Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Technology

FORWARD PROGRAMMED BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER MODEL

UW-Madison researchers have developed a method for differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into endothelial cells (ECs) resulting in a model having improved fidelity to BBB gene expres...
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Eric Shusta, Sean Palecek, Sarah Boutom, Yunfeng Ding, Soniya Tamhankar | P240333US02

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Keratinocyte Cell Line (From Little Brown Bat)

UW-Madison researchers have developed an immortalized keratinocyte cell line from the little brown bat (a species that is now endangered). They utilized that cell line to create a model of bat hiberna...
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Bruce Klein, Marcos Isidoro | P240382US01

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VACO6

A UW-Madison researcher has established a cell line, called VACO6, from a discarded tissue specimen of a surgically resected primary human colon cancer. The detailed characteristics of the clinical do...
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James Willson | P230180US01

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PROBIOTIC STRAIN COLLECTION TO STUDY PROPHAGES

UW-Madison researchers have developed a number of variants of lytic strain L. reuteri ∆Φ1attB1∆Φ2∆attB2 (WARF case P170020). They are: L. reuteri∆Φ1, in which prophage #1 is deleted from th...
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Jan Peter Van Pijkeren, Jeehwan Oh | P230139US01

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Immortalized Vocal Fold Fibroblasts

Normal vibration of vocal folds (aka vocal cords) depends on the tissue's composition and viscoelasticity. When that composition is altered by scarring or damage, the vibratory functionality of th...
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Susan Thibeault, Xia Chen | P190232US01

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SufFeSient Cells

The commercially available E. coli strain BL21 λDE3 is commonly used for inducibly overexpressing recombinant proteins. Many derivatives of BL21 cells have been developed and commercialized, with pro...
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Patricia Kiley, Erin Mettert | P190138US01

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Vq Myeloma Cell Lines

UW Madison researchers' present invention is a set of two, new transgenic mouse multiple myeloma (MM) cell lines. Transgenic mice were developed expressing mutations in RAS pathway genes found in ...
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Jing Zhang | P210035US01

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Human Basal Cell Carcinoma Cell Line UW-BCC1

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common type of skin cancer, with around 3 million cases diagnosed each year. BCC involves the basal cells, which are in the deepest layer of the epidermis, the o...
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Vladimir Spiegelman, Felicite Noubissi Kamdem | P140339US01

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CHO Cell Line Expressing HERG-1 Potassium Channels

HERG-1 (human ether-a-go-go-related gene) potassium channels mediate repolarization of cardiac action potentials. Loss of function mutations in hERG-1 can result in long QT syndrome, an inherited diso...
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Gail Robertson, Barry Ganetzky, Jeffrey Warmke, Matthew Trudeau, Samuel Breit, Terence Campbell, Bruce Walker, Stella Valenzuela | P00082US

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