News Patent of the Week: Boosting the Microbiome to Prevent Infection Many antibiotic-resistant infections in humans can be traced to food and animals due to the widespread use of antibiotics on farms. Because of this, there is an urgent need to...
Technology Adaptive Microbial Platform For Gut Health, Biofuel, And Soil Productivity A novel biomaterial platform designed to enhance microbial modulation, featuring tunable chemical, mechanical, and optical responsiveness for applications in health, agriculture, and industry. The Unmet Need: Current clinically deployable materials…
News Talis Biomedical Developing ‘SlipChip’ Microfluidic POC Platform for Genotypic, Phenotypic Testing
News A Gut Check for Post-Op Infection: Covira Offers a Pro-Bacteria Approach Covira is a Chicago-based startup backed by three decades of field-defining research by John Alverdy, Sara and Harold Lincoln Thompson Professor of Surgery at the University of Chicago. Alverdy, who is Covira’s...
Technology Microbiome-Based Therapeutic For Enhancing Anti-Tumor Immunity In Cancer Treatment Innovative therapeutic strategy leveraging commensal microbiota, specifically by oral administration of Bifidobacterium, to enhance anti-tumor immunity, potentially improving cancer treatment when combined with checkpoint inhibitors Unmet Need: Only 20-40%…
Technology Potentiating the Microbiome for the Prevention of Enteric Bacterial Infection in Livestock Approximately 1/5 of antibiotic resistant infections in humans can be traced back to food and animals. The incidence of these infections is perpetuated by the widespread prophylactic use of antibiotics…
Technology Low-Input Methylation Sequencing For Profiling Epitranscriptomic Signatures And Early Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis A method that analyzes cfRNA methylation in plasma to distinguish human RNA from microbiome RNA, accurately detecting colorectal cancer through specific methylation markers even in ultralow input samples. The Unmet…
News Life Sciences Community Convenes at Chicago BioCapital Summit in a Showcase of Local Innovation Hosted by the Chicago Biomedical Consortium (CBC), the inaugural Chicago BioCapital Summit this week brought together industry, academia, and investors in a showcase of the latest innovations in the life...
News Patent of the Week: A Universal Microfluidic Culture System Microfluidic chips are useful in several applications, such as drug discovery, because of their ability to automatically replicate various cellular environments. As opposed to traditional dish-and-pipette techniques – which can...
Technology Genetic Engineering Tools To Stimulate And Enhance The Production Of Select Compounds From Bacterial Species Synthetic biology toolsets to genetically manipulate the microbiota, specifically non-model resident gut microbes, to alter gene expression and cellular function to produce therapeutic compounds. Unmet Need: Genetic engineering tools for…
Technology Novel Metabolite-Based Diagnostic Technology for Accurate Cavernous Angioma Identification and Risk Assessment Newly identified plasma metabolites linked to cavernous angioma, a neurovascular disease, using machine learning and multi-omics data to improve diagnostic precision and offer new insights for developing specific biomarkers The…
