Florida Company Using ORNL Technology For Revolutionary Wheelchair
...chairs may soon be removed because of an invention licensed to a new company in Florida by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Cybertrax Innovative Technologies of Tampa plans to introduceits revolutionary, omnidirectional wheelchair in the spring. These highlymaneuverable...New Sensor Provides First Instant Test For Toxic E. coli Organism
...can be used commercially. The technology must be licensed to a private company. And then, it must be refined and adapted for mass manufacture and sale. Stevens, who is also an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley, developed the sensors in concert with Berkeley postdo...New Nonviral Gene Therapy System Could Help Fight Cancer
...ertherapeutic effect." The T7 system has been licensed by Ohio University toProgenitor, Inc., a biotechnology company in Columbus, Ohio....Laser Microscope At Cornell Images Serotonin In Live Cells
... patent on the technology, which recently has been licensed to Bio-Rad Laboratories of California. Webb directs Cornell's Development Resource for Biophysical Imaging and Optoelectronics, funded by the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation. For 3-D image reconstruction, the researche...Supelco Licenses ORNL Solid Sorbent Air Sampling Material
...le to semi-volatile samples. The material,recently licensed by Supelco, a Pennsylvania-based supplier ofenvironmental products, is expected to be more productive and less costlythan air sampling traps on the market because of its chemical and thermalstability. While Supelco has not yet commercialized the sol-...Better Peroxidase Improves Disease Diagnosis
...e, the Indiana Crop Improvement Association (ICIA) licensed the use of soybean peroxidase in medical diagnostic test kits to Enzymol International Inc., Columbus, Ohio, and to American Qualex, San Clemente, Calif. In July, American Qualex will announce the use of soybean peroxidase-based compounds in new diag...First Salmonella Vaccine For Poultry To Be On The Market Soon
...tists at Megan Health Inc. in St. Louis, a company licensed by Washington University to develop and market vaccines based on technology developed by Curtiss. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is expected to license the vaccine by the end of 1997. Megan's vaccine will be the first salmonella vaccine ...Oral Vaccine Protects Infants From Severe Rotavirus Diarrhea
...rents, are included. The potential benefits of a licensed vaccine in developed countries such as theUnited S...ich has a similarsurface protein. The vaccine was licensed to Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories (St. Davids,Pa.), a division of American Home Products Corp., and is no......'sRoyalty Research Fund, which gets its money from licensed technology developedby UW researchers....Pitt Researchers Construct Novel Delivery System For Gene Therapy Of Liver Disorders
...ration, Seattle, and the RCR Vector is exclusively licensed to TargetedGenetics. In the study, Pitt researchers detailed how they coated twisted strandsof DNA encoding for the a1-antitrypsin (hAAT) gene with lipids and added oil toform stable RCR structures with 65 percent of DNA incorporated into the...Maillinckrodt Medical Licenses Invention For Concentration Of Rhenium Radioisotopes
...nn., Jan. 20, 1997 --Mallinckrodt Medical Inc. has licensed an invention from the Department of Energy's (DOE)...plished using the technology developed at ORNL and licensed to Mallinckrodt. A highly concentrated form of rhenium is needed for this type of procedure and is p...New Company To Turn UNC-CH, Army Inventions Into Improved Vaccines
...haVax, a new company in Durham. UNC-CH has licensed exclusively to AlphaVax four patents and twoapplications for patents expected to be issued. The company will develop andmarket the technology, which has broad applications for vaccines and genetherapy, company officials say. Initial targets include i...Transplanted Neurons Restore Function In Rats After Stroke
...y the University of Pennsylvania MedicalCenter and licensed to Layton BioScience Inc. of Atherton, California, whichprovided the cells used in the USF study. Layton BioScience is developing thecells, known commercially as hNT-Neurons, for the treatment of severalneurological disorders. In the experime...Nitrate Reductase: A Magical Enzyme?
...3 toproduce nitrate reductase using a process they licensed from Michigan Tech. Research and development of nitrate reductase-based products has been funded bySmall Business Innovation Research grants from the EPA , USDA and the MichiganDepartment of Commerce. Environmental testing for nitrate is oft...New Gene Therapy Technique Results In 60 Percent Tumor Regression Rate
...ing on the project with Progenitor Inc., which has licensed the T7gene expression system used in the studies. If further tests of the method proveas successful as these early studies, scientists could begin human trials in thenext year or two. For the study, scientists used a gene therapy protocol wi......ilts. The all-terrain wheelchair has not yet been licensed for commercial development....First Reproducible Cloning Of Mammals From Adult Cells Reported In Nature
...tes and multiple sclerosis. The technology hasbeen licensed to the biotechnology company ProBio America, Inc., forcommercializationand to test it for expanded uses. The investigators anticipate that due to similarities between developmentin mammals the technique will be applicable to larger animals. For exam...CU Team Develops New Techniques For Repair Of Bone And Cartilage
...patented by Anseth several years agothrough CU and licensed by a major Midwest biotechnology company, has shownpromise in animal studies, she said. The advantages to making polymers with UVlight are that they can be created at any temperature, the reactions occurquickly, the process can be easily turned on a......evelopment of the yeast. In 1993, Amoco Corp. licensed the yeast strain. SWAN Biomass Co., a subsidiary of Amoco, was established to develop the yeast for commercial applications. The company tested the yeast in a large-scale testing facility at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo...New Environmental Monitoring System To Reduce Costs And Improve Efficiency
...Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The sensor was licensed commercially by the Atlanta-based PhotonicSensor Systems Inc., a recent graduate of Georgia Tech's AdvancedTechnology Development Center, a business incubator for high-techcompanies. Photonic Sensor Systems is also a member of the Department ofDefens...