Patents Assigned to Natural Environment Research Council
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Patent number: 9792691Abstract: A method of mapping an inter-tidal area, comprising: obtaining, over a period of time, image data comprising: a sequence of images of the inter-tidal area at a range of different stages of the tide, and the time at which each image was obtained; determining an elevation of a location in the image, by correlating the changes in an image value over time at the location with tidal data comprising the elevation of the tide over the period of time.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: Natural Environment Research CouncilInventor: Paul Bell
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Publication number: 20160003038Abstract: An inner barrel for a core barrel or a core barrel assembly, the inner barrel having one or more side walls bounding at least partially an elongate internal volume for receiving, in use, a collected core sample, wherein the or each side wall is adapted to provide at least one fluid flow path from the elongate internal volume to outside the inner barrel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2014Publication date: January 7, 2016Applicant: NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCILInventors: David Smith, Michael Wilson, Lee Baines, Rob Ling
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Patent number: 9079670Abstract: Aerosol detection apparatus comprises an aircraft having a dielectric member, such as a window (10), comprised in the body (12) thereof such that a surface of the dielectric member forms part of the exterior surface of the aircraft. Detection means (16), such as a static monitor is located on the inside of the aircraft and arranged to detect an electric field resulting from polarization of the dielectric member. The output of the static monitor, or the rate of change thereof, correlates closely to particle density as the aircraft is flown though an aerosol, such as a volcanic ash cloud. The apparatus is simple and relatively inexpensive, and may comprise any general purpose aircraft. Aerosol particles may be detected and mapped using apparatus of the invention more easily and quickly than by use of devices such as optical spectrometers mounted on dedicated research aircraft, or static monitors mounted on the exterior of an aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2011Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignees: UNIVERSITY OF LEADS, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR BUSINESS, INNOVATION AND SKILLS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND, NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCILInventors: Alan Michael Woolley, Stephen David Mobbs, James Matthew Haywood
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Publication number: 20130156778Abstract: The present invention provides a dendritic cell modulatory protein which modulates, and preferably inhibits, the differentiation and/or maturation of mammalian dendritic cells. The invention also provides proteins comprising conserved motifs found in such proteins as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising the dendritic cell modulatory protein and homologues and active fragments thereof, antibodies thereto and methods of treatment which utilise such proteins, homologues, fragments and antibodies.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2011Publication date: June 20, 2013Applicant: NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCILInventors: Jonathan M. Austyn, Guido Paesen, Stephen Preston, Patricia Nuttal
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Patent number: 8343504Abstract: The present invention relates generally to methods and materials for treating conditions associated with IgE activation in humans and animals, and to agents capable of modulating the activation. The agents of the invention comprise or are related to IGBPMA polypeptides from ticks.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2006Date of Patent: January 1, 2013Assignee: Natural Environment Research CouncilInventors: Hui Wang, Patricia Anne Nuttall
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Patent number: 8252278Abstract: Described herein are baculovirus vectors, host cells containing the baculovirus vectors, methods of using the baculovirus vectors for cloning genes, and kits containing the baculovirus vectors.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignees: Oxford Brookes University, Natural Environment Research CouncilInventors: Robert David Possee, Linda Anne King
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Publication number: 20120135931Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of modifying serine protease inhibitors in order to acquire or enhance any one of a variety of desired properties, including extent of inhibition, maintenance of inhibition following cleavage of the serine protease inhibitor by the target serine protease, speed of binding to the serine protease, neutralisation, and binding affinity. The present invention also relates to the products of such modifications and the uses of such products, in particular, their use in therapy.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2010Publication date: May 31, 2012Applicant: NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCILInventors: R. Manjunatha Kini, Cho Yeow Koh, Kunchithapadam Swaminathan, Kumar Sundramurthy
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Publication number: 20120070460Abstract: The present invention provides a dendritic cell modulatory molecule which modulates, and preferable inhibits, the differentiation and maturation of mammalian dendritic cells. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the dendritic cell modulatory molecule and homologues and active fragments thereof, antibodies thereto and methods of treatment and screening methods which utilise such molecules.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2009Publication date: March 22, 2012Applicant: Natural Environment Research CouncilInventors: Jon Austyn, Stephen Preston, Patricia Nuttall, Guido Paesen
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Publication number: 20100227380Abstract: The chemical oxygen demand of unprocessed, spent metal working fluids, can be reduced to levels of 2000 mg l?1 by using a consortium of micro-organisms capable of growth in untreated semi-synthetic metal working fluids, wherein the consortium has at least four members which are selected from at least one each of Agrobacterium spp., Comamonas spp., Methylobacterium spp., and Microbacterium spp.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2009Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: Natural Environment Research CouncilInventors: Christopher John van der Gast, Ian P. Thompson
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Publication number: 20100029509Abstract: The present invention relates to novel methods for producing a biosensor for detecting a specific compound, for identifying a gene encoding a regulatory protein responsive to a specific compound and for identifying a gene encoding a regulatory protein responsive to a specific compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2007Publication date: February 4, 2010Applicant: NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCILInventors: Wei Huang, Andrew Whiteley
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Patent number: 7492168Abstract: Disclosed is a measurement system for measuring subsurface resistivity. The surfaces of interest are, for example, engineered surfaces such as roads and dams, and non-engineered surfaces such as greenfield sites. The measurement system may also be used on biological materials. The system includes signal input electrodes for inputting an input signal into subsurface material by capacitive coupling. Pairs of signal detection electrodes allow capacitive coupling detection of a detectable signal caused by the input signal in at least some of the subsurface material. A phase-sensitive meter such as a lock-in amplifier is provided to measure the amplitude and phase of the detectable signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2004Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: Natural Environment Research CouncilInventors: Richard D. Ogilvy, Philip I. Meldrum, Oliver Kuras, David Beamish
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Patent number: 7413732Abstract: The application relates for method for cloning the gene comprising the steps of: 1. Providing a replication-deficient baculovirus vector, 2. Providing a rescue vector comprising (a) nucleic acid sequence which is capable of restoring replication in the replication-deficient baculovirus vector and (b) at least one gene to be cloned; 3. Causing the replication-deficient baculovirus vector and rescue vector to recombine to produce a replication-enabled baculovirus vector comprising the at least one gene to be cloned; and 4. Growing the replication-enabled baculovirus vector within a suitable invertebrate cell, such as an insect cell. Preferably the baculovirus vector is based upon AcMNPV. Also disclosed are replication-deficient baculovirus vectors, rescue vectors, cells containing such vectors and kits comprising such vectors.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2000Date of Patent: August 19, 2008Assignees: Oxford Brookes University, Natural Environment Research CouncilInventors: Robert David Possee, Linda Anne King
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Publication number: 20060055418Abstract: Disclosed is a measurement system for measuring subsurface resistivity. The surfaces of interest are, for example, engineered surfaces such as roads and dams, and non-engineered surfaces such as greenfield sites. The measurement system may also be used on biological materials. The system includes signal input electrodes for inputting an input signal into subsurface material by capacitive coupling. Pairs of signal detection electrodes allow capacitive coupling detection of a detectable signal caused by the input signal in at least some of the subsurface material. A phase-sensitive meter such as a lock-in amplifier is provided to measure the amplitude and phase of the detectable signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2004Publication date: March 16, 2006Applicant: Natural Environment Research CouncilInventors: Richard Ogilvy, Philip Meldrum, Oliver Kuras, David Beamish
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Patent number: 5876962Abstract: Expression vectors for the expression of proteins, particularly eukaryotic proteins are provided which are based on novel plasmid replicons. Sequence cassettes useful in constructing such vectors are also disclosed. The expression vectors according to the invention are useful for expressing selected proteins in insects and insect cells.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1995Date of Patent: March 2, 1999Assignee: Natural Environment Research CouncilInventors: David H.L. Bishop, Vincent Clive Emery
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Patent number: 5770192Abstract: A recombinant baculovirus which, in insect cells infected therewith, expresses a foreign protein comprising an insecticidal toxin, or a functional derivative thereof, provided with a signal peptide such that the toxin or derivative thereof is secreted from the insect cells. This recombinant baculovirus can be used in insect control.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 1995Date of Patent: June 23, 1998Assignees: Roussel-Uclaf, Natural Environment Research CouncilInventors: Patricia Jane Cayley, Lorna Mary Dyet Stewart, Robert David Possee, Miguel Lopez Ferber
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Patent number: 5690938Abstract: Method of inducing a mucosal and or/systemic immune response in a host, comprising the step of administering to the host an effective amount of a Bluetongue antigen in the form of virus like and/or virus core like particles. Vaccines are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1993Date of Patent: November 25, 1997Assignees: Oravax, Inc., Natural Environment Research CouncilInventors: Thomas H. Ermak, Jacques Pappo, Farshad Guirakhoo, Richard D. Nichols, Jr., Thomas P. Monath, Polly Roy