The present technology from this UW Madison researcher is a germinant mixture that includes a) a bile acid main germinant, b) an amino acid co-germinant, c) an edible spore solubilizing agent, and d) ...
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UW-Madison researchers have isolated and characterized a BA.2 strain of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.
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UW-Madison researchers have isolated and characterized a BA.1 strain of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.
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UW Madison researchers have provided herein biodegradable polymers and nanoparticles comprising such polymers. The present nanoparticles deliver antibiotics to infected tissue with enhanced antibacter...
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Biochemically active PASTA kinase inhibitors which exploit subtle structural differences between human kinases and bacterial PASTA kinases to improve specificity and inhibitor activity.
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Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is a severe and highly fatal hemorrhagic fever that affects humans and other mammals. It is caused by the Ebola virus, a single-stranded RNA virus that encodes seven structur...
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Every year worldwide, millions of people experience morbidity and mortality as a consequence of severe fungal disease. In the United States, mortality from invasive fungal disease is approximately 50 ...
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Provided herein are polymer-drug conjugates with enhanced antibacterial efficacy. These conjugates include a polymer comprising a plurality of masked cationic functional groups and an antibiotic drug ...
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A method of inhibiting HPV virus infection is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method involves exposing a papillomavirus to an effective amount of a compound selected from the group consisting of Com...
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The invention provides a composition useful to prepare high titer influenza viruses, e.g., in the absence of helper virus, which includes internal genes from an influenza virus vaccine strain or isola...
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Antimicrobial agents that can serve as replacements to conventional pharmaceutical antibiotics are disclosed. The antimicrobial agents comprise conjugatively transmissible plasmids that kill targeted ...
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The present invention relates to methods of use of glycosyltransferases and related compounds. The invention exploits the reversibility of glycosyltransferases to generate new sugars, unnatural biomol...
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Compounds that regulate quorum sensing in Staphylococcal bacteria and in particular in Staphylococcus aureus are provided. Compounds are described in formulas I, II, III, IV, V and VI herein. One or m...
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Disclosed herein are circular zymogens of RNase 1 that have a proteolytic cleavage site and are activated by a specific protease. These circular zymogens are useful for treatment of disorders that are...
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Compounds of formula (I) or formula (II), compositions and methods useful for treating and/or preventing a fungal infections are provided. wherein the substituents are as defined in the appended claim...
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The present disclosure relates provides compounds according to Formula I or Formula II as well as compositions including such compounds useful for the prevention of schistosomiasis infection and/or sw...
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Cyphomycin, an isolated compound of Formula I or IA is provided. A compound isolated from insect Streptomyces and having a chemical formula of C77H122O26 is also provided. Compositions including Cypho...
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The present invention discloses an ionic liquid composition comprising an at least partially hydrophobic ionic liquid, wherein the at least partially hydrophobic ionic liquid comprises a dication comp...
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Drug resistant pathogens continue to emerge as the rate of the development of new antimicrobials to combat them continues to decline. Alarmingly, slow-growing bacteria associated with dangerous and pr...
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Staphylococcus epidermidis is an important Gram-negative bacterial pathogen in hospital-acquired infections, and the most common cause of infections on indwelling medical devices. The costs related to...
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The epigenetic modifier SIRT6 is of the sirtuin class of proteins. In transgenic mice, increased SIRT6 expression lowers LDL and triglyceride levels, improves glucose tolerance and increases mitochond...
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Bacterial resistance to antibiotics is an escalating problem, especially in hospital settings. The Centers for Disease Control recently identified Clostridium difficile as posing an “urgent” healt...
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Podophyllotoxin is a natural product derived from a plant. Although two clinically useful glycosylated analogs have been developed for treating cancer, podophyllotoxin is difficult to synthesize, hind...
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Many common bacterial pathogens delay virulence factor production until there is a sufficient number of cells that – working together – can overwhelm a host’s defense. To coordinate such...
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HIV infection, AIDS and AIDS-related complex (ARC) remain serious and ongoing diseases compromising the human immune system. Protease inhibitors, which interfere with the replication cycle of HIV, are...
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