The Darfur cookstove, designed at Berkeley Lab and recently licensed to Oakland-based Potential Energy, was featured on KQED's Quest website. Potential Energy will produce and deliver the stoves to people in need in the Sudan. The Darfur stove works with traditional regional cookstoves to operate more efficiently, reducing the time and resources to obtain firewood. Limiting … [Read more...] about Humanitarian Invention Licensed by Oakland-based Company
Active Modulators and Perfect Shielders Based on Adiabatic Elimination 2014-090
For data and communications device companies that use waveguides to guide light in nanoscale circuits but are dissatisfied with noise and weak signal strength due to signal leakage, this new Berkeley Lab technology’s three-waveguide system is based on an adiabatic elimination (AE) mechanism that uses the middle “dark state” waveguide to separate the two outer waveguides and … [Read more...] about Active Modulators and Perfect Shielders Based on Adiabatic Elimination 2014-090
Centromere/Kinetochore Protein Genes for Cancer Prognosis, Diagnosis, and Treatment 2013-163
Based on a signature of 21 CEN/KT genes demonstrated to be linked to the progression of many different types of cancers, this technology has the potential to identify early stage patients at high risk for disease progression, predict survival prognosis and the risk of metastatic relapse for patients being treated for multiple cancers at various pathological stages, and predict … [Read more...] about Centromere/Kinetochore Protein Genes for Cancer Prognosis, Diagnosis, and Treatment 2013-163
Golgi Nucleotide Sugar Transporters as Tools for Cell Wall Modification 2013-092
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Feedstocks for biofuel production Non-plant glycosylation ADVANTAGES: Engineers plant cell wall composition by manipulating sugar substrates Offers pathway to optimizing plant cell walls for sugar content ABSTRACT: This Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) invention engineers plants by specifically modifying nucleotide sugar … [Read more...] about Golgi Nucleotide Sugar Transporters as Tools for Cell Wall Modification 2013-092
Engineered Microorganisms Resistant to Ionic Liquids 2013-120
APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY: Biofuel production Renewable chemical production ADVANTAGES: Improves the commercial viability of microbially produced biofuels Approximately doubles the yield of Soluble sugars from biomass Biofuels from fermentation reactions ABSTRACT: Many biofuel companies pretreat biomass with an ionic liquid (IL) to separate … [Read more...] about Engineered Microorganisms Resistant to Ionic Liquids 2013-120