for producing and using high-density cells and products therefrom Disclosed and claimed is apparatus and methods for the growth of cells to high density, products therefrom and uses thereof. Also disclosed and claimed is the use of this method for the growth to high-density insect cells, such as the Spodoptera frugiperda Sf... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7771978 | β1,4mannosyltransferases The unique function of the gene egghead as a GDP-mannose: Glcβ1-Cer β1,4 mannosyltransferase is disclosed. The invention discloses isolated DNA molecules and DNA constructs encoding fragments of egghead and derivatives thereof by way of amino acid deletions, subst... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7740855 | Inactivated CD8+ T-cells for the treatment of HIV infection A method for the preparation of a T cell vaccine for the treatment of immunodeficient HIV-infected patients is described herein, based on the enrichment of autologous CD4-reactive CD8 T cells. Also described is a protocol for the implementation of T cell vaccination... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7736884 | Metabolically engineered cells for the production of polyunsaturated fatty acids The present invention relates to the construction and engineering of cells, more particularly microorganisms for producing PUFAs with four or more double bonds from non-fatty acid substrates through heterologous expression of an oxygen requiring pathway. The ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7678544 | ADAM12, a novel marker for abnormal cell function The present invention provides a method, an assay and a kit for providing an indication of abnormal cell function. It was surprisingly found that the change in the serum ADAM12 concentration in individuals was useful as a prognostic tool to predict the clinical outc... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7659299 | Compounds inhibiting the binding of sap for treating osteoarthritis Use of an agent capable of inhibiting SAP ligand binding activity or depleting SAP from the plasma of a subject for the production of a medicament for treatment or prevention of osteoarthritis in the subject. ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7615543 | Treatment and prevention of tissue damage An agent for use in medicine, which agent comprises a plurality of ligands covalently co-linked so as to form a complex with a plurality of C-reactive protein (CRP) molecules in the presence thereof, wherein (i) at least two of the ligands are the same or different ... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7498149 | Proteins having effects of controlling cell migration and cell death The present invention relates to proteins which have a role in controlling neuronal cell migration and cell death as well as to the DNA which encode those proteins. It is an object of the present invention to provide control of cell migration and/or cell death by pr... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7481781 | Ultrasound therapy Described and claimed is the combined use of an electric field and ultrasound to ablate a cell or tissue, the use of ultrasound to disrupt a nucleated cell which has previously been electrosensitised by exposure to an electric field, and the use of an electric field... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7476361 | Microfluidics devices and methods of diluting samples and reagents This invention relates to methods and apparatus for performing microanalytic and microsynthetic analyses and procedures. The invention provides a microsystem platform and a micromanipulation device for manipulating the platform that utilizes the centripetal force re... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7399634 | Method of preparing basement membrane, method of constructing basement membrane specimen, reconstituted artificial tissue using the basement membrane specimen and process for producing the same The object of the present invention is to provide a method for preparing a basement membrane comprising extracellular matrices having a function to control morphology, differentiation, proliferation, motility, function expression and the like of cells. This basement... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7371425 | Method for coating substrates with a carbon-based material The present invention relates to a method for coating substrates with a carbon-based material, comprising the steps of at least partially coating a substrate with a polymer film on at least one outside surface of the substrate and carbonizing the polymer film in an ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7355093 | Model animal with overexpression of regucalcin The present invention provides an animal model which overexpresses regucalcin, a calcium-binding protein that is inherently expressed in the liver and the like of the higher animal, and which is characterized by a showing of bone pathology typified by osteoporosis. ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7332644 | Non-human animal model of oligodendrocyte developmental disorder The objects of the present invention is to provide a preventive method for the progress of neuropsychiatric disorders, a therapeutic agent for neuropsychiatric disorders, a screening method thereof, and a therapeutic method through the analysis of the mechanisms lea... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7332326 | Centripetally-motivated microfluidics system for performing in vitro hybridization and amplification of nucleic acids This invention relates to methods and apparatus for performing microanalytic and microsynthetic analyses and procedures. The invention provides a microsystem platform and a micromanipulation device for manipulating the platform that utilizes the centripetal force re... | 02/19/2008 |
