Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
424132100 | Derived from transgenic multicellular eukaryote (e.g., plant, etc.) | 26 |
20080299112 | Human Polyclonal Antibodies from Genetically Engineered Animals - Substantially human antisera are provided by genetically modifying a domestic animal generally weighing at least about 1 kg. The domestic animal is genetically modified by generating inactive heavy and light chain immunoglobulin loci and integrating at least functional portions of the human heavy and light chain immunoglobulin loci, whereby the human loci generate an immune response. The antisera find use in the treatment of diseases, immunocompromised patients and in case of transplantation. | 12-04-2008 |
20080317743 | Human Artificial Chromosome Containing Human Antibody Lambda Light Chain Gene And Non-Human Animal Containing The Human Artificial Chromosome Capable Of Genetic Transmission - The present invention relates to a human artificial chromosome which is genetically transmissible to the next generation with high efficiency and the method for using the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to: a human artificial chromosome in which an about 3.5 Mb to about 1 Mb region containing an antibody λ light chain gene derived from human chromosome 22 is bound to a chromosome fragment which is transmissible to a progeny through a germ line of a non-human animal, said chromosome fragment is derived from another human chromosome; a non-human animal carrying the human artificial chromosome and an offspring thereof; a method for producing the non-human animal; a method for producing a human antibody using the nonhuman animal or an offspring thereof; and a human antibody-producing mouse carrying the human artificial chromosome. | 12-25-2008 |
20090041761 | Method of immunizing animal, composition for immunization, method for producing antibody, method for producing hybridoma and method for producing monoclonal antibody - It is an object of the present invention to a method whereby a humoral immune response is induced more efficiently in producing an antibody against an antigen protein by gene immunization. A fusion gene composed of a gene encoding the full-length of a part of the antigen protein or a gene encoding a chaperonin subunit or a chaperonin subunit linkage linked thereto is administered to express the fusion gene in the animal, thereby inducing a humoral immune response to an antigen protein by administering. An example of the chaperonin includes | 02-12-2009 |
20090053210 | Enhanced expression of human or humanized immunoglobulin in non-human transgenic animals - The present invention describes transgenic animals with human(ized) immunoglobulin loci and transgenes encoding human(ized) Igα and/or Igβ sequences. Of particular interest are animals with transgenic heavy and light chain immunoglobulin loci capable of producing a diversified human(ized) antibody repertoire that have their endogenous production of Ig and/or endogenous Igα and/or Igβ sequences suppressed. Simultaneous expression of human(ized) immunoglobulin and human(ized) Igα and/or Igβ results in normal B-cell development, affinity maturation and efficient expression of human(ized) antibodies. | 02-26-2009 |
20090087428 | ANTI-FC-GAMMA RIIB RECEPTOR ANTIBODY AND USES THEREFOR - The present application describes antibodies that selectively bind human FcγRIIB, with little or no binding to other human FcγRs, e.g., human FcγRIIA. The invention also provides isolated bispecific antibodies comprising an antibody that selectively binds FcγRIIB, and a second antibody that specifically binds an activating receptor. Various uses, including therapeutic uses, for those antibodies are also described, including administration with anti-tumor antibodies and methods of inhibiting immune responses and suppressing histamine release. | 04-02-2009 |
20090186017 | Graft-Versus-Host Disease Predicting Marker and Use Thereof - A test method that provides data useful in predicting the probability of onset of acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is described along with a kit for performing the method, and a pharmaceutical preparation and a molecular targeted therapy for treating or preventing GVHD. The test method includes measuring the blood DNAM-1 concentration of a patient of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from bone marrow or the like over a period after the transplantation to provide data concerning the transition of the concentration to an abnormally high level deviating from the normal range, whereby the probability of the development of acute graft-versus-host disease is predicted, the risk of the development is estimated, or therapeutic effects after the development are evaluated. Concerning the molecular targeted therapy and pharmaceutical preparation used therefor wherein blood DNAM-1 of a GVHD patient or a graft recipient that is a possible patient is used as a target molecule, GVHD is treated or prevented by administering an anti-DNAM-1 antibody that is a neutralizing antibody. | 07-23-2009 |
20090220494 | Antibodies produced in a transgenic avian - The invention includes compositions comprising novel forms of glycosylated human interferon-α. | 09-03-2009 |
20100183589 | HUMAN BLOOD PROTEINS EXPRESSED IN MONOCOT SEEDS - The invention is directed to blood proteins produced in monocot seeds and isolated therefrom for use in therapeutic compositions, and to methods of making these isolated blood proteins and to therapeutic compositions comprising them. | 07-22-2010 |
20100272715 | VARIABLE ANTIBODIES - The present invention discloses inhibitory antibodies against Factor VIII with modified glycosylation, either by enzymatic deglycosylation or by site directed mutagenesis. Said antibodies with modified glycosylation have equal affinity for FVIII but show different inhibiting properties. The use of one or a mixture of said antibodies allow modulation of the inhibition of factor VIII to levels between 40 and 95%. The present invention further discloses pharmaceutical compositions comprising inhibitory antibodies against Factor VIII with modified glycosylation, combinations of these antibodies and methods for treating haemostasis disorders using said antibodies and antibody mixtures. | 10-28-2010 |
20100297110 | ANTIBODY SPECIFIC FOR HUMAN IL-4 FOR THE TREATMENT OF CANCER - The present invention relates to the use of an antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof with specific binding activity for human interleukin-4 for the prevention and/or treatment of cancer. | 11-25-2010 |
20100303806 | Avian derivedantibodies - The invention encompasses among other things antibodies including cytotoxic antibodies such as anti-CD20 having avian N-linked glycosylation patterns obtained from egg white of eggs laid by transgenic avians. | 12-02-2010 |
20100310552 | Antibodies produced in the avian oviduct - The invention relates to transgenic avians which produce antibodies in the egg white by introducing a nucleic acid sequence into the genome of an avian embryo wherein the nucleic acid sequence comprises a nucleotide sequence encoding an antibody and to the antibodies and to methods related thereto. | 12-09-2010 |
20110091450 | METHODS FOR TREATING DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR COAGULATION BY INHIBITING MASP-2 DEPENDENT COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION - In one aspect, the invention provides methods of inhibiting the effects of MASP-2-dependent complement activation in a living subject. In one embodiment, the invention provides methods of treating a subject suffering from a complement mediated coagulation disorder, such as disseminated intravascular coagulation. The methods comprise the step of administering, to a subject in need thereof, an amount of a MASP-2 inhibitory agent effective to inhibit MASP-2-dependent complement activation. In some embodiments, the MASP-2 inhibitory agent inhibits cellular injury associated with MASP-2-mediated alternative complement pathway activation, while leaving the classical (C1q-dependent) pathway component of the immune system intact. In another aspect, the invention provides compositions for inhibiting the effects of lectin-dependent complement activation, comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a MASP-2 inhibitory agent and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. | 04-21-2011 |
20120034207 | PRODUCTION OF HER RECEPTOR ANTIBODIES IN PLANT - A method of making an antibody in plants that binds to a HER receptor is described. The antibody preferably contains sequences from trastuzumab that have been optimized for expression in plants. | 02-09-2012 |
20120114635 | ANTIBODIES TO CROSS-LINKED AMYLOID BETA OLIGOMERS - The invention relates to antibodies that bind cross-linked amyloid β oligomers, and methods for using such antibodies for diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer's disease. | 05-10-2012 |
20120288493 | METHOD OF INHIBITNG COMPLEMENT ACTIVATION WITH HUMAN ANTI-FACTOR C3 ANTIBODIES AND USE THEREOF - A method of inhibiting complement activation mediated by C3b inhibitors in a subject includes administering a C3B inhibitor to the subject to inhibit at least one of C3b binding to factors B and properdin, inhibit C3 cleavage, inhibit the activation of neutrophils, monocytes, platelets, and endothelium; or inhibit the formation of C3a, C5a, and MAC. | 11-15-2012 |
20130004480 | CD20 Binding Molecules for the Treatment of Copd - Use of CD20 binding molecules, such as anti-CD20 antibodies, for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). | 01-03-2013 |
20130089539 | KIM-1 ANTIBODIES FOR TREATMENT OF TH2-MEDIATED CONDITIONS - Compositions and methods for treating Th2- and Th1-mediated disease are provided. | 04-11-2013 |
20130344057 | BINDING MOLECULES - The present invention relates to the manufacture of a diverse repertoire of functional heavy chain-only antibodies that undergo affinity maturation, and uses thereof. The invention also relates to the manufacture and use of a diverse repertoire of class-specific heavy chain-only antibodies and to the manufacture and use of multivalent polypeptide complexes with antibody heavy chain functionality, preferably antibody heavy chain binding functionality, constant region effector activity and, optionally, additional effector functions. | 12-26-2013 |
20140017228 | HUMANIZED LIGHT CHAIN MICE - Non-human animals, tissues, cells, and genetic material are provided that comprise a modification of an endogenous non-human heavy chain immunoglobulin sequence and that comprise an ADAM6 activity functional in a mouse, wherein the non-human animals express a human immunoglobulin heavy chain variable domain and a cognate human immunoglobulin λ light chain variable domain. | 01-16-2014 |
20140017229 | Methods of Modifying Eukaryotic Cells - A method for engineering and utilizing large DNA vectors to target, via homologous recombination, and modify, in any desirable fashion, endogenous genes and chromosomal loci in eukaryotic cells. These large DNA targeting vectors for eukaryotic cells, termed LTVECs, are derived from fragments of cloned genomic DNA larger than those typically used by other approaches intended to perform homologous targeting in eukaryotic cells. Also provided is a rapid and convenient method of detecting eukaryotic cells in which the LTVEC has correctly targeted and modified the desired endogenous gene(s) or chromosomal locus (loci) as well as the use of these cells to generate organisms bearing the genetic modification. | 01-16-2014 |
20140023637 | Methods of Modifying Eukaryotic Cells - A method for engineering and utilizing large DNA vectors to target, via homologous recombination, and modify, in any desirable fashion, endogenous genes and chromosomal loci in eukaryotic cells. These large DNA targeting vectors for eukaryotic cells, termed LTVECs, are derived from fragments of cloned genomic DNA larger than those typically used by other approaches intended to perform homologous targeting in eukaryotic cells. Also provided is a rapid and convenient method of detecting eukaryotic cells in which the LTVEC has correctly targeted and modified the desired endogenous gene(s) or chromosomal locus (loci) as well as the use of these cells to generate organisms bearing the genetic modification. | 01-23-2014 |
20140037616 | IMMUNOGLOBULIN 1 - The present invention relates to a method for the generation of single chain immunoglobulins in a mammal. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for the generation of single chain camelid VHH antibodies in a mammal which undergo the process of class-switching and affinity maturation found within antibody producing B cells. Single chain antibodies generated using the method of the present invention and the uses thereof are also described. | 02-06-2014 |
20140134156 | ANIMAL MODELS AND THERAPEUTIC MOLECULES - The invention discloses methods for the generation of chimaeric human-non-human antibodies and chimaeric antibody chains, antibodies and antibody chains so produced, and derivatives thereof including fully humanised antibodies; compositions comprising said antibodies, antibody chains and derivatives, as well as cells, non-human mammals and vectors, suitable for use in said methods. | 05-15-2014 |
20140248261 | ANTIBODY AGAINST MUTANT ALPHA-ACTININ-4 - An antibody against mutant α-actinin-4 having an amino acid sequence with at least one amino acid residue substitution in the region between position 245 and 263 in the amino acid sequence of α-actinin-4, wherein the antibody recognizes all or a part of the substituted amino acid residue(s) in the region. | 09-04-2014 |
20150307595 | HUMAN POLYCLONAL ANTIBODIES FROM GENETICALLY ENGINEERED ANIMALS - Substantially human antisera are provided by genetically modifying a domestic animal generally weighing at least about 1 kg. The domestic animal is genetically modified by generating inactive heavy and light chain immunoglobulin loci and integrating at least functional portions of the human heavy and light chain immunoglobulin loci, whereby the human loci generate an immune response. The antisera find use in the treatment of diseases, immunocompromised patients and in case of transplantation. | 10-29-2015 |