by | Dec 17, 2019 | Yang, Deshan
— Technology Description
Prof. Deshan Yang and colleagues have developed automated systems and software toolkits to provide more accurate deformable image registration (DIR) for adaptive radiotherapy and other clinical applications. In particular, they have automated tedious and labor-intensive DIR …
by | Dec 16, 2019 | Wang, Xiaowei
— Technology Description
In search of more effective cancer treatments, inventors in Dr. Xiaowei Wang’s lab at Washington University School of Medicine have developed artificial interference RNA (aiRNA). aiRNA is a patented chimeric RNAi that combines the multi-target abilities of miRNAs and t…
by | Dec 12, 2019 | Hansen, Ted, Lybarger, Lonnie, Wang, Xiaoli
— Target: Amino acids 11-34 of mouse tapasin.
Application(s): Western Blotting
Armenian hamster mAb (5D3) was produced to peptide EDAGGGGLSKKPATLLLRH GPRGP, representing residues 11–34 on mouse Tapasin (TPN) (44). TPN mAb was found to be specific for mouse TPN, as determined in a Western blot analysis of cell lysates of .221 (human TPN-positive) cells, .220 (human TPN-n…
by | Dec 5, 2019 | Pachynski, Russell
— Disease indication – cancer, particularly lung, breast, colon, and prostate cancer or melanoma (cancers where chemerin is down-regulated at the tumor site)
Drug format – engineered fusion protein
Drug class – first in class
Research stage and Preliminary data
Target &ndash…
by | Dec 1, 2019 | Covey, Douglas, Izumi, Yukitoshi, Zorumski, Charles
— Technology Description
Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis and colleagues have identified ent-allopregnanolone (ent-AlloP) as a potential therapeutic to treat glaucoma. Glaucoma, the leading cause of irreversible blindness, results from damage to the retinal ganglion cells (RGSs) t…