Abstract:
Provided herein are methods for inducing cellular differentiation of undifferentiated stem cells into cells capable of functioning as sensory cells of the ear, and to pharmaceutical compositions for treating auditory conditions in a subject.
Abstract:
Provided herein are methods, compositions of matter, and devices for treating diseases and illnesses of the eye, including retinal conditions such as macular degeneration.
Abstract:
Provided herein are methods and compositions for engineering antigen-presenting cells (APCs), such as dendritic cells (DCs), macrophages, and B-Cells, that are modified to express viral antigens. With this approach, large cell banks can be created that can be rapidly modified and deployed to fight various types of infectious diseases such as those associated with coronaviruses and other viral infections.
Abstract:
The invention relates to pyrimidines and uses thereof, including to inhibit lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase null (LPAAT-null) activity and/or proliferation of cells such as tumor-cells.
Abstract:
Polypeptides are obtained, for example, via expression of encoding cDNA sequences, that have the activity of the enzyme lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase (LPAAT), also known as 1-acyl sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase.
Abstract:
Disclosed are water soluble compositions of paclitaxel and docetaxel formed by conjugating the paclitaxel or docetaxel to a water soluble polymer such as poly-glutamic acid, poly-aspartic acid or poly-lysine. Also disclosed are methods of using the compositions for treatment of tumors, auto-immune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis. Other embodiments include the coating of implantable stents for prevention of restenosis.
Abstract:
A method for high-throughput genomics analysis, to identify the therapeutic or diagnostic utility of genes, entails the use of a construct to disrupt a gene or alleles of a gene in cells of interest. Arrays of such cells can be used to monitor such disrupted cells phenotypically in the context, for example, of testing drug candidates. Polynucleotides that comprise part of the disrupted genes can be recovered from such nullknockoutnull cells, by virtue of an origin of replication or a host cell selection marker sequence that is part of the construct. The recovered polynucleotides can be used to identify the disrupted genes or to make homologous recombination vectors, which in turn can be employed to make multi-allele knockout cells. Double-stranded RNA molecules designed to target the recovered polynucleotide are used to downregulate the polynucleotide in vitro and in vivo, following determination of a therapeutically effective dosage of the RNAi molecule.