Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7368277 | Method for assay of antibodies and antibody assay device The invention relates to a technology by which antibodies directed to sources of infection in body fluids can be assayed with high accuracy, expediency and specificity. More particularly, the invention provides an antibody immunoassay method in which the antigen-ant... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7361133 | Methods of detection utilizing modified bacteriophage Viruses expressing ligands on their surfaces are used as a detection means for the related polypeptide which binds the ligand. Multiple copies of the ligand can be expressed on the viral surface. These viruses may be used to detect polypeptides, cells, receptors and... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7323179 | Methods and compositions for the treatment and prevention of and other bacterial infections The invention features methods and compositions for treatment or prevention of infection by, or disease caused by infection with, certain species of bacteria, including in particular bacteria in which a RAP-type and/or TRAP-type molecule plays a role in pathogenesis... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7316902 | Compositions that specifically bind to colorectal cancer cells and methods of using the same A unique transcription product, CRCA-1, and alternative translation products generated therefrom, are disclosed. The transcript and its translation products are markers for colorectal cells. Screening and diagnostic reagents, kits and methods for metastasized colore... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7312074 | Chimeric binding peptide library screening method There is described a method of isolating nucleotide sequences encoding target peptides from DNA libraries using DNA binding proteins to link the peptide to the sequence which encodes it. DNA libraries are prepared from cells encoding the protein of interest, or from... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7276364 | Nucleic acids encoding endotheliases, endotheliases and uses thereof Provided herein are endotheliases and portions, particularly, the protease domains, and nucleic acids that encode the endotheliases. The endotheliases are transmembrane proteases expressed in endothelial cells. The nucleic acids and encoded proteins and protease dom... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7270969 | Methods of constructing and screening diverse expression libraries The present invention provides novel methods for producing nucleic acid fragment libraries that express highly diverse peptides or protein domains and, in particular, methods for producing nucleic acid fragment libraries wherein the nucleic acid fragments of the lib... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7208286 | Bioluminescent bioreporter integrated circuit devices and methods for detecting ammonia Monolithic bioelectronic devices for the detection of ammonia includes a microorganism that metabolizes ammonia and which harbors a lux gene fused with a heterologous promoter gene stably incorporated into the chromosome of the microorganism and an Optical Applicati... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7188055 | Method, system, and computer program for displaying chemical data A system, method, and computer program product for visualizing and interactively analyzing data relating to chemical compounds. A user selects a plurality of compounds to map, and also selects a method for evaluating similarity/dissimilarity between the selected com... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7179603 | Detection and identification of enteric bacteria The invention provides probes, antibodies and methods for detecting a gene that is only found in Enterobacteriaceae, the deoxyguanosine triphosphate triphosphohydrolase gene. These probes and methods are useful for the detecting whether test samples, including food ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7172892 | Nucleic acid molecules encoding serine protease CVSP14, the encoded polypeptides and methods based thereon Provided herein are polypeptides designated CVSP14 polypeptides that exhibit protease activity as a single chain or as an activated two chain form. Methods using the polypeptides to identify compounds that modulate the protease activity thereof are provided. The pol... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7169550 | Diffraction-based diagnostic devices A biosensor includes a substrate with a receptive material layer of radiation-absorbing member (RAM)-tagged biomolecules disposed thereon. The receptive material is specific for an analyte of interest. A pattern of active and deactivated areas of the receptive mater... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7138237 | Diagnosis, prevention and treatment of Crohn's disease using the OmpC antigen The present invention provides a method of diagnosing Crohn's disease in a subject by determining the presence or absence of IgA anti-OmpC antibodies in the subject, where the presence of the IgA anti-OmpC antibodies indicates that the subject has Crohn's disease. | 11/21/2006 |
| 7138266 | Bacterial strain of BKIIM B-3996 as the producer of L-threonine A bacterial strain of Escherichia coli is described which produces L-threonine, and is obtained by a process comprising transduction by bacteriophage P1 which bears a transposon which inactivates threonine dehydrogenase activity, and isolation of a transducta... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7136758 | Virtual library searchable for possible combinatorially derived product molecules having desired properties without the necessity of generating product structures The problem of how to select out of a large chemically accessible universe molecules representative of the diversity of that universe is resolved by the discovery of a method to validate molecular structural descriptors. Using the validated descriptors, optimally di... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7135333 | Compositions that specifically bind to colorectal cancer cells and methods of using the same A unique transcription product, CRCA-1, and alternative translation products generated therefrom, are disclosed. The transcript and its translation products are markers for colorectal cells. Screening and diagnostic reagents, kits and methods for metastasized colore... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7125703 | Nucleic acid molecules encoding a transmembrane serine protease 7, the encoded polypeptides and methods based thereon Provided herein are type II transmembrane serine protease 7 (MTSP7) polypeptides. Zymogen and activated forms of these polypeptides as well as single and two chain forms of the protease domain are also provided. Methods using the polypeptides to identify compounds t... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7125679 | Methods to screen peptide libraries using minicell display A minicell display method has been developed which has significant advantages for screening peptide libraries for candidates that can bind and effectively modulate a particular biological process. The method, based on the small, anucleate minicell, has increased ver... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7118873 | Polynucleotides encoding cellular transporters and methods of use thereof This disclosure encompasses the Indy gene, polypeptides encoded by the Indy gene and fragments thereof. This disclosure also encompasses homologs of the Indy gene both from Drosophila and other organisms. In addition, this disclosure encompasses the use of In... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7112430 | Nucleic acid molecules encoding a transmembrane serine protease 10, the encoded polypeptides and methods based thereon Provided herein are type II transmembrane serine protease 10 (MTSP10) polypeptides. Zymogen and activated forms of these polypeptides as well as single and two chain forms of the protease domain are also provided. Methods using the polypeptides to identify compounds... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7105333 | Nucleic acid molecules encoding a transmembrane serine protease 9, the encoded polypeptides and methods based thereon Provided herein are type II transmembrane serine protease 9 (MTSP9) polypeptides. Zymogen and activated forms of these polypeptides as well as single and two chain forms of the protease domain are also provided. Methods using the polypeptides to identify compounds t... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7096162 | Computer-implemented method of merging libraries of molecules using validated molecular structural descriptors and neighborhood distances to maximize diversity and minimize redundancy The use for biological screening purposes of a subset (library) of a large combinatorially accessible chemical universe increases the efficiency of the screening process only if the subset contains members representative of the total diversity of the universe. In or... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7091311 | Peptides and compounds that bind to a receptor Described are peptides and peptide mimetics that bind to and activate the thrombopoietin receptor. Such peptides and peptide mimetics are useful in methods for treating hematological disorders and particularly, thrombocytopenia resulting from chemotherapy, radiation... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7091049 | Enhanced diffraction-based biosensor devices An enhanced diffraction based biosensor system and method are provided for detecting an analyte of interest in a test medium. The system incorporates at least one additional detection tag substance with the analyte of interest, the tag emitting a measurable paramete... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7070928 | Evolving new molecular function Nature evolves biological molecules such as proteins through iterated rounds of diversification, selection, and amplification. The present invention provides methods, compositions, and systems for synthesizing, selecting, amplifying, and evolving non-natural molecul... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7070944 | System for screening fatty acid transport inhibitors, methods of use and modulators identified thereby Methods for identifying modulators of fatty acid transport and/or uptake, comprising contacting, under conditions favorable for fatty acid uptake, a putative modulator, e.g., an inhibitor with a system comprising genetic material encoding a fatty acid transport medi... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7054757 | Method, system, and computer program product for analyzing combinatorial libraries The invention provides for in silico analysis of a virtual combinatorial library. Mapping coordinates for a training subset of products in the combinatorial library, and features of their building blocks, are obtained. A supervised machine learning approach is used ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7041801 | Antibodies binding to polypeptides encoded by developmentally-regulated endothelial cell locus-1 The present invention relates to a member of a novel gene family referred to as developmentally-regulated endothelial cell locus-1 (del-1). In particularly, the invention related to del-1 nucleotide sequences, Del-1 amino acid sequences, methods of expressing a func... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7041811 | Method for detecting Specific nucleic acid sequences, e.g., SEQ ID NOs: 1–8, for detecting Escherichia coli. Also disclosed is a method of detecting Escherichia coli. The method includes providing a sample having a nucleic acid from an unknown microorganism; amplifying t... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7039621 | System, method, and computer program product for representing object relationships in a multidimensional space A method and computer product is presented for mapping n-dimensional input patterns into an m-dimensional space so as to preserve relationships that may exist in the n-dimensional space. A subset of the input patterns is chosen and mapped into the m-dimensional spac... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7033772 | Methods of identifying inhibitors of fatty acid transport proteins (FATP) A family of fatty acid transport proteins (FATPs) mediate transport of long chain fatty acids (LCFAs) across cell membranes into cells. These proteins exhibit different expression patterns among the organs of mammals. Nucleic acids encoding FATPs of this family, vec... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7026162 | Lac shuttle vectors The invention discloses a Lac shuttle vector, comprising at least (a) a region which regulates a plasmid copy number; (b) an eukaryotic gene expression cassette, which comprises at least an eukaryotic gene transcriptional promoter sequence, a multiple cloning site a... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7025971 | Treatment or prophylaxis of diseases caused by pilus-forming bacteria Novel methods for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases caused by tissue-adhering bacteria are disclosed. By interacting with periplasmic molecular chaperones it is achieved that the assembly of pili is prevented or inhibited and thereby the infectivity of th... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7011946 | In vivo assay for identification of antimicrobial agents The present invention provides novel in vivo assay systems and methods of using these assays systems to identify compounds that affect microbial cell division. The present invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions that have anti-microbial activity and m... | 03/14/2006 |
| 6994982 | Isolating biological modulators from biodiverse gene fragment libraries The present invention provides a method for identifying a modulator or mediator of a biological activity, which activity includes antigenicity and or immunogenicity, said method comprising the step of: (i) producing a gene fragment... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6962791 | Treatment or prophylaxis of diseases caused by pilus-forming bacteria Novel methods for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases caused by tissue-adhering bacteria are disclosed. By interacting with periplasmic molecular chaperones it is achieved that the assembly of pili is prevented or inhibited and thereby the infectivity of th... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6958219 | Method for detecting a gram-negative bacterial autoinducer molecule The present invention relates to an immunogenic conjugate comprising a carrier molecule coupled to an autoinducer of a Gram negative bacteria. The immunogenic conjugate, when combined with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, forms a suitable vaccine for mammals t... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6955886 | Scintillation proximity assay for the detection of peptidoglycan synthesis The invention provides a scintillation proximity assay for detecting peptidoglycan synthesis. The assay is especially suitable for high throughput screening of compounds affecting peptidoglycan synthesis. ... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6953663 | Polymorphism detection The present invention generally provides a rapid efficient method for analyzing polymorphic or biallelic markers, and arrays for carrying out these analyses. In general, the methods of the present invention employ arrays of oligonucleotide probes that are complement... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6905691 | Vaccines containing attenuated bacteria The invention relates to a vaccine comprising a bacterium attenuated by a non-reverting mutation in a gene encoding a protein which promotes folding of extracytoplasmic proteins. Such mutations were initially identified as being useful in vaccines from a bank of ran... | 06/14/2005 |
