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News Patent of the Week: A More Functional Freeze-Dried Formulation Lactic acid bacteria has uses in the food and feed industries, as well as in medicine and chemistry applications. The bacteria is used as a source of probiotics and as...
News Patent of the Week: Eliminating Trial and Error for a Better Biopsy University of Chicago Medicine doctor Seon-Kyu Lee has patented a novel surgical mallet design that enables biopsy needles to be positioned in place and imaged simultaneously. Surgical biopsy needles are...
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...
News Patent of the Week: A Low Dose, Multi-Drug Cocktail for Breast Cancer Treatment More than 150,000 breast cancer survivors were living with metastatic disease, three-fourths of whom were originally diagnosed with stage I-III, as of January 1, 2019, according to the American Cancer...
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News Patent of the Week: Treating, Preventing Bacterial Infections Every year, at least 2.8 million people in the US get an antibiotic-resistant infection – and more than 35,000 people die, according to the CDC. In this week’s featured patent,...
News Patent of the Week: Enhancing Vaccine Efficiency Researchers at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago developed a new platform technology for improving the efficiency of vaccines. Jeffrey Hubbell, Eugene Bell Professor in...
News Patent of the Week: Creating a Temperature-Stable Vaccine Platform Researchers have developed a novel vaccine platform with fewer side-effects and shelf-stability, which addresses the significant challenge of distributing vaccines to developing countries.
News Patent of the Week: Targeting the Treatment of Inflammatory Diseases A biologic drug delivery platform targets the treatment of inflammatory diseases by honing in on collagen exposed by inflammation. “Enhancing the therapeutic efficacy of drugs for inflammatory diseases is of...
News Patent of the Week: Increased Safety and Improved Protection of Vaccines Researchers, including Aaron Esser-Kahn, an associate professor at UChicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, have filed a patent application for a novel additive that limits undesirable vaccine-related side effects. Many...
News Patent of the Week: Improving the Performance of Antibody Fragments Antibody fragments, including Fabs, which bind to immune response-triggering substances, or antigens, have demonstrated utility in various research and diagnostic applications. However, their structure limits their use, so researchers have engineered...
