Quidel Corporation

Vetstem Biopharma, Inc.

Vet-stem, Inc.

Disan, Inc.

Microscan, Inc.

Theodore T Sand

Robert J Harman, Jr

Allan D Pronovost

Jan W Pawlak

Shoshana Bascomb

Mahmoud Ladjevardi

William P Kolb

Roger Kelley

Robert Badal

James A Gordon

Cathy A Bacquet

Barbara McLaughlin

Robert J Harman

The present invention provides novel stem cell compositions having significant therapeutic and practical advantages, as well as methods of preparing and using such compositions for the treatment and prevention of injury and disease in patients. The invention may be applied to stem cell populations isolated from a wide variety of animals, including humans, and tissues. In particular applications, the invention is used to prepare a stem cell composition from a collagen-based tissue, such as adipose tissue, isolated from a patient, and the stem cell composition is subsequently provided to a site of actual or potential injury in the patient. The invention further includes related kits comprising the stem cell compositions, which are remarkably stable and retain viability and efficacy during storage and shipment.

Methods of preparing and using novel stem cell compositions and kits comprising the same

An assay system has a chamber that receives a test strip onto which a sample comprising an analyte has been placed. The chamber is in gaseous communication with a piezoelectric material that generates an electrical signal in response to a pressure change in the chamber that is caused by a reaction between the analyte and a reagent.

Pressure transduced chemical assay and method

A 'one step' device for the detection of analytein clinical assays is disclosed. A visible label comprising a visible moiety and a ligand that binds to or competes with analyte is contained in a fluid conducting membrane or prefilter; and the analyte and associated ligand are conducted by the flow of sample into a detection zone. The detection zone contains a capture reagent that binds to label or to analyte bound to label.

Assay device for one step detection of analyte

Polysaccharide antigens characteristic of Group A or B Streptococci are extracted for use in immunodiagnostic assays by a simplified method. The method involves the use of two dried reagents, sodium nitrite and Tris base, and a liquid reagent, acetic acid.

Simplified extraction method for bacterial antigens using dried reagents

This invention relates to a method to determine susceptibility to antimicrobial agents of a majority of clinically significant Gram positive organisms. This invention also relates to a mixture of fluorogenic substrates used to detect the growth of Gram positive bacteria.

Method and composition for determining antimicrobial susceptibility of

Red Blood Cells (RBC's) are removed from whole blood samples by contacting the whole blood sample with a solution containing an acid selected from the group consisting of acetic acid, citric acid, ascorbic acid, lactic acid, maleic acid, malic acid, and malonic acid. The agglutinated RBC's are then removed from the resultant suspension by procedures of filtration, centrifugation or decantation, leaving an essentially RBC-free serum or plasma sample.

Method to remove red blood cells from whole blood samples

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