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Controlling bacterial growth using conditional bacterial extracellular vesicle/exosomes
Unmet Need: Antibiotic resistance makes existing front-line antibiotics ineffective and is attributed to more than 1 million deaths annually The World Health Organization calls antibiotic resistance “one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today”. Microbes resistant to front-line antibiotics are attributed...
Published: 4/8/2026   |   Updated: 8/18/2023   |   Inventor(s): Wenji Dong, marwa aly
Keywords(s): Antibiotic Resistance, Bacterial infection, Bacterial superbug, Clinical microbiology, Clinics and hospitals, Pharmaceutical
Category(s): Technologies > Health & Well-being > Community Health & Safety
Synergistic Use of Exo VII Inhibitors And Quinolone Antibiotics For Treating Bacterial Infection
Summary: The NCI seeks co-development partners or licensees to further develop the novel ExoVII inhibitor(s) as antibiotic adjuvants for enhancing the efficacy of quinolone antibiotics, particularly in quinolone-resistant bacterial strains. Description of Technology: Topoisomerase poisons, such as quinolone antibiotics, are widely used as anticancer...
Published: 4/24/2026   |   Updated: 8/2/2023   |   Inventor(s): Yves Pommier, Shar-yin Huang, Brianna Mitchell
Keywords(s): Antibacterial, Antibiotic Adjuvants, Antibiotic Resistance, DNA gyrase, Exonuclease VII, ExoVII, Infection, Pommier, Quinolone, TOPO IV, Topoisomerase Poisons
Category(s): Collaboration Sought > Licensing, Collaboration Sought > Collaboration, TherapeuticArea > Infectious Disease, Application > Therapeutics
Cellphone-Based Micro-Plate Reader for Point-Of-Care ELISA Testing & High-Throughput and Automated Diagnosis of Antimicrobial Resistance
Summary: UCLA researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have developed a cost-effective cellphone-based micro-plate reader to rapidly perform antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) with >99% accuracy. Background: Immunoassays are biochemical tests that are conducted to measure the presence and concentration of...
Published: 7/17/2025   |   Updated: 7/7/2022   |   Inventor(s): Aydogan Ozcan, Dino Di Carlo, Steve Feng, Bingen Cortazar Unzaga, Brandon Berg, Haydar Ozkan, Omai Garner, Derek Kuochao Tseng
Keywords(s): Antibacterial, Antibiotic Resistance, Antibody, Artificial Intelligence, Bacteria, Drug Resistance, ELISA, High-Throughput Screening, Immunoassay, Nanotechnology, Optics, Photonics, Point Of Care, Smartphone
Category(s): Life Science Research Tools, Life Science Research Tools > Antibodies, Diagnostic Markers, Optics & Photonics, Software & Algorithms > Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning