News Polsky Science and Technology Associates Helping Drive University Innovation Forward The new cohort of the Polsky Science and Technology Associates includes three University of Chicago graduate students who are working with the Polsky Center’s technology and business development teams to...
Technology Small Molecule Inhibitor Boosting The Efficacy Of Therapeutic Ionizing Radiation Radiotherapy and immunotherapy are used to treat many cancer types, yet only 50% and 20% of patients respond, respectively. Resistance to therapy presents a large problem. N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification is…
Technology A Versatile and High-throughput Assay for the Directed Evolution of Reverse Transcriptases to Profile Epigenetic Modifications With NGS Engineered reverse transcriptases (RTs) to profile epigenetic modifications have numerous advantages over traditional antibody enrichment methods including: single base pair resolution, lower sample quantities needed, and lower noise and background…
Technology Practical Architectures and Algorithms for Quantum Source Coding Data compression done by classical source coding is a crucial element of modern digital infrastructure as it enables the efficient storage and transmission of images, audio files, and videos. Protocols…
Technology Targeting TGFβ Signaling for Enhancing Cancer Radiotherapy and Immunotherapy Efficacy The method leverages a negative regulator to inhibit TGFβ signaling in myeloid cells, potentially enhancing the efficacy of radiotherapy and immunotherapy in cancer treatment by reducing immune suppression. The problem:…
