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Biodegradable Coating for Frost Protection in Fruit Trees
THE CHALLENGE Temperate fruit producers face a growing challenge as climate change disrupts normal winter chill patterns and triggers earlier flowering, which leads to damaging spring frost events that can wipe out yields and destabilize annual revenue. Existing frost protection tools rely on costly equipment, heavy labor, and weather dependent performance,...
Published: 6/23/2026   |   Updated: 6/23/2026   |   Inventor(s): Sherif Sherif
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture
Optimizing AVG and ACC for Better Apple Ripening
THE CHALLENGE Apple growers face a significant challenge in balancing fruit quality and yield due to the complex role of ethylene, a plant hormone that both enhances red coloration and accelerates fruit drop before harvest. While ethylene inhibitors like AVG and 1-MCP are used to reduce losses from premature fruit detachment, they also suppress anthocyanin...
Published: 2/16/2026   |   Updated: 7/10/2025   |   Inventor(s): Sherif Sherif
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture
Delaying Bloom in Crops via Jasmonic Acid Inhibitors
THE CHALLENGE The challenge of protecting deciduous fruit crops from spring frost lies in the lack of cost-effective, scalable, and environmentally sustainable solutions that align with both biological timing and unpredictable weather patterns. Traditional methods like frost fans, heaters, and sprinklers are not only expensive and energy-intensive...
Published: 6/25/2025   |   Updated: 4/16/2025   |   Inventor(s): Sherif Sherif, Jianyang Liu, Tabibul Islam
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Category(s): Technology Classifications > Agriculture
Targeted Dual Drug Delivery System for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer and other diseases of the Lungs
Princeton Docket # 10-2608 Researchers in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University and in the Department of Pharmaceutics, Rutgers University have developed a targeted lung-specific delivery system which employs both passive and active targeting to intravenously deliver anti-cancer drugs to tumor cells...
Published: 6/9/2026   |   Updated: 12/1/2011   |   Inventor(s): Robert Prud'homme, Patrick Sinko, Howard Stone, Nathalie Pinkerton, Lei Shi, Jiandi Wan, Sherif Ibrahim, Dayuan Gao
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Category(s): Biotechnology/Pharmaceuticals