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7407672 Composition derived from biological materials and method of use and preparation  
The invention provides a novel composition and methods of its preparation and uses. The composition comprises as main components serum and a gelling agent and is useful in various medical...
7408096 Expression of Cry3B insecticidal protein in plants  
The present invention discloses methods and compositions comprising a novel expression cassette providing significantly improved levels of accumulation of Coleopteran inhibitory Cry3B variant...
7407661 Methods and reagents that generate a CD8 T cell immune response  
New methods and reagents for vaccination are described which generate a CD8 T cell immune response against malarial and other antigens such as viral and tumour antigens. Novel vaccination regimes...
7404950 Induced activation in dendritic cell  
The present invention is directed to a composition and method which to treat diseases and to enhance a regulated immune response. More particularly, the present invention is drawn to compositions...
7402427 Vectors with modified protease-dependent tropism  
The present invention provides cell fusogenic vectors having replicative ability, whose protease-dependent tropism has been modified. M gene-deficient viral vectors encoding modified F proteins, in...
7402429 Host cells comprising cDNA corresponding to the antigenome of nonsegmented negative strand RNA viruses, further encoding antigenically active proteins  
The present invention relates, in general, to a methodology for the generation or nonsegmented negative-strand RNA viruses (Pringle, 1991) from cloned deoxyribonucleic acid (cDNA). Such rescued...
7402307 Method for identifying and killing cancer cells  
The invention provides a method for activating a T lymphocyte by contacting the T lymphocyte with a dendritic cell (DC) that presents a telomerase reverse transcriptase (TRT) peptide in the context...
7399476 Nucleic acid free ghost preparations  
The invention relates to preparations of bacterial ghosts which are substantially free of living bacterial cells and/or nucleic acids and their use in pharmaceutical preparations.
7399750 Methods for cardiac gene transfer  
Methods for the delivery of genes to improve cardiac function including the use of viral vectors, isolation of the heart from systemic circulation, and induction of hypothermia/cardiac arrest are...
7396528 Corneal cells expressing active agents and methods of use thereof  
The invention relates to methods of modifying cells of corneal tissue to express an active agent, to modified corneal tissue, to vectors utilised in such methods and to methods of xeno- and...
7396821 Intravascular delivery of nucleic acid  
Disclosed is a process for transfecting genetic material into a mammalian cell to alter endogenous properties of the cell. The process comprises designing a polynucleotide for transfection. Then...
7396980 Defensin polynucleotides and methods of use  
Methods and compositions for modulating development and defense responses are provided. Nucleotide sequences encoding defensin proteins are provided. The sequences can be used in expression...
7393525 Method for introducing and expressing genes in animal cells, and live invasive bacterial vectors for use in the same  
A method for introducing and expressing genes in animal cells is disclosed comprising infecting said the animal cells with live invasive bacteria, wherein bacteria contain a eukaryotic expression...
7393526 Systemic gene delivery vehicles for the treatment of tumors  
The present invention relates to the field of cellular and molecular therapy with modified (genetically or growth factor engineered) and unmodified stem cells (SCs). More particularly, the...
7393677 Avidin-pseudotyped viral vectors and their use  
The present invention pertains to an avidin-pseudotyped virus, and especially baculovirus, useful for delivery of foreign genes etc. The present invention also pertains to vectors comprising...
7390482 Drug for auditory dysfunction  
The present invention provides a pharmaceutical preparation for hearing impairment, which is suitable for gene therapy of hearing impairment, that is, a pharmaceutical preparation for hearing...
7390483 Universal GM-CSF expressing bystander human K562 cell line  
The present invention provides a universal immunomodulatory cytokine-expressing bystander cell line, a composition comprising such a cell line and a cancer antigen, a method of making such a cell...
7387645 Cellular therapy to heal vascular tissue  
The present invention encompasses methods and apparatus for minimizing the risks inherent in endovascular grafting for blood vessel therapy and repair. The invention involves delivering adult stem...
7387894 Recombinant viral-based malaria vaccines  
The present invention relates to novel vaccines against malaria infections, based on recombinant viral vectors, such as alpha viruses, adenoviruses or vaccinia viruses. The recombinant viral-based...
7381710 Combined DNA vaccine and biological modifiers for cancer therapy  
The present invention relates to the combination of a DNA vaccination strategy that makes use of a nucleic acid encoding an immunogenic polypeptide, with a non-immunosuppressive inducer of tumor...
7378273 Expression vectors  
The present invention provides novel regulatory elements and vectors for the expression of one or more proteins in a host cell. The present invention also provides methods for expressing one or...
7378086 Retroviral vector having an ovalbumin promoter  
Vectors and methods are provided for introducing genetic material into cells of a chicken or other avian species. More particularly, vectors and methods are provided for transferring a transgene to...
7378569 Transgenic pigs carrying both hHO-1 and hDAF transgenes for xenotransplantation  
The invention provides a transgenic animal carrying two transgenes, one encoding a human decay accelerating factor (hDAF) and the other encoding a human heme oxygenase-1 (hHO)-1, which are useful...
7378087 Method of enhancing an immune response  
A method of enhancing an immune response to an antigen is provided. The method involves augmenting the level of a TAP molecule in a target cell bearing the antigen. Preferably, the TAP molecules...
7374752 Reovirus for the treatment of cellular proliferative disorders  
Methods for treating proliferative disorders, by administering reovirus to a Ras-mediated proliferative disorder, are disclosed. The reovirus is administered so that it ultimately directly contacts...
7371374 Neural transplantation using pluripotent neuroepithelial cells  
The subject invention pertains to a novel method of correction of behavioral and/or psychological deficits made possible by the intracerebral transplantation of pluripotent neuroepithelial cells....
7364727 Metastatic colon cancer specific promoter and uses thereof  
Colon cancer specific promoter sequences and adenovirus vehicles are provided. By providing for transcriptional initiating regulation dependent upon transcription factors that are only active in...
7364726 Pharmaceutical composition for cancer treatment containing cells that express a membrane cytokine  
This invention comprises cellular vaccines and methods of using them in cancer immunotherapy, particularly in humans. The vaccines comprise a source of tumor-associated antigen, and a...
7364728 Recombinant organisms producing insect toxins and methods for constructing same  
This invention is a method for constructing recombinant organisms that produce proteins lethal to the larvae of insects. Nucleotide sequences were isolated from Bacillus popilliae that encode two...
7364740 Molecular differences between species of the M. tuberculosis complex  
Specific genetic deletion are identified in mycobacteria isolates, including variations in the M. tuberculosis genome sequence between isolates, and numerous deletion present in BCG as compared...
7361354 Methods for treating malignancies expressing ICAM-1 using coxsackie a group viruses  
There is disclosed a method of killing abnormal cells such as malignant cells including melanoma cells, using a virus recognizing at least one of a cell adhesion molecule and a complement...
7355099 AXMI-004, a delta-endotoxin gene and methods for its use  
Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin...
7351697 Tumor-specific vector for gene therapy  
The invention relates to a vector for the gene therapeutic treatment of tumors, especially in connection with radiotherapy. Said vector is provided with a therapeutic gene in the DNA sequence...
7351881 AXMI-008, a delta-endotoxin gene and methods for its use  
Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin and...
7347998 Method of delivering therapeutic agents to site of tissue injury  
A viral or non-viral vector particle having a modified viral surface protein wherein the viral surface protein is modified to include a targeting polypeptide including a binding region which binds...
7344710 Combination bacteriolytic therapy for the treatment of tumors  
Current chemotherapeutic approaches for cancer are in part limited by the inability of drugs to destroy neoplastic cells within poorly vascularized compartments of tumors. We have here...
7344711 Use of adenoviruses mutated in the VA genes for cancer treatment  
This invention refers to the use of an adenovirus for cancer treatment, being this adenovirus defective in its virus-associated (VA) RNAs. Said adenovirus has a mutation in the VAI or VAII gene...
7344872 Method for rapid screening of bacterial transformants and novel simian adenovirus proteins  
Chimpanzee serotype C68 proteins, peptides, and polypeptide are provided. Also provided are novel adenoviruses derived from these proteins, as well as compositions containing these proteins and...
7342002 Molecular vaccine linking an endoplasmic chaperone polypeptide to an antigen  
This invention provides compositions and methods for inducing and enhancing immune responses, such as antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses, using chimeric molecules comprising...
7341718 Neuronal gene transfer of adenovirus and herpes virus vectors  
The present invention is related to compositions and methods for the delivery of nucleic acids to neurons in a mammal, and uses thereof. The present invention specifically discloses the use of...
7338655 Gene therapy using TGF-β  
The subject invention is related to a cell-mediated gene therapy treatment for orthopedic disease using a member belonging to the transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) superfamily. TGF-β gene...
7338656 Composition and method to alter lean body mass and bone properties in a subject  
A method for decreasing the body fat proportion, increasing lean body mass, increasing bone density, or improving the rate of bone healing, or all, of a subject. Embodiments of the invention...
7335505 Materials and methods relating to protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disease  
The present invention provides methods of proteolytically converting a precursor protein (e.g. tau) to a product fragment (e.g., a 12 kd fragment) in a stable cell line, wherein the precursor...
7332324 Attenuated vaccine useful for immunizations against Coccidioides spp. infections  
A Coccidioides spp. fungus that is attenuated by the loss of endosporulation potential of the fungus wherein said fungus does not replicate when transformed into the parasitic phase.
7332337 Viral vectors having tissue tropism for T-lymphocytes, B- and mast cells  
The present invention relates to methods of introducing an expressible non-viral nucleic acid sequence into a T lymphocyte cell, a B-cell, or a mast cell, comprising contacting the cell with a...
7329807 High-efficiency fusogenic vesicles, methods of producing them, and pharmaceutical compositions containing them  
The present invention relates to novel fusogenic vesicles as highly efficient and versatile encapsulation systems for delivering a substance of choice, such as nucleic acids, proteins, peptides,...
7326692 Induction of immunity using inhibitors of granzymes  
The present invention provides methods for enhancing host immunity to a virus and/or a cancer and methods for enhancing the cytotoxic T-cell (CTL) mediated immune responses by providing granzyme B...
7323165 Production of pancreatic islet cells and delivery of insulin  
The present invention relates to the production of islet cells and insulin in a subject by providing for expression of an islet transcription factors in the pancreas of the subject, by for example,...
7323623 RHIZOC3 nucleic acid molecules  
The present invention is directed to nucleic acid molecules tat encode defensive polypeptides and methods of their use in enhancing disease resistance of a plant to a fungal pathogen. Vectors,...
7320963 Methods and compositions for delivery of pharmaceutical agents  
Methods and compositions for delivering pharmaceutical agents into cells, in particular urothelial cells of the bladder, are provided. In the methods and compositions of the invention, a...