Patents Assigned to University of Durham
  • Publication number: 20140179015
    Abstract: The invention provides a compound of formula (I): (wherein: R1 is an optionally substituted 2-(1-azathiaxanthone); each —R2 is independently of the formula —CH2—C(?O)—R4, wherein R4 is an amino acid or a salt thereof, attached to the remainder of R2 through the nitrogen atom of the amino group; and R3 is hydrogen or a C1-6 alkyl group); or (wherein: R1 is an optionally substituted 2-(1-azaxanthone); each R2 is independently an optionally substituted glutaric or succinic acid, or a salt or ester thereof; and R3 is hydrogen or a C1-6 alkyl group).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: University of Durham
    Inventors: David PARKER, Robert Pal
  • Publication number: 20140154326
    Abstract: The invention provides a micro-organ composite which comprises a core group of cells and an outer layer of cells, wherein the cells of the core group are mesenchymal cells and the cells of the outer layer are epithelial cells or wherein the cells of the core group are epithelial cells and the cells of the outer layer are mesenchymal cells, and wherein the core group of cells is at least partially encapsulated by the outer layer of cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: University of Durham
    Inventors: Aihua Guo, Colin Albert Buchanan Jahoda
  • Patent number: 8628978
    Abstract: A compound of formula (I) is provided: wherein: R1 is an optionally substituted 2-(1-azathiaxanthone); each —R2 is independently of the formula —CH2—C(?O)—R4, wherein R4 is an amino acid or a salt thereof, attached to the remainder of R2 through the nitrogen atom of the amino group; and R3 is hydrogen or a C1-6 alkyl group; or wherein: R1 is an optionally substituted 2-(1-azaxanthone); each R2 is independently an optionally substituted glutaric or succinic acid, or a salt or ester thereof; and R3 is hydrogen or a C1-6 alkyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2014
    Assignee: University of Durham
    Inventors: David Parker, Robert Pal
  • Patent number: 8501398
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of determining the amount of an analyte having an oxidation potential, for a one electron oxidation process, of about +0.10 to about +1.20 volts at pH 7, relative to the normal hydrogen electrode at 298K, said method comprising measuring the emission intensity or emission lifetime, at two or more wavelengths, from a sample comprising said analyte and two or more different macrocyclic lanthanide (III) complexes, wherein each of said macrocyclic lanthanide (III) complexes comprises a different lanthanide ion but the same macrocyclic ligand, and using a ratio of emission intensities or emission lifetimes measured at two different wavelengths to calculate the amount of analyte in said sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: University of Durham
    Inventors: David Parker, Robert Anthony Poole, Filip Kielar
  • Patent number: 8386844
    Abstract: An array of logic devices capable of self-determining the program, inputs and outputs from configuration information provided by its nearest neighbors. The rules used by each device to self-determine its behavior are identical to those of every other device in the array. This facilitates the development of robust array configurations and robust behavior of the device as a whole. This system's logic devices utilize three shift-registers, two are programmed before operation, the third is programmed on-the-fly by the other two. This facilitates a fast response to changes in the performance of the array in the event of partial dynamic or static failures of the array. An iterative design algorithm for the array ensures optimum use of the resources of the array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: University of Durham
    Inventors: David Huw Jones, Alan Purvis, Richard Peter McWilliam
  • Publication number: 20130039856
    Abstract: The present invention concerns medicaments for slowing ageing. The medicaments can include an inhibitor of microbial folate biosynthesis as well as agents capable of reducing folate uptake by an animal. Examples of such medicaments include inhibitors that reduce the activity of an enzyme in the folate biosynthesis pathway, such as sulfonamides including sulfamethoxazole. The invention also concerns a food supplement, additive, functional food, or nutraceutial comprising the inhibitor or agent or composition as discussed above, as well as methods for screening for an agent for use as a medicament for slowing ageing comprising determining whether a test agent inhibits microbial folate biosynthesis, or whether the test agent reduces folate uptake by a non-human animal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Applicant: University of Durham
    Inventor: David Weinkove
  • Publication number: 20120193574
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of crystallising a compound comprising either: (i) providing a first confined solution comprising the compound; and adding more of the compound to and/or increasing the degree of saturation of the first confined solution, whereby to provide a resultant second confined solution that comprises more compound and/or that has a greater degree of supersaturation relative to a confined supersaturated solution of the same compound stabilised solely by being confined; or (ii) providing a first confined melt comprising the compound; and cooling and/or increasing the pressure of the first confined melt, whereby to provide a resultant second confined melt that is cooler and/or is more pressurised relative to a confined super-cooled melt of the same compound stabilised solely by being confined, whereby to effect the crystallising under confinement and under thermodynamic control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: University of Durham
    Inventors: Sharon Jane Cooper, Catherine Emma Nicholson
  • Patent number: 8193174
    Abstract: The invention provides a compound comprising a xanthone or thiaxanthone sensitizing moiety, capable of coordinating to a lanthanide ion by the nitrogen atom of an integral pyridyl group or a related group able to bind a lanthanide ion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: University of Durham
    Inventors: Parker David, Robert Pal, Junhua Yu
  • Patent number: 8163526
    Abstract: A method for increasing production of ethanol in an ethanologenic cell using an autoinducer molecule, for example, AI-2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: The University of Durham
    Inventors: Adrian Robert Walmsley, Maria Ines Borges-Walmsley, Jung Woo Yang
  • Patent number: 7983477
    Abstract: A method of generating a stereoscopic image is disclosed. The method includes defining at least two, three or more regions in a scene representing a region of interest, a near regions and/or a far region. This is followed by forming an image pair for each region, this image pair containing the information relating to objects in or partially in their respective region. The perceived depth within the regions is altered to provide the idea or best perceived depth within the region of interest and acceptable or more compressed perceived depths in the other regions. The image pairs are then mapped together to form a display image pair for viewing on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: The University of Durham
    Inventor: Nicolas Steven Holliman
  • Patent number: 7978386
    Abstract: A method of generating a holographic diffraction pattern and a holographic lithography system. The method involves defining at least one geometrical shape; generating at least one line segment to represent the at least one geometrical shape; calculating a line diffraction pattern on a hologram plane, including calculating the Fresnel diffraction equation for an impulse representing the at least one line segment with a line width control term and a line length control term; and adding vectorially, where there are two or more line segments, the line diffraction patterns to form the holographic diffraction pattern. The method and system enables holographic masks to be generated without creating a physical object to record. The required shapes or patterns are defined in terms of a three-dimensional coordinate space and a holographic pattern is generated at a defined distance from the shapes in the coordinate space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: University of Durham
    Inventors: Alan Purvis, Richard McWilliam, Nicholas Luke Seed, Gavin Lewis Williams, Peter Anthony Ivey, Andrew Maiden, Simon Johnson
  • Publication number: 20110053236
    Abstract: A method for increasing production of ethanol in an ethanologenic cell using an autoinducer molecule, for example AI-2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2007
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: University of Durham
    Inventors: Adrian Robert Walmsley, Maria Ines Borges-Walmsley, Jung Woo Yang
  • Publication number: 20100292179
    Abstract: We describe the functional cloning and the use of a non-fungal inositol phosphoryceraminde synthase (IPC synthase) in a screening assay for the identification of agents that target and antagonize the activity of IPC synthase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2007
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: The University of Durham
    Inventors: Paul William Denny, Ralph Thomas Schwarz, Hosam Shams-Eldin
  • Publication number: 20100184601
    Abstract: Methods for overcoming multiple herbicide resistance (MHR) in plants using inhibitors of GST suppression of Formula (I), novel chemical inhibitors of Formula (Ia), compositions comprising compounds of Formula (I), and uses and methods relating thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Publication date: July 22, 2010
    Applicant: University of Durham
    Inventor: Ian Cummins
  • Publication number: 20100116690
    Abstract: Various methods, compounds and apparatus for the detection of analytes are provided. In one aspect, the direct oxidation of an alcohol is detected electrochemically. In another aspect, a reaction of an analyte is detected, wherein the reaction is catalysed by an enzyme and a cofactor, and wherein the cofactor comprises a moiety which is capable of acting as an electron mediator. In a further aspect, a chiral analyte is detected by resolving a enantiomeric mixture of the analyte and subsequently detecting at least one of the resolved enantiomers electrochemically. The invention is particularly relevant to the detection of alcohols, especially chiral alcohols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: University of Durham
    Inventors: Ritu Kataky, David Parker
  • Publication number: 20090288227
    Abstract: The present invention provides an isolated fragment of the LEC1 promoter comprising a deletion, relative to the wild type LEC1 promoter, which isolated fragment possesses promoter activity in non-embryonic vegetative plant tissues in Arabidopsis, wherein the isolated fragment comprises at least 500 bases of the sequence shown in FIG. 1, or a functional equivalent thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Publication date: November 19, 2009
    Applicant: University of Durham
    Inventors: Keith Lindsey, Stuart Casson
  • Patent number: 7557824
    Abstract: A method of generating a stereoscopic image is disclosed. The method includes defining at least two, three or more regions in a scene representing a region of interest, a near regions and/or a far region. This is followed by forming an image pair for each region, this image pair containing the information relating to objects in or partially in their respective region. The perceived depth within the regions is altered to provide the ideai or best perceived depth within the region of interest and acceptable or more compressed perceived depths in the other regions. The image pairs are then mapped together to form a display image pair for viewing on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: University of Durham
    Inventor: Nicolas S. Holliman
  • Patent number: 7541008
    Abstract: A reactor for carrying out a reaction between at least two fluids comprises a reactor plate (20) with a plurality of grooves or through slots (22) in which the fluids mix and react and a separable overlying reservoir plate (2) for supplying the fluids to slots (22) from reservoirs (4, 6) via slots (10) a, (10) b, with a collecting conduit or reservoir (8) and slots (10) c for the product of the reaction. Reservoir plate (2) may lie between two reactor plates, or a single reactor plate (20) may lie between two reservoir plates. Third or further reservoirs may or may not be spaced from the second reservoir (6) depending on whether more than two fluids need to be present simultaneously, or whether a second reaction is required after the first two fluids have had time to react. Means may be provided for controlling the pressure in slots (22), the pressure differential (and flow rate) along slot (22), and/or the temperature in the reservoirs (4, 6) or slots (22).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2009
    Assignee: University of Durham of University Office
    Inventors: Richard Dickinson Chambers, Darren Holling, Graham Sandford
  • Patent number: 7196057
    Abstract: A fusion protein comprising a translocating moiety and a toxic moiety wherein the translocating moiety comprises a plant protein that is capable of acting as a carrier to translocate the toxic moiety across the gut wall of at least one plant pathogen, wherein the toxic moiety is adapted to be effective as a toxic agent following translocation; composition comprising the protein, methods for preparation thereof; polynucleotide encoding the fusion protein, vector comprising the polynucleotide, host cell and transgenic plant cell or plant that is resistant to pathogen, expressing the fusion protein, and uses thereof in combatting plant pathogens and in insect control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2007
    Assignees: University of Durham, Department for Enviroment, Food And Rural Affairs
    Inventors: John Arthur Gatehouse, Elaine Charlotte Fitches, John Patrick Edwards
  • Publication number: 20060051561
    Abstract: The invention relates to the application of a coating to a substrate in which the coating includes a polymer material and the coating is selectively fluorinated and/or cured to improve the liquid repellance of the same. The invention also provides for the selective fluorination and/or curing of selected areas of the coating thus, when completed, providing a coating which has regions of improved liquid repellance with respect to the remaining regions and which remaining regions may be utilized as liquid collection areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2003
    Publication date: March 9, 2006
    Applicant: University of Durham
    Inventor: Jas Pal Badyal