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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160001115 | CARBOSILANE CONTAINING FIRE-EXTINGUISHING FOAM - The invention relates to fire-extinguishing foams or concentrates, which include a carbohydrate containing silane surfactant. | 01-07-2016 |
20150111213 | RAD51C AS A HUMAN CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY GENE - The invention discloses in vitro methods and a system for determining a predisposition of a subject for developing a cancer on the basis of analyzing a sample of the subject for an alteration of at least one allele of the RAD51C gene. Further disclosed are in vitro methods for assessing clinical features or a pathological progression of a cancer and for assessing at least one RAD51 C gene alteration in a cell. In addition a kit for determining a predisposition of a subject for developing a cancer, and certain uses of oligonucleotides for determining the presence of at least one mono-allelic germ-line mutation of the RAD51C gene. | 04-23-2015 |
20150018269 | STRUCTURAL MIMETICS OF PROLINE-RICH PEPTIDES AND USE THEREOF - The invention relates to compounds that can be used, in particular, as structural mimetics of proline-rich peptides and are correspondingly able to bond with proline-rich-motif binding domains (PRM domains) of proteins. The invention further relates to the use of these compounds as pharmaceutically active agents, as well as the use of the pharmaceutically active agents for the treatment of bacterial, neurodegenerative and tumor diseases. | 01-15-2015 |
20140306141 | SILOXANE-CONTAINING FIRE EXTINGUISHING FOAM - The invention relates to fire extinguishing foams or concentrates thereof, these comprising a carbohydrate-containing siloxane surfactant. | 10-16-2014 |
20130260133 | GENERATION OF NANODISPERSE INCLUSIONS IN A HIGH-VISCOSITY MATRIX - The invention relates to a process for generating a porous material having homogeneous, gas-containing inclusions in the micrometer and sub-micrometer range, and also to the material produced by such process. | 10-03-2013 |
20120172402 | INDUCTION OF ALPHA HELIX CONFORMATIONS IN PROTEINS AND PEPTIDES - Substituted tricyclic diproline analogues of the formula (I): | 07-05-2012 |
20110097334 | Novel Marker Genes for Regulatory T Cells from Human Blood - The present invention provides novel marker genes for the specific identification and characterization of human suppressive and/or regulatory T cells including natural, adaptive, and expanded CD4 | 04-28-2011 |
20110023181 | Means for Improving Agrobiological Traits in a Plant by Providiing a Plant Cell Comprising in its Chloroplasts Enzymatic Activities for Converting Glycolate Into Malate - The present invention is concerned with the improvement of aghcobiological traits in plants. More specifically, it relates to a plant cell comprising in its chloroplasts enzymatic activities for converting glycolate into malate. Preferably, said plant cell comprises a first polypeptide having glycolat oxidase activity, a second polypeptide having malate synthase activity and a third polypeptide having catalase activity or a first polypeptide having glycolat dehydrogenase activity and a second polypeptide having malate synthase activity. Also encompassed is a plant comprising said plant cells as well as seeds obtainable from the said plants. The present invention, furthermore, relates to a method for producing a transgenic plant or a plant cell having an increased water use efficiency or increased yield. The present invention contemplates polynucleotides comprising a combination of nucleic acids encoding the aforementioned polypeptides as well as vectors comprising the polynucleotides and uses thereof. | 01-27-2011 |
20090214431 | IDENTIFICATION OF ERGOTHIONEINE TRANSPORTER AND THERAPEUTIC USES THEREOF - The transporter that translocates ergothioneine has been identified. Described are methods for identifying and obtaining compounds capable of modulating ergothioneine transport as well as the use of such compounds for the treatment of diseases ergothioneine may be involved in such as autoimmune diseases, in particular rheumatoid arthritis, as well as other diseases arising from cell damage caused by radiation, radicals and relative oxidant species. Furthermore, diagnostic means and methods for determining the presence or susceptibility to such a disease are provided. | 08-27-2009 |