Wolfgang Glasser receives ACS award for wood chemistry, bio-based composites research
...of 20 to 30 pounds per car. Glasser has numerous patents in the field of biobased composites. Early patents dealt with lignin use in structural materials such as insulation foams, adhesives, resins, and compo...Patent rights stimulate R&D, but fall short in helping poor countries obtain lifesaving drugs
...o patent protection, and activists, who argue that patents unfairly drive up prices of pharmaceutical products," said Carol Medlin, PhD, project director at the UCSF Institute for Global Health. "Forum participants were trying to shoot down the middle - to figure out how to provide drugs cheaply without crea...New sensor upgrades artificial bomb sniffers
...recognition problems, says Walt, who holds several patents on the new sensor technology. His and other sensors in development tend to degrade over time, Walt says, just as the human nose looses its ability to sense and remember certain odors as people age. So the sensors need to be retrained or resensitize...Brookhaven lab scientist wins Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry
...ers in peer-reviewed journals, and she holds eight patents for radiolabeling procedures....Discoverer of life-saving Nomex fire-resistant material earns Lavoisier Achievement award
...s named as the inventor and co-inventor on 23 U.S. patents including his discoveries leading to life-saving ...tension. The discovery of Cozaar and the resulting patents created a new class of hypertensive drugs, a vastly-improved mode of drug therapy for treatment of h...Stroke patients with high blood sugar at higher risk of death
...five-year period. Over 40 percent of these stroke patents had high blood sugar levels. Although most had previous diagnoses of diabetes, they did not have their blood sugar levels under control. Dr. Williams and her colleagues found that having high blood sugar when the stroke occurred put patients at risk...The Lancet neurology press release
... 000 DNA sequences. The companies applying for the patents hope that their sequences will turn out to have so...ready, companies and research institutes with gene patents have bought exclusive rights to diagnostic tests for neurological disorders and are asking other lab...Marijuana-derived compound targets pain, inflammation
...the drug itself under the name CT-3. Burstein owns patents on ajulemic acid....Re-emerging field contributes to 10,000 patents yearly
LINTHICUM, MD, September 9, 2002 - An analysis of patents issued by the U.S. Patent Office over a six-year period shows that an average of 10,000 patents a year incorporate operations research techniques like optimization and simulation, according to an ...New compound holds promise for lupus and related diseases
...The University of Michigan has applied for several patents on the medical and pharmacological properties of the compound and its molecular target....First quarter prescription drug spending: Generic drugs slow upward trend
...om 43% a year earlier. During the next five years, patents will expire on brand-name drugs representing $32.3 billion in U.S. sales last year. For example, this year, the ACE inhibitor Monopril and the cancer drug Nolvadex are among the brand-name drugs scheduled for patent expiration. The 2004 patent exp...Texas A&M, ECOR sign deal to produce health-related proteins
...es exclusive rights to commercialize the Texas A&M patents in the field of bio-processing. ECOR's subsidiary, proCANE LLC, will produce the sugarcane-derived, high-value proteins. Recombinant proteins are produced by splicing a gene, or a combination of genes, into an organism to induce that organism to pro...New study to explore possible link between air pollution and brain cancer
...peutic drugs directly into tumors. He was awarded patents for his method for selective opening of abnormal brain tissue capillaries. At age 17 he published his first scientific paper, which earned the Westinghouse Science Award. Since then, he has published more than 150 scientific papers and has presente...Making tiny plastic particles to deliver lifesaving medicine
...r this invention; Hanes currently holds eight U.S. patents for advanced drug delivery applications. At Johns Hopkins, he is building upon this research by synthesizing improved inhalation particles, each about a tenth of the diameter of a human hair. He soon hopes to begin testing their safety and effectiven...Possible brain cancer-air pollution link to be studied
...emotherapeutic drugs directly into tumors, holding patents for his method for selective opening of abnormal brain tissue capillaries. The blood-brain barrier refers to the boundary between blood vessels and brain tissue. AQMD is the air pollution control agency for Orange County and major portions of Los An...Hopkins' Peter Agre receives 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry
...my of Arts and Sciences in 2003. He holds two U.S. patents on the isolation, cloning and expression of aquaporins 1 and 5 and is the principal investigator on four current National Institutes of Health grants. It has been 25 years since a current Hopkins faculty member was awarded a Nobel Prize. In 1978, sci...Handbook aims to help developing countries health research grow into industries
...ne or treatment. Before that can happen, there are patents and licenses and agreements the business of medicine that have to be worked through. New medical research is currently being actively pursued in public institutions in developing countries, but researchers and research center manager in those inst...Fosrenol shows significant reduction in serum phosphate in Chinese end-stage kidney disease patients
...anufacture, use and sell lanthanum carbonate under patents owned by AnorMED Inc. Lanthanum carbonate works by binding to dietary phosphate in the stomach. Once bound, the lanthanum carbonate/phosphate complex cannot pass through the stomach lining into the blood stream and is eliminated from the body. Conse...Study suggests that inflammation may play a role in developing high blood pressure
...Ridker, M.D., M.P.H., is named as a co-inventor on patents filed by the Brigham and Women's Hospital that relate to the use of inflammatory biomarkers in cardiovascular disease and is a Donald W. Reynolds Investigator and receives additional support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Leducq Fo......st particle concentrators. He currently holds nine patents on concentrators that can separate the tiniest particles of pollution from the majority of the surrounding gases so that the particles may be studied. These monitors are able to identify pollutants in discrete size groups: ultrafine particles of les...