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Modified E. coli for Enhanced Production of Pyruvate, Ethanol
Pyruvate is a starting material for synthesizing a variety of biofuels and chemicals. It can be readily converted into more than 60 commercial chemicals, including ethanol and several active pharmaceu...
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Jennifer Reed, Xiaolin Zhang | P140301US02
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High-Throughput Genome Editing and Engineering of Industrial Yeast, Other Fungi
As the industrial uses of yeast and other fungi expand, new systems are needed to genetically optimize strains for their intended use. In particular, the ability to manipulate prototrophic and diploid...
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Christopher Hittinger, William Alexander | P140240US03
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Poly(UG) Polymerase: A Useful New RNA Tool
Enzymes called ribonucleotidyl transferases (NTases) add nucleotides to the ends of RNAs. At present only a few such enzymes are known, such as poly(A) polymerases and poly(U) polymerases. The selecti...
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Marvin Wickens, Melanie Preston | P140268US02
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Circulating Tumor Cell Assay Using Simple Blood Draw
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) are cells shed from tumor deposits that flow into the bloodstream. They are detected at a frequency of about one CTC per one billion surrounding blood cells. The great h...
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David Beebe, Joshua Lang, Ben Casavant, Scott Berry, Lindsay Strotman | P130171US01
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Accurate Determination of Metabolite Concentrations in Cell Extracts or Biological Fluids
Metabolomics, or the systematic study of all metabolites in an organism, is one of the fastest growing areas of scientific research. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is one tool used to a...
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John Markley, Ian Lewis, William Westler, Qiu Cui, Gabriel Cornilescu, Marco Tonelli | P07362US
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Fluorescent Ligand Complexes with Strong Fluorescence in the Far-Red Region for Tissue and Cell Labeling
Biomarker engineering and development has evolved to answer infinitely complex biological questions and the discovery of novel molecules could provide additional tools for biotechnology. Fluorescent r...
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Wayne Schaefer, Ramaswamy Subramanian, Daniel Ferraro, Chi Yu, David Gibson, Swagatha Ghosh, P. Sai Sudha | T100009US02
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Nanopore Antennas for Ultrahigh Speed DNA Sequencing
‘Nanopore sequencing’ allows a single molecule such as DNA to be analyzed without conventional tools like chemical labels or costly optical instruments. In the process, DNA strands and a stream of...
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Robert Blick, Abhishek Bhat, Paul Gwozdz | P140109US01
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New Mass Spectrometry Detector Uses Optically Active Membrane
Mass spectrometers are analytical instruments that can precisely measure the mass of molecules to determine their composition and identity. Generally, the molecules are ionized and then accelerated by...
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Robert Blick, Jonathan Rodriguez, Hyunseok Kim, Zlatan Aksamija, Wolfgang Hansen, Christian Heyn | P140174US01
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Multiplexed Mass Spectrometry Quantification with Neutron-Encoded Mass Tags
In the past decade, cataloguing the thousands of proteins present in a cell using mass spectrometry (MS) has matured into a procedure both deeply vital and straightforward. Yet discovering how such mo...
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Joshua Coon, Alexander Hebert | P130032US01
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Reprogrammed Stem Cell Line for Research: IISH4i-CBT4
Reprogramming blood cells to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) provides a novel tool for studying hematopoietic development in vitro.
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Igor Slukvin, Kejin Hu, James Thomson | P120130US02
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Reprogrammed Stem Cell Line for Research: IISH3i-CB6
Reprogramming blood cells to induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) provides a novel tool for studying blood development in vitro.
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Igor Slukvin, Kejin Hu, James Thomson | P120130US01
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Synthesis of High-Density Oligomer Microarrays
To save time and costs, many alternatives to conventional DNA sequencing have been proposed. One approach utilizes an array of oligonucleotide probes (short nucleic acid chains) synthesized by photoli...
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Franco Cerrina, Viktoriya Golovkina | P05183US
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New Disulfide-Bond Reducing Agent
Disulfide bonds between cysteine residues are the most common crosslinking agents in proteins. Reducing these bonds is an ordinary procedure in biochemistry and biotechnology. The most commonly used r...
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Ronald Raines, John Lukesh | P140284US01
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Predicting Protein Hot Spot Residues
Most biological processes involve multiple proteins interacting with each other. While the principles governing protein-protein interactions are not fully understood, it is known that a small subset o...
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Julie Mitchell, Xiaolei Zhu, Steven Darnell | P140357US01
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New Protein Production Strategy for Plants
In animals, plants and other eukaryotic organisms, typically one protein is translated from each mRNA. Usually, translation can start only at one end of the mRNA strand. In contrast, several viruses ...
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Aurelie Rakotondrafara, Jincan Zhang | P140069US02
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Improved Ref Nuclease for Site-Specific DNA Cleavage
Restriction enzymes are commonly used to cleave double-stranded DNA. These enzymes bind to specific sequences of DNA (the ‘restriction site’) and cleave the DNA either at the recognition site or a...
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Michael Cox, Angela Gruber, Tayla Olsen | P130114US02
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Controlling the Formation of Stem Cell Colonies with Tailored SAM Array
The substrate on which cells are cultured is key to successful growth and tissue generation. For example, it has been shown that attachment to a substrate by human embryonic stem cells influences whet...
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William Murphy, Angela Xie | P150062US01
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Hydrogel Arrays for Screening Cell-Substrate Interactions, Now in Multiwell Format
While extensive research has been devoted to understanding the influence of medium conditions on cell development, researchers have only recently begun to understand the role of culture surface proper...
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William Murphy, Ngoc Nhi T. Le | P140305US01
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Invertebrate Models for Studying Traumatic Brain Injury
Every year about two million cases of traumatic brain injury (TBI) occur in the United States, caused by falls, car crashes, sports collisions and other injuries. TBI can lead to a host of health prob...
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David Wassarman, Barry Ganetzky | P130267US02
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New System for Producing Fungal Secondary Metabolites
Fungi produce a variety of chemical compounds called secondary metabolites that possess useful pharmaceutical properties. These compounds are invaluable platforms for developing front-line drugs. They...
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Nancy Keller, Philipp Wiemann | P150029US02
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Hydrogel Arrays for Screening Cell-Substrate Interactions
While extensive research has been devoted to understanding the influence of medium conditions on cell development, researchers have only recently begun to understand the role of culture surface proper...
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William Murphy, Stefan Zorn, Ngoc Nhi T. Le, Michael Schwartz, Eric Nguyen | P140097US01
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Protecting Groups for Boronic Acids
Boronic acids (i.e., compounds that have a single boron-carbon bond) are one of the most useful functional groups in organic chemistry and chemical biology. They have applications in polymer sciences,...
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Ronald Raines, Brett VanVeller, Matthew Aronoff | P130142US02
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Wisconsin Miniature SwineTM for Biomedical Research
Rodents and other small animals are extensively used as models to study human health and disease, but there are increasing concerns about their relevance. Research funding and regulatory agencies are ...
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Jess Reed, Christian Krueger, Dhanansayan Shanmuganayagam, Thomas Crenshaw, Jamie Reichert, Joan Parrish | P130271US01
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Wisconsin Miniature SwineTM for Cardiovascular Research
Rodents and other small animals are extensively used as models to study human health and disease, but there are increasing concerns about their relevance. Research funding and regulatory agencies are ...
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Jess Reed, Christian Krueger, Dhanansayan Shanmuganayagam, Thomas Crenshaw, Jamie Reichert, Joan Parrish | P140228US01
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Mouse Model for Mania
Presently, there are no good rodent models for mania, which is a critical component of bipolar disorder. The most commonly used approach is to inject normal mice with amphetamines to produce hyperacti...
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Stephen Gammie | P100188US01