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7037510 Hybrids of M. tuberculosis antigens  
The present invention discloses fusion proteins of the immunodominant antigens ESAT-6 and Ag85B from Mycobacterium tuberculosis or homologues thereof, and a tuberculosis vaccine based on the...
7037712 DNA encoding ovine adenovirus (OAV287) and its use as a viral vector  
A genome of an ovine adenovirus designated OAV287 is isolated from sheep and sequenced. Portions of the genome not essential for maintenance or viability of the virus can be deleted or altered. A...
7034010 Use of recombinant gene delivery vectors for treating or preventing lysosomal storage disorders  
Gene delivery vectors, such as, for example, recombinant FIV vectors, and methods of using such vectors are provided for use in treating or preventing retinal diseases of the eye and diseases of...
7034116 Methyltransferase gene and enzyme  
A novel cytosine-5 DNA methyltransferase, isolated from Chlorella virus NYs-1, and its encoded enzyme are disclosed. The methyltransferase recognizes a GpC dinucleotide in DNA. Methods of using the...
7033834 Methods and means for targeted gene delivery  
A method for producing viral gene delivery vehicles which can be transferred to pre-selected cell types by using targeting conjugates. The gene delivery vehicles comprise: 1) the gene of interest;...
7034137 Isolated mammalian membrane protein genes; related reagents  
Nucleic acids encoding various lymphocyte cell proteins from mammalian, including primate, reagents related thereto, including specific antibodies, and purified proteins are described. Methods of...
RE39078 Recombinant adenoviruses for gene therapy in cancers  
The invention concerns recombinant viruses comprising a heterologous DNA sequence under the control of expression signals specifically active in tumor cells, and their preparation and use in the...
7033585 Immunologically privileged cells and uses thereof  
The invention is directed to immunologically privileged cells, e.g., autologous, allogeneic, and xenogeneic intermediate lobe pituitary cells, for delivering polypeptides, e.g., insulin, to a...
7030099 Tumor specific promoters of the midkine gene that allow for selective expression in P53-inactivated cells  
A DNA comprising a 609 bp base sequence from −559 to +50 when the first base sequence of exon 1 of the midkine gene, a human retinoic acid-responsive growth/differentiation factor was set as +1,...
7029668 Stimulation of angiogenesis via enhanced endothelial expression of syndecan-4 core proteins  
The present invention provides tangible means and methods for stimulation of angiogenesis via enhanced endothelial expression of core proteins having a syndecan-4 cytoplasmic region...
7029682 Inactivated vaccine against feline calicivirosis  
Immunogenic preparations and vaccines, in particular which are inactivated, effective against feline calicivirosis, based on an FCV virus strain 431 as deposited at the CNCM under the accession...
7029667 DNA encoding Erwinia amylovora hypersensitive response elicitor and its use  
The present invention is directed to an isolated DNA molecule from Erwinia amylovora that encodes a protein or polypeptide which elicits a hyersensitive response in plants. This isolated DNA...
7030295 Modified Cry3A toxins and nucleic acid sequences coding therefor  
Compositions and methods for controlling plant pests are disclosed. In particular, novel nucleic acid sequences encoding modified Cry3A toxins having increased toxicity to corn rootworm are...
7029666 Uses for non-autologous mesenchymal stem cells  
Methods and devices using non-autologous mesenchymal stem cells comprising treating a recipient in need thereof with an effective amount of non-autologous mesenchymal stem cells, including methods...
7025970 Modified poxviruses, including modified smallpox virus vaccine based on recombinant drug-sensitive vaccinia virus, and new selection methods  
The present invention provides recombinant poxviruses, such as vaccinia virus, that contain an integrated exogenous sequence, such as a foreign gene, encoding a prodrug converting polypeptide that...
7026113 EIA vaccine and diagnostic  
The invention provides an equine infectious anemia (EIA) vaccine that provides immunity to mammals, especially equines, from infection with equine infectious anemia virus (EIAV) and which allows...
7025967 Recombinant protein production in bovine adenovirus expression vector system  
The present invention relates novel live bovine adenovirus (BAV) expression vector systems in which part or all of one or both of the early region 1 (E1) and early region 3 (E3) genes are deleted...
7022320 Mycobacterium tuberculosis immunization  
Recombinant nucleic acid molecules are described. The molecules have a sequence or sequences encoding at least two M. tuberculosis antigens. Vectors and compositions containing these molecules...
7022319 Vectors carrying therapeutic genes encoding antimicrobial peptides for gene therapy  
The present invention relates to recombinant vectors carrying sequences encoding naturally occurring antimicrobial peptides or derivatives thereof for the treatment of mammalian tumours and viral...
7022321 Use of marrow-derived glial progenitor cells as gene delivery vehicles into the central nervous system  
The present disclosure relates to a method for introducing a hematopoietic cell into the brain of a mammal, by administering bone marrow-derived progenitor cells into the body of the mammal by...
7022897 Polynucleotides encoding Δ-endotoxins toxic to lepidoptera and coleoptera, and method of use  
Disclosed are novel polynucleotides encoding Lepidopteran- and Coleopteran-active δ-endotoxin polypeptides and compositions comprising the polypeptides. Also disclosed are vectors, transformed...
7018628 Vectors derived from baculovirus and use for transferring nucleic acids into nerve cells of vertebrates  
The invention concerns novel recombinant viruses and their use for gene-transfer into nerve cells of vertebrates. The invention also concerns pharmaceutical compositions comprising said recombinant...
7018835 Recombinant double-stranded RNA phage, and use of the same  
A recombinant double stranded RNA (dsRNA) phage expresses dsRNA-encoded genes in eukaryote cells. Recombinant dsRNA phage are useful for the expression of dsRNA expression cassettes encoding...
7014847 Methods for preventing reovirus recognition for the treatment of cellular proliferative disorders  
The present invention pertains to methods for preventing reovirus recognition in the treatment of cellular proliferative disorders, and particularly ras-mediated cellular proliferative disorders,...
7015205 Melanoma vaccine and methods of making and using same  
An immunotherapeutic vaccine providing antigen presenting cells that have been pulsed with a disrupted cell preparation which includes enucleated cytosol and cell membranes of cancer cells infected...
7015204 Protective immunity or immunological tolerance induced with RNA particularly total cellular RNA  
Effective anti-tumor immunity is induced in mice utilizing RNA-pulsed epidermal cells (EC) for in vivo immunization or by injecting RNA intradermally into naïve mice. A vaccine comprising total...
7011828 Implanting neural progenitor cells derived for human embryonic stem cells  
The present invention relates to undifferentiated human embryonic stem cells, methods of cultivation and propagation and production of differentiated cells. In particular it relates to the...
7011976 Adenovirus vectors specific for cells expressing alpha-fetoprotein and methods of use thereof  
Replication competent adenoviral vectors specific for cells expressing alfa-fetoprotein (AFP) are provided. These replication-competetent adenoviral vectors comprise adenovirus genes essential for...
7005127 Mixed-cell gene therapy  
The subject invention is directed to a mixed cell composition to generate a therapeutic protein at a target site by providing a first population of mammalian cells transfected or transduced with a...
7005126 Method for tumor treatment using infusion of xenogeneic cells to induce hyperacute rejection and innocent bystander effect  
A method for treating tumors. Through infusion or xenotransplantation of xenogeneic cells, such as infusion of murine cells into the peritoneal cavity of humans, a hyperacute rejection response to...
7005562 SAR and pathogen-inducible promoter  
The Arabidopsis NI16 gene was isolated in a yeast 2-hybrid screen via its interaction with the NIM1 protein and encodes a protein involved in the regulation of SAR gene expression in plants. NI16...
7005424 Nucleic acid encoding an E1A gene product sensitizes HER-2/neu overexpressing cancer cells to chemotherapy  
The present invention relates to methods for the inhibition, of the gene product of the neu oncogene, p185neu tyrosine kinase. Over-expression of the neu oncogene leads to chemoresistance. The...
7005277 Defective adenoviruses and corresponding complementation lines  
Novel defective adenoviruses for the transfer and expression of an exogenous nucleotide sequence in a host cell or organism. The invention also relates to novel complementation lines and to the...
7001756 Microorganism strain of GM-020 of Lactobacillus rhamnosus and its use for treating obesity  
The present invention provides an isolated microorganism strain, Lactobacillus rhamnosus GM-020, which is found to be effective in treating obesity and a complication thereof. The use of the ...
7001764 Compositions comprising tissue specific adenoviral vectors  
Compositions comprising host cell specific adenovirus vehicles are provided for transfecting target host cells. The compositions comprise replication competent adenovirus having an adenovirus gene...
6998117 Cancer treatment with retroviral vectors comprising wild-type p53  
Disclosed are methods and compositions for the selective manipulation of gene expression through the preparation of retroviral expression vectors for expressing antisense sequences, such as K-ras...
6998118 Targeted retrograde gene delivery for neuronal protection  
Methods are disclosed for transducing neurons with heterologous genes using retrograde viral transport. The methods disclosed employ substantially non-toxic vectors, such as adeno-associated virus...
6995010 Gene transfer method  
A method of transferring a foreign gene into cells, characterized by involving: the step of transferring into the cells with the use of an adenovirus vector, a first nucleic acid, which has a...
6991900 Methods for identifying an essential gene in a prokaryotic microorganism  
Methods are provided for the rapid identification of essential or conditionally essential DNA segments in any species of haploid cell (one copy chromosome per cell) that is capable of being...
6991787 Methods of preparing bone marrow stromal cells for use in gene therapy  
This invention relates to sequential methods of cryopreserving bone marrow stromal cells that are transfected and used for gene therapy by transplantation. These methods include the following steps...
6991792 Prevention of autoimmune diabetes by immunogene therapy using recombinant vaccinia virus expressing glutamic acid decarboxylase  
A vaccine including recombinant vaccinia virus (ATCC VR-1354) having an inserted gene for coding glutamic acid decarboxylase is used for preventing type 1 diabetes mellitus. The glutamic acid...
6991786 Anti-microbial biotherapeutic agents: alternatives to conventional pharmaceutical antibiotics  
Novel antimicrobial agents that can serve as replacements to conventional pharmaceutical antibiotics are disclosed. The antimicrobial agents comprise conjugatively transmissible plasmids that kill...
6991935 Target cell-specific adenoviral vectors containing E3 and methods of use thereof  
The invention provides adenoviral vectors (preferably replication competent) comprising both an E3 sequence and at least one adenoviral gene under transcriptional control of a target cell-specific...
6989375 Enhanced expression of transgenes  
The present invention provides for improved methods of gene transfer, both in vitro and in vivo. By treating neoplastic cells with a DNA-damaging agent prior to transduction with a transgene, the...
6989268 Recombinant adenoviral vector and methods of use  
This invention provides a recombinant adenovirus expression vector characterized by the partial or total deletion of the adenoviral protein IX DNA and having a gene encoding a foreign protein or a...
6986887 Universal stem cells  
The subject invention pertains to materials and methods for preparing multi-potential stem cells having a pre-selected expression of MHC antigens. Stem cells of the subject invention can be used to...
6987096 Antiviral proteins and peptides, DNA coding sequences therefor, and uses thereof  
The present invention provides antiviral proteins (collectively referred to as cyanovirins), conjugates thereof, DNA sequences encoding such agents, host cells containing such DNA sequences,...
6984379 Gene therapy by administration of genetically engineered CD34+ cells obtained from cord blood  
A method of providing a therapeutic effect in a human patient which comprises administering to the patient CD34+ cells obtained from cord blood. The CD34+ cells have been engineered with at least...
6984522 Isolation and use of solid tumor stem cells  
A small percentage of cells within an established solid tumor have the properties of stem cells. These solid tumor stem cells give rise both to more tumor stem cells and to the majority of cells in...
6984380 Treatment of diseases involving faulty MHC class I antigen complex presentation  
Methods of treating autoimmune diseases, such as diabetes, characterized by faulty MHC class I antigen complex presentation are disclosed which involve exposure of the immune system of an...