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4. presence of a patent foramen ovale with a right-to-left atrial shunt as assessed by pulsed-wave Doppler transesophageal echocardiography.
Harvard and BIOMOL Research Laboratories, its commercial partner based in Pennsylvania, have already filed a patent application for the use of “synthetic related molecules” to combat diseases of ageing—an application, Sinclair adds, “very much linked to the [polyphenols] paper.”
In August, Mike Doyle of the University of Georgia applied for a patent on some nonvirulent strains of E. coli that wipe out the nasty version when fed to cattle.
In any case, grants and patent incentives were never designed with tropical diseases in mind.
USAT 's "Money" front brings news that an obscure company has gotten a patent for software that often performs Y2K bug fixes in 80 percent less time than previous tools, bringing it business from the likes of Citibank, NationsBank and the Interior Department.