Patents Assigned to Chesapeake Perl, Inc.
  • Automated Packaging, Inoculation, and Harvesting of Lepidopterous Larvae for Protein Manufacturing
    Publication number: 20080295774
    Abstract: A method for mass rearing of insects. A web including a plurality of wells is provided. Insect eggs or larvae and growth medium are loaded in the wells. The wells are covered. The web is rolled up. The eggs or larvae are incubated during eggs hatch and larval growth. The web is unrolled and the larvae harvested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2006
    Publication date: December 4, 2008
    Applicant: Chesapeake Perl, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikolai A. Van Beek, David C. Davis, Thomas A. Curran, Wayne C. Taylor
  • Production of human glycosylated proteins in transgenic insects
    Publication number: 20070067855
    Abstract: This invention relates, e.g., to transgenic insects, or progeny thereof, whose cells contain at least one genomically integrated, expressible, nucleic acid encoding two or more of a set of Nglycosylation enzymes that can glycosylate a heterologous protein with a mammalianized (e.g., humanized) glycosylation pattern. The glycosylation genes are preferably expressed in the insect cells in catalytic amounts. Also described are methods to use such a transgenic insect to produce heterologous, mammalianized polypeptides of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Applicant: Chesapeake Perl, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Jarvis, Nikolai Beek, Malcolm Fraser