Abstract: An apparatus for magnetic flux density based DNA sequencing. The apparatus comprising a device for generating a static magnetic field; a nanopore device; a gel medium; and a magnetometer for measuring a change in magnetic flux density of the static magnetic field as a chain of nucleotides travels through the gel medium.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 30, 2019
Date of Patent:
June 1, 2021
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
Samuel Mathew Jawaharlal, Arunachalam Narayanan, Sathya Santhar, Balamurugaramanathan Sivaramalingam
Abstract: The invention relates to a new method of characterising a target RNA polynucleotide by taking one or more measurements as the target RNA polynucleotide moves with respect to a transmembrane pore. The movement is controlled by a DNA helicase. The invention also relates to a modified RNA construct wherein the RNA polynucleotide has been modified to increase DNA helicase binding thereto.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 19, 2019
Date of Patent:
June 1, 2021
Assignee:
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd.
Inventors:
Daniel Ryan Garalde, Andrew John Heron, Lakmal Jayasinghe, Daniel John Turner, James White
Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions comprising an antiarrhythmic agent for treatment of a heart condition via inhalation. Methods of treating a heart condition include administering by inhalation an effective amount of at least one antiarrhythmic pharmaceutical agent to a patient in need thereof. Nebulized drug product and kits are also disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 15, 2020
Date of Patent:
June 1, 2021
Assignee:
InCarda Therapeutics, Inc.
Inventors:
Michael Laird Hurrey, Luiz Belardinelli, Prashanti Madhavapeddi, Carlos Schuler
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of covalently attaching a chromosome within a cell to a matrix including modifying a plurality of nucleotides within the chromosome to include a matrix attachment moiety wherein the chromosome contacts the matrix, and attaching the matrix attachment moiety of the plurality of nucleotides to the matrix, thereby attaching the chromosome to the matrix.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 19, 2017
Date of Patent:
June 1, 2021
Assignee:
President and Fellows of Harvard College
Abstract: A composition for attracting bed bugs, the composition comprising the five compounds (E)-2-hexenal, (E)-2-hexenoic acid, (E)-2-octenal, 2-octenoic acid and 2-hexanone, a trap comprising these five compounds and methods of attracting and detecting bed bugsusing the five compounds, are disclosed.
Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions comprising an antiarrhythmic agent for treatment of a heart condition via inhalation. Methods of treating a heart condition include administering by inhalation an effective amount of at least one antiarrhythmic pharmaceutical agent to a patient in need thereof. Nebulized drug product and kits are also disclosed.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 15, 2020
Date of Patent:
May 18, 2021
Assignee:
InCarda Therapeutics, Inc.
Inventors:
Michael Laird Hurrey, Luiz Belardinelli, Prashanti Madhavapeddi, Carlos Schuler
Abstract: In the present invention there is provided a pharmaceutical composition for oral administration which comprises bendamustine or a pharmaceutically acceptable, ester, salt or solvate thereof as an active ingredient, and a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient and which shows a dissolution of the bendamustine of at least 60% in 20 minutes, 70% in 40 minutes and 80% in 60 minutes, as measured with a paddle apparatus at 50 rpm according to the European Pharmacopoeia in 500 ml of a dissolution medium at a pH of 1.5. The invention further relates to the above pharmaceutical composition for use for the oral treatment of a medical condition which is selected from chronic lymphocytic leukemia, acute lymphocytic leukaemia, chronic myelocytic leukaemia, acute myelocytic leukaemia, Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, multiple myeloma, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, small cell lung cancer and non-small cell lung cancer.
Abstract: A method for unlocking bioactive proteins that can then be used to activate natural remedies. The method includes starting with Silica salt and water mixture. Then a base of whey protein concentrate is added to the mixture. The pH of the whey protein mixture is raised using a base. The pH is held at a level above 11 for at least two hours. After at least two hours an acid is then added to the mixture to bring the pH of the mixture below 3 pH. This will stop the activation process. After the unattached proteins are removed the protein mixture is then brought back to a normal pH level, around 4 pH.
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for the detection and/or sorting of nucleic acids. Further disclosed are methods for device fabrication.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 19, 2018
Date of Patent:
April 13, 2021
Assignee:
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
Abstract: The present disclosure provides a ladybug attractant, the ladybug being a natural enemy of an aphid, the ladybug attractant including a ladybug sex pheromone, a synomone and a kairomone; wherein the synomone is an aphid-induced plant volatile; the kairomone is composed of an aphid alarm pheromone, an aphid body surface extract and an aphid honeydew volatile. The ladybug attractant shows good attracting effect, good repeatability, high stability, and a broad spectrum of beneficial ladybugs such as Coccinella septempunctata, Harmonia axyridis, and Propylaea japonica in laboratory and field experiments.
Abstract: A nanoscale protein-sensing platform with a non-equilibrium on-off switch that employs dielectrophoretic and hydrodynamic shear forces to overcome these thermodynamic limitations with irreversible kinetics. The detection sensitivity is achieved with complete association of the antibody-antigen-antibody (Ab-Ag-Ab) complex by precisely and rapidly assembling carbon nanotubes (CNT) across two parallel electrodes via sequential DC electrophoresis and dielectrophoresis (DEP), and with single-CNT electron tunneling conductance. The high selectivity is achieved with a critical hydrodynamic shear rate between the activated dissociation shear rates of target and non-target linkers of the aligned CNTs.
Abstract: Methods, compounds, and solutions for neurotransmitter restoration in a mammalian brain. The compound comprises calcium carbonate, pyridoxine hydrochloric acid, magnesium citrate, zinc amino acid chelate, chromium amino acid chelate, and a mixture comprising L-Tryptophan, L-Glutamine, L-Tyrosine, DL-Phenylalanine, and rhodiola. A visual indicator may be included to provide a easily discernable indication of the efficacy of a mixed solution.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a microfluidic device for extracting and isolating DNA from cells. The device includes a support having an inlet port for receiving a sample containing a cell, an outlet port for dispensing DNA isolated from the cell, and a microfluidic channel disposed within the support and extending from the inlet port to the outlet port. The microfluidic channel includes a micropillar array, an inflow channel disposed between the inlet port and the micropillar array, and an outflow channel disposed between the micropillar array and the outlet port. The micropillar array includes micropillars spatially configured to entrap, by size exclusion, the cell, to immobilize DNA released from the cell, and to maintain the immobilized DNA in elongated or non-elongated form when hydrodynamic force is applied to the microfluidic channel. Systems and methods of making and using the device are also provided herein.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 26, 2018
Date of Patent:
March 16, 2021
Assignee:
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Inventors:
Harold G. Craighead, Juraj Topolancik, Harvey Tian, Christopher Wallin
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vaginal system that prevents pregnancy comprised of segesterone acetate and ethinyl estradiol and is configured for thirteen 28-day product-use cycles.
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vaginal system that prevents pregnancy comprised of segesterone acetate and ethinyl estradiol and is configured for thirteen 28-day product-use cycles.
Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vaginal system that prevents pregnancy comprised of segesterone acetate and ethinyl estradiol and is configured for thirteen 28-day product-use cycles.
Abstract: A crosslinked self-assembled monolayer (SAM), comprising surface groups containing a nitrogen-heterocycle, was formed on an oxygen plasma-treated silicon oxide or hafnium oxide top surface of a substrate. The SAM is covalently bound to the underlying oxide layer. The SAM was patterned by direct write methods using ultraviolet (UV) light of wavelength 193 nm or an electron beam, forming a line-space pattern comprising non-exposed SAM features. The non-exposed SAM features non-covalently bound DNA-wrapped carbon nanotubes (DNA-CNT) deposited from aqueous solution with a selective placement efficiency of about 90%. Good alignment of carbon nanotubes to the long axis of the SAM features was also observed. The resulting patterned biopolymer features were used to prepare a CNT based field effect transistor.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 3, 2017
Date of Patent:
February 9, 2021
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation
Inventors:
Shu-Jen Han, Brian Lin, Hareem T. Maune, Charles T. Rettner, Linda K. Sundberg, Leslie E. Thompson, Hoa D. Truong
Abstract: Provided herein are pharmaceutically acceptable sodium nitrite and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Also provided herein are methods for determining the total non-volatile organic carbon in a sodium nitrite-containing sample. Further provided herein are methods for producing pharmaceutically acceptable sodium nitrite. Still further provided herein are methods of treatment comprising the administration of pharmaceutically acceptable sodium nitrite.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 8, 2020
Date of Patent:
January 26, 2021
Assignee:
Hope Medical Enterprises, Inc.
Inventors:
Craig Sherman, Anthony James Lepine, Catherine Marie Smith, Kevin Robert Wirtz, Erich Schulze
Abstract: Apparatus and methods relating to DNA sequencing are provided. In one embodiment, a DNA sequencing device includes a nanochannel having a width that is approximately 0.3 nm to approximately 20 nm. A pair of electrodes having portions exposed to the nanochannel may form a tunneling current electrode (TCE) with an electrode gap of approximately 0.1 nm to approximately 2 nm, and more particularly about 0.3 nm to about 1 nm. In one embodiment, at least one of the pair of electrodes is formed as a suspended electrode. An actuator may be associated with the suspended electrode to displace it relative to the other electrode. In various embodiments, the nanochannel and/or the electrodes may be formed using thermal reflow processes to reduce the size of such features.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 1, 2018
Date of Patent:
January 12, 2021
Assignee:
SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
Inventors:
Xiaomin Yang, ShuaiGang Xiao, David S. Kuo, Koichi Wago, Thomas Young Chang