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METHOD TO MAKE CO-, AND NI-SUBSTITUTED HEME PROTEINS

UW-Madison researchers have developed a method for making CoPPIX. As before, the method leverages E. coli BL21 grown in the presence of iron and cobalt, but with some notable adjustments, including th...
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Andrew Buller, Lydia Perkins, Brian Weaver, Judith Burstyn | P240072US01

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Pb-HPSMA Transgenic Mice

UW-Madison researchers have developed a novel strain of transgenic mice that expresses human prostate-specific membrane antigen (hPSMA) downstream of a prostate-specific probasin promoter. These mice ...
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Douglas McNeel, Daeun Shim | P260046US01

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THERAPEUTIC PEPTIDES AND METHODS OF PEPTIDE DESIGN

UW-Madison researchers, in collaboration with researchers from University of Illinois Chicago, have developed a de novo peptide design strategy that combines organic synthesis, phage display, and mole...
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Seungpyo Hong, Petr Král, Piper Rawding, Francesco Coppola | P240330US02

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STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS STRAIN COLLECTION

A UW-Madison researcher has compiled a large collection of Staphylococcus saprophyticus strains from various sources, and the present disclosure refers to a set of 100 clinical human samples from that...
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Caitlin Pepperell | P260153US01

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SYSTEM FOR DETECTING AMYLOID BETA OLIGOMER BINDERS

UW-Madison researchers have developed a new way to select protein and cyclic peptide binders of amyloid-β (Aβ) oligomers. This innovation uses a transcription factor that the inventors previously en...
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Tina Wang, Byung Uk Lee | P240145US02

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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 Milind Tamhankar | P240333US02

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Methods of Phage Gene Manipulation and Profiling

UW-Madison researchers have developed Phage Gene Manipulation and Profiling, PhageMap, a method for generating barcoded knockout libraries for every gene within a phage genome through homologous recom...
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Srivatsan Raman, Jackie Chen | P240244US02

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DEGRADATION TARGETING AGENTS AND USES THEREOF

UW-Madison researchers have discovered two peptides, HLTF;zf-C3HC4 and RO52;zf-C3HC4 (hereafter referred to as the HLTF peptide and the RO52 peptide) which, when tethered to a protein induce degradati...
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Gaelen Hess, Grace Boyum | P250015US03

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Yeast-Based Intein Platform for Drug Production

The therapeutic and biochemical properties of proteins including antibodies can be enhanced by custom chemical functionalization that enables modifications, such as small molecule drug conjugation, PE...
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Eric Shusta, Cathryn Marshall | P150056US02

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HaloTag-Tau Rat Model

A UW-Madison researcher has developed a rat model for studying the dynamic nature of the protein Tau, a protein implicated in numerous neurological diseases including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s d...
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Anjon Audhya | P250365US01

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Device For Facilitating The Imaging Of Biological Entities

UW-Madison researchers have developed a microfluidic flow cell for EM sample grid preparation. The two-piece device was designed so that EM substrates (grids or disks) could be placed within a central...
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Elizabeth Wright, Nicholas Rienstra, Steve Garvis, Juan Sanchez | P240253US01

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