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| 20120129221 | BIOCHEMICAL PLATFORM FOR FUELS AND CHEMICALS PRODUCTION FROM CELLULOSIC BIOMASS - An alternative biochemical process for fuels and chemicals production from cellulosic biomass is presented. The method includes an aerobic step where microorganisms convert carbohydrates contained in cellulosic biomass into sugar acids, which can be converted to fuels and chemicals, including ethanol, gluconate, and acetic acid, via fermentation. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120080147 | THIN FILM COMPOSITE MEMBRANES AND THEIR METHOD OF PREPARATION AND USE - The present invention is a technique to fabricate thin-film composite perm-selective membranes by a transfer method. The composite membranes are useful in separating liquid, vapor or gaseous mixtures by selective permeation and reduce mass transfer resistance of the support layer. Selectivity and flux are improved by reduction of the mass transfer resistance of the support layer. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120035272 | Method to Ameliorate Oxidative Stress and Improve Working Memory Via Pterostilbene Administration - Disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition for treating oxidative stress comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a substantially pure compound of pterostilbene and a physiologically acceptable carrier. Pterostilbene is administered in an amount between about 2.5 mg to about 10 mg per kilogram of subject body weight. Also disclosed is a method for increasing a working memory of a subject, the method comprising administrating an effective amount of a substantially pure compound of pterostilbene, wherein the working memory for a subject increase and the therapeutic effectiveness is about 10 mg of pterostilbene per kilogram of subject body weight. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120009209 | ENRICHMENT AND PURIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS PRION PROTEINS - Peptide sequences that specifically bind infectious prion protein for the generation of antibodies and therapeutic agents are disclosed herein. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20110302823 | ATTRACTANT COMPOSITIONS FOR WEEVILS OF THE GENUS OTIORHYNCHUS AND USES THEREOF - The present invention relates to formulations of volatile organic compounds having effects on | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110277177 | Soybean Genes for Resistance to Aphis Glycines - resistance (RAG) genes are provided by this invention, along with methods for identifying their presence using marker-assisted selection. Varieties of | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110262983 | METABOLICALLY ENGINEERED YEASTS FOR THE PRODUCTION OF ETHANOL AND OTHER PRODUCTS FROM XYLOSE AND CELLOBIOSE - The present invention provides yeast cells that produce high concentrations of ethanol, culture media and bioreactors comprising the yeast cells, and methods for making and using the yeast cells in efficiently producing ethanol. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110191918 | Peach rootstock HBOK 32 - The new ‘HBOK 32’ rootstock, a hybrid between two peach parents, is useful as a commercial under-stock for peach and nectarine cultivars. The stock has been successfully propagated clonally by leafy cuttings and tissue culture. This rootstock imparts significant vigor control to the scion cultivar that is propagated on top of it. This rootstock produces very few root suckers, its anchorage is good and it is resistant to root-knot nematode. Utilization of adapted growth controlling rootstocks in commercial orchard situations reduces the height of the tree and the amount of wood pruned in the winter and summer, without compromising the quality of the fruit. This in turn increases the efficiency of various cultural operations such as pruning, thinning and harvesting by reducing the need for workers in the field to use tall ladders when carrying out these operations. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110179511 | ISOLATED RICE LP2 PROMOTERS AND USES THEREOF - The present invention relates to isolated rice LP2 promoter sequences and uses thereof. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110154548 | Peach Tree Rootstock Named 'HBOK 10' - The new ‘HBOK 10’ rootstock, a hybrid between two peach parents, is useful as a commercial under-stock for peach and nectarine cultivars. The stock has been successfully propagated clonally by leafy cuttings and tissue culture. This rootstock imparts significant vigor control to the scion cultivar that is propagated on top of it. This rootstock produces very few root suckers, its anchorage is good and it is resistant to root-knot nematode. Utilization of adapted growth controlling rootstocks in commercial orchard situations reduces the height of the tree and the amount of wood pruned in the winter and summer, without compromising the quality of the fruit. This in turn increases the efficiency of various cultural operations such as pruning, thinning and harvesting by reducing the need for workers in the field to use tall ladders when carrying out these operations. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110154547 | Peach rootstock named 'HBOK 50' - A new and distinct variety of peach rootstock denominated ‘HBOK 50’ is described. The ‘HBOK 50’ peach rootstock offers size control ability, root knot nematode resistance, less wood from dormant and summer pruning, and production of fewer root suckers. ‘HBOK 50’ has contributed to size reduction of compound trees when it is used as a clonally-produced rootstock with the fresh market peach “O'Henry”. No evidence of graft incompatibility or other abnormalities have been noted in such circumstances. Fruit on compound trees with ‘HBOK 50’ rootstocks is either similar in size or smaller than ‘Nemaguard’. The ‘HBOK 50’ rootstock displays root knot nematode resistance levels similar to ‘Nemaguard’ and more resistant than ‘Lovell’. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110136237 | SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION SYSTEMS FOR USE IN EUKARYOTIC CELLS - Prokaryotic recombination systems have been adapted to function in eukaryotes in order to achieve one or more of the following: DNA site specific excision, translocation, integration and inversion. These recombination systems are identified as seven members of the small serine resolvase subfamily: CinH, ParA, Tn1721, Tn5053, Tn21, Tn402, and Tn501 and three members of the large serine resolvase subfamily: Bxb1, U153, and TP901-1. These recombination systems represent new tools for the genetic manipulation of eukaryotic genomes. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20100313307 | PROTEIN PRODUCTION AND STORAGE IN PLANTS - A transgenic dicotyledonous plant having a deficiency of one or more plant seed storage proteins, further having a transgenic polynucleotide construct comprising an open reading frame operably linked to a storage protein promoter and an ER signal sequence. The polynucleotide construct encodes a protein product that can accumulate at high levels in the seed. Also provided are methods of producing a heterologous protein in a plant seed. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100254957 | GROWTH MEDIA AND SAPROPHYTIC USE FOR PICHIA ANOMALA - A biologically pure culture of a yeast of the species | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100068815 | SITE-SPECIFIC RECOMBINATION SYSTEMS FOR USE IN EUKARYOTIC CELLS - Prokaryotic recombination systems have been adapted to function in eukaryotes in order to achieve one or more of the following: DNA site specific excision, translocation, integration and inversion. These recombination systems are identified as seven members of the small serine resolvase subfamily: CinH, ParA, Tn1721, Tn5053, Tn21, Tn402, and Tn501 and three members of the large serine resolvase subfamily: Bxb1, U153, and TP901-1. These recombination systems represent new tools for the genetic manipulation of eukaryotic genomes. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100057372 | RAPID IDENTIFICATION OF PROTEINS AND THEIR CORRESPONDING SOURCE ORGANISMS BY GAS PHASE FRAGMENTATION AND IDENTIFICATION OF PROTEIN BIOMARKERS - Embodiments of the present invention relate to the identification of proteins using laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry, the identification of source organisms comprising the identified proteins and a computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method for the identification of proteins using mass spectra generated through the application of laser desorption ionization mass spectrometry of the proteins. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20090317523 | METHODS FOR PREPARING FREEZE DRIED FOODS - The present invention relates to a process of manufacturing dried plant products to be used as additives in food. This invention addresses the issue of reducing the cost of freeze-drying plant material while retaining the desired characteristics of the edible plant material. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090312215 | Semi-Rigid Gel Cleansing Article and Uses Thereof - The present invention relates to semi-rigid gels, methods of manufacture and uses thereof. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090258035 | AVIAN VIRUS VACCINES AND USES THEREOF - The present invention relates to poultry vaccines for prevention of Newcastle disease. | 10-15-2009 |
| 20090148588 | Frozen Fruit and Vegetable Bars and Methods of Making - The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a frozen food product and to a frozen food product made thereby. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20090117587 | High-Affinity Monoclonal Antibodies for Botulinum Toxin Type A - High affinity antibodies for binding epitopes of BoNT/A and hybridomas that produce such antibodies are described. The antibodies may be used in a kit for detecting BoNT/A in a sample. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090062124 | Ethephon-induced enhancement of seedling development - The growth and development of agronomically important plants which are cultivated under conditions of low water stress or drought, is enhanced by an application of relatively low concentrations of ethephon to the seed or to the growing plant at a stage of growth between the cotyledon stage and the six-leaf stage. Application of the cytokinins is effective to elicit one or more effects in the resultant plant including increased lateral root development, increased root hair development along the seminal roots, thickening of the hypocotyl, increased rate of leaf development, and enhancement of the reproductive process (i.e., increased fruiting or increased rate of development of fruiting branches). | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090044722 | Processing for producing zein articles with limited solubility - Zein articles are prepared by a melt process where zein is mixed with glyoxal and an inorganic base solution at temperatures above about 40° C. The melt processing can take as a batch process (e.g., as in a torque rheometer) or in a continuous process (e.g., as in reaction extrusion using a screw extruder). This process provides a zein article that has greatly reduced solubility in most of the standard organic solvents that will dissolve unaltered zein. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090042185 | Novel polymorphism in bovine prion protein gene sequence - A specific, non-synonymous SNP in the Prnp gene encoding the bovine prion protein affects the susceptibility of bovine animals to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Depending on the number of octapeptide repeat units present in the Prnp gene, the position of the SNP is either nucleotide 631 of exon 3 (codon 211) when the Prnp gene comprises six octapeptide repeat region sequences, nucleotide 607 of exon 3 (codon 203) when the Prnp gene comprises five octapeptide repeat region sequences, or nucleotide 655 of exon 3 (codon 219) when the Prnp gene comprises seven octapeptide repeat region sequences. Alleles of the bovine Prnp wherein the SNP at these positions is lysine (K) at the corresponding amino acids (i.e., 211, 203 or 219) in the bovine prion protein are all indicative of increased susceptibility to BSE in comparison to alleles which encode glutamic acid (E) at the same position. This SNP may be used as a marker for selecting bovines susceptible to BSE for disposal and/or removal from breeding, the human food and animal feed supplies. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090023195 | Bio-based method for making mannitol - Mannitol is produced in a highly efficient fermentative method using | 01-22-2009 |
| 20090019562 | Solanum bulbocastanum polyubiquitin Bul409 promoter and uses thereof - The present invention relates to isolated | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090013422 | Solanum Bulbocastanum polyubiquitin Bul427 promoter and uses thereof - The present invention relates to isolated | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090004726 | Inhibitor Tolerant Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Strain - Furfural and 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) are representative inhibitors to ethanologenic yeast generated from biomass pretreatment using dilute acid hydrolysis. Few yeast strains tolerant to inhibitors are available. A novel tolerant strain of | 01-01-2009 |
| 20080317786 | Genetically Modified Babesia Parasites Expressing Protective Tick Antigens and Uses Thereof - The present invention relates to methods for stable transfection of | 12-25-2008 |
| 20080262752 | Non-destructive method of measuring a moisture content profile across a hygroexpansive, composite material - The teachings provided herein are generally directed to a non-destructive method of measuring a moisture content profile across a dimension of a hygroexpansive, composite material using radiation and a volumetric shrinkage correction. The measurement of a series of moisture content profiles over time can provide, for example, a measure of the movement of moisture during the process of drying of the composite material. | 10-23-2008 |
| 20080242842 | Decolorization/deodorization of corn zein products - Decolorized and/or deodorized zein from corn products may be recovered in high yields using zeolite adsorbents. A solution of a zein-containing corn product in an aqueous alcohol solvent is contacted with a zeolite adsorbent under conditions effective for adsorption of color and odor impurities in the corn product onto the zeolite. Following this contact, the treated solution may be separated from the adsorbent and recovered, yielding substantially pure zein dissolved in the aqueous alcohol solvent. Optionally, the zein may be further purified by subsequently contacting the treated solution with an activated carbon adsorbent or a mixture of activated carbon and zeolite adsorbents to adsorb any residual color and/or odor impurities therefrom. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080221246 | Water soluble films from latex - Water soluble latex compositions comprising cis 1,4 polyisoprene and a biopolymer are disclosed. The compositions may contain 0.1-10% cis 1,4 polyisoprene and are suitable for application wherein a biodegradeable water soluble product is desired. | 09-11-2008 |
| 20080202684 | Wood adhesives containing solid residues of biomass fermentations - A bioadhesive composition for bonding together adjacent surfaces of wood comprises a microbially-produced fermentation residue containing adherent microbial cells and glycocalyx. This residue finds particular application as a replacement for a significant amount of phenol-formaldehyde (PF) or other conventional adhesive component commonly used in the production of plywood and other wood products. | 08-28-2008 |
