by | Mar 10, 2018 | Becker, Matthew, Fang, Huafeng, Pan, Dipanjan, Rossin, Raffaella, Sun, Xiankai, Taylor, John-Stephen, Turner, Jeffrey, Welch, Michael, Wooley, Karen
— This invention features cell permeable nano conjugates of shell-cross-linked knedel (SCK) and peptide nucleic acids (PNA) with mRNA targeting sequences for early diagnosis and therapy of cancers.
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Hallahan, Dennis
— Technology: GRP78 is a chaperone that is part of a complex that controls the maturation of glycoproteins in the ER and senses cellular stress in normal cells. However, following radiation treatment, GRP78 is also expressed on the surface of cancer cells and has anti-apoptotic and pro-angiogenesis ac…
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Rossin, Raffaella, Welch, Michael, Woodard, Pamela
— Background
Atherosclerosis is a disease process in which lipid deposition causes the formation of plaques that lead to thickening of the artery walls. The cause of a majority of fatal acute myocardial infarction and sudden coronary death is due to the rupture of soft or unstable plaques; however, t…
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Connolly, Janet, Fremont, Daved, Hansen, Ted, Lybarger, Lonnie, Miley, Michael, Mitaksov, Vesselin, Truscott, Steven
by | Mar 10, 2018 | Achilefu, Samuel, Black, Kvar
— This invention is the formulation of a SPECT nanoparticle probe for the detection of MMP activity. The surface of a 10 nm-sized gold nanoparticle is functionalized through a thiol anchor with a peptide that is cleaved in the presence of MMP9. The surface is also functionalized with methoxy polyethyl…