Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

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Mouse Models for Protein Granule Diseases

Overload of protein granules in cells induces many forms of diseases, and is especially found in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis as well as...
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Wei Guo | P210193US01

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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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Methods Of Making Unbiased Phage Libraries

Described herein is a method of preparing an unbiased library of phage variants,comprising (a) preparing a population of “acceptor phage”; (b) removing an endogenoustarget gene and inserting gene ...
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Srivatsan Raman, Phil Huss | P200126US02

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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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Kras Conditional Knockout Allele

Differentiation of normal stem cells into the correct cell lineage is a tightly controlled process that involves cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions as well as signaling through cellu...
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Jing Zhang | P210181US01

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SARS-CoV-2 Polymerase Production

Coronaviruses are a group of RNA viruses that can cause disease. Some, such as the common cold, can cause mild disease, while others, such as COVID-19, can be lethal. An unusual characteristic of coro...
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Robert Kirchdoerfer | P210033US01

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Model System for Identifying Anti-Cancer Agents

The Hedgehog (Hh) signaling pathway is conserved in animals as diverse as fruit flies and humans. This pathway is involved in embryological development, and activation of the pathway in adult tissues ...
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Vladimir Spiegelman, Neehar Bhatia | P07243US02

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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines For Fragile X Research

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the most common form of inherited intellectual disability and is closely linked with autism. The genetic basis of FXS is an expansion of CGG repeats in the 5'-untransla...
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Anita Bhattacharyya Consigny, Su-Chun Zhang, Leonard Abbeduto | P160138US02

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Plasmids And Cell Lines Expressing The DMPK 3'UTR

The UW Madison researchers' invention is a set of plasmid constructs and cell lines developed to investigate the effects of RNA toxicity in myotonic dystrophy. The inventor created two constructs ...
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Mani Mahadevan, Jeffrey Amack | P210221US01

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