567results about "Library screening" patented technology

The present invention provides assays and assay systems for use in spatially encoded biological assays. The invention provides an assay system comprising an assay capable of high levels of multiplexing where reagents are provided to a biological sample in defined spatial patterns; instrumentation capable of controlled delivery of reagents according to the spatial patterns; and a decoding scheme providing a readout that is digital in nature.

The present invention provides assays and assay systems for use in spatially encoded biological assays. The invention provides an assay system comprising an assay capable of high levels of multiplexing where reagents are provided to a biological sample in defined spatial patterns; instrumentation capable of controlled delivery of reagents according to the spatial patterns; and a decoding scheme providing a readout that is digital in nature.

The present invention provides assays and assay systems for use in spatially encoded biological assays. The invention provides an assay system comprising an assay capable of high levels of multiplexing where reagents are provided to a biological sample in defined spatial patterns; instrumentation capable of controlled delivery of reagents according to the spatial patterns; and a decoding scheme providing a readout that is digital in nature.

The present invention provides assays and assay systems for use in spatially encoded biological assays. The invention provides an assay system comprising an assay capable of high levels of multiplexing where reagents are provided to a biological sample in defined spatial patterns; instrumentation capable of controlled delivery of reagents according to the spatial patterns; and a decoding scheme providing a readout that is digital in nature.

Compositions of retroviruses and methods of using the same for gene delivery, wherein the retroviruses comprise a viral envelope protein comprising at least one mutation that diminishes its native function, a non-viral membrane-bound protein comprising a membrane-bound domain and an extracellular targeting domain.

The invention provides a system and a method for screening Cas protein mutants capable of identifying different PAM sequences, and belongs to the technical field of bioengineering. The system comprises a Cas protein mutant screening vector and an sgRNA expression vector, the Cas protein mutant screening vector comprises the following expression elements: a Cas protein coding gene, a plasmid replicon and a first resistance screening tag expression cassette; the sgRNA expression vector comprises the following expression elements: a plasmid replicon, a second resistance screening tag expression cassette, a third resistance screening tag expression cassette and an sgRNA expression cassette. According to the system and the method, aiming at the problem that the efficiency of identifying PAM sequences except NGG by wild type spCas9 protein is low, an active Cas9 mutant capable of identifying PAM sites except NGG is screened out, and the application field and the editing efficiency of a CRISPR gene editing system can be greatly expanded.

The invention provides a nucleic acid aptamer and a screening method thereof, the aptamer is of an oligonucleotide DNA structure, the nucleotide sequence of the nucleic acid aptamer is the nucleotide sequence of any DNA fragment as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1-9, and the nucleic acid aptamer can specifically target cardiac muscle cells (CMs). According to the invention, a new strategy can be provided for clinical treatment of cardiovascular diseases, and meanwhile, bioactive molecules such as microRNA (miRNA), small interfering RNA (small interfering RNA, siRNA), lipidosome, microspheres, microcapsules and the like can be carried to be used as an intracellular drug delivery tool.

The invention belongs to the technical field of food and feed analysis and detection, and particularly provides a nano antibody for detecting bacitracin methylene salicylate, and the nano antibody comprises a nano antibody BMD-BA19 and a nano antibody BMD-CA45; the amino acid sequence of a VHH chain of the nano antibody BMD-BA19 is as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, and the amino acid sequence of a VHH chain of the nano antibody BMD-CA45 is as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2. The bacitracin methylene salicylate serves as a research object, after the bacitracin methylene salicylate is coupled with protein, an alpaca is immunized, two nano antibodies resisting bacitracin methylene salicylate are obtained through screening with a phage display technology, and a material is provided for establishing a bacitracin methylene salicylate detection method.

An automated high throughput screening platform for identification of compounds and genomic constructs having mitochondrial function modulating activity and compounds so identified are provided. Use of such compounds for modulating mitochondrial function are also disclosed. A high-throughput screening method of determining genetic mechanisms of action for therapeutic or toxic agents in genetic or pharmacologic models of disease are also provided.

Compositions, methods and systems for targeted delivery using one or more shuttles operably linked to one or more cargos (e.g., cargo polypeptides, e.g., cargo oligonucleotides) and subsequent quantification of an abundance of one or more cargos (e.g, proteins) in a mixture (e.g., a complex mixture (e.g., in vivo)) or in a specific cell, tissue, or organ of interest (e.g., in vivo) using barcodes (e.g., peptide barcodes), binders (e.g., polypeptide binders), and binding agents (e.g., phage) are provided herein.

The invention is directed to a conjugate having the general formula (I)Xn—P—YmBo  (I)with X is an detection moiety,P is a spacer unit,Y an antigen recognizing moiety,B an oligonucleotide comprising 2 to 100 nucleotide residuesand n, m, o are independent integers between 1 and 100wherein P and B are covalently bound to Y and X is covalently bound to P and wherein X is erasable.Further, the invention is directed to a library of such conjugates and a method of detecting target cells utilizing the conjugates or the library of conjugates.

In traditional plant breeding approaches, chemical mutagenesis may be utilized to introduce nucleotide substitutions at random in the genome of a plant, i.e. without possibilities to control the sites of nucleotide changes. Because of genome complexities, the statistical probability is extremely little when it comes to finding a predetermined nucleotide substitution. The present invention, however, demonstrates how a novel, alternative use of digital polymerase chain reaction (dPCR), preferably droplet dPCR (ddPCR), is developed to exploit finding of specific nucleotide substitutions in mutated genes. The entire platform comprises a screening method with a library of mutagenized organisms, digital PCR-based systems and a set-up to propagate and analyze identified, mutated organisms.

Methods for preparing a personalized cancer vaccine and a method to train a machine learning HLA-peptide presentation prediction model. Further wherein, a method of making a HLA class II tetramer or multimer comprising an epitope, the method comprising contacting a purified soluble HLA-DM loaded with a peptide epitope with a HLA class II tetramer or multimer, thereby forming a HLA class II tetramer or multimer loaded with the peptide epitope, is disclosed.

The invention belongs to the technical field of molecular biology, and particularly discloses a specific nano antibody targeting bovine TLR7 protein as well as a screening method and application of the specific nano antibody. The nano antibody can be specifically combined with a B cell antigen epitope of bovine TLR7 protein, and the B cell antigen epitope is selected from SEQ ID NO: 1 and / or SEQ ID NO: 2. The invention discloses a specific nano antibody targeting bovine TLR7 protein as well as a screening method and application of the specific nano antibody. The specific nano antibody targeting bovine TLR7 protein is high in stability and specificity and has super-strong affinity.

A genetic prime editing screening platform to identify functional variants related to human health and disease, is configured substantially to annotate genome with nucleotide resolution with actionable disease prediction and treatment for personalized medicine.

A method for analyzing macromolecules, including peptides, polypeptides, and proteins, employing nucleic acid encoding is disclosed.

A gene-leader editing screening platform for identifying functional variations associated with human health and disease, substantially configured to annotate genomes with nucleotide resolutions, accompanied by operable disease prediction and treatment for personalized medical treatment.

One aspect provided herein is an analyte processing device, comprising one or more flow channels, wherein at least one flow channel of the one or more flow channels comprise an analyte processing area; one or more excitation sources in optical communication with the analyte processing area, and comprising an optical path from the one or more excitation sources to the analyte processing area; and one or more photodetectors in optical communication with the analyte processing area, wherein the optical path comprises a light scattering control system.

Compositions which are fragrant and contain at least a member set culled from a library of compositions, each being comprised of sub-combinations of selected terpenes. Fragrances that mimic that of various states of organic and synthetic aromatics including products, processes and those from non-combusted plant products, among other things, uniquitous products, processes, medicinals, and related moieties leverage databases of all known terpene groupings are offered for consideration, and have been provided, according to the instant teachings.

The present invention provides synthetic canine antibody libraries, as well as polypeptides, nucleic acids, vectors, host cells and methods used in conjunction with these libraries. The present invention also provides antibodies isolated from such libraries.

This disclosure provides engineered sesquiterpene synthases, host cells expressing the engineered sesquiterpene synthases, and methods for making alpha-guayene.

The present invention relates to a bicyclic peptide complex comprising a peptide construct, the construct comprising: (i) a polypeptide having a free terminus (N or C); (ii) optionally a nucleic acid encoding the polypeptide; and (iii) a dyad-symmetric linker (TSL) compound attached to the polypeptide, wherein the linker is attached to the terminus of the polypeptide and to at least two distinct side chains of the peptide via a covalent bond. The present invention also relates to a library and methods for making the complex, and to screening methods using the same.

The invention relates to screening methods. In particular, it relates to a method of identifying a functional TCR from a library of particles, which displays a plurality of different T cell receptors (TCRs). The method may comprise a) exposing the library of particles to a target antigen to identify TCRs that bind to the target antigen, b) transfecting a plurality of T cells with nucleic acid encoding TCRs identified in step (a), c) exposing the plurality of transfected cells to the target antigen, and d) selecting cells having TCR activity in the presence of the target antigen. Transfection of the T cells is such that each T cell comprises a nucleic acid encoding a single TCR from the library of particles, the nucleic acid is integrated into the genome of the T cell at a single identical pre-defined locus, and the TCR is in a single chain format and comprises an alpha chain variable domain, a beta cain variable domain and a constant domain. The T cells do not express endogenous TCR. A T-cell comprising a recombinase mediated landing pad, wherein the T cell constitutively expresses TCR constant domain and does not express endogenous TCR, is also claimed.

Protease activity can be assessed using a microfluidic system that comprises a microfluidic device and solid support, wherein the solid support comprises a protease fusion protein bound to a first surface of the solid support; wherein the protease fusion protein comprises a protease domain, a protease activation sequence, and a fluorescent protein tag, wherein the fluorescent protein tag is bound to the protease domain and to the first surface of the solid support. Protease activity can be assessed in a microfluidic system by reacting an activating protease with a protease fusion protein; wherein the protease fusion protein comprises a protease domain and a protease activation sequence; wherein the activating protease cleaves the protease activation sequence, thereby activating the protease domain in the protease fusion protein to produce an activated protease fusion protein; reacting the activated protease fusion protein with a detectable substrate, thereby generating a detectable signal; and detecting the detectable signal, thereby detecting protease activity in the microfluidic system.

The invention provides methods for determining aneuploidy and / or fetal fraction in maternal samples comprising fetal and maternal ctDNA by massively parallel sequencing. The method comprises a novel protocol for preparing sequencing libraries that unexpectedly improves the quality of library DNA while expediting the process of analysis of samples for prenatal diagnoses.

Provided herein are compositions comprising a particle comprising a library encoded bead (e.g., DEL bead) coated in a polymeric matrix forming a core-shell particle, wherein the core-shell particle is further inside a 3D tissue culture. Also provided herein are methods of making such particles, and methods of using such particles for drug discovery such as identification of bioactive compounds via high-throughput cellular activity-based phenotypic screens of DNA-encoded chemical library beads.

The disclosure relates to novel soybean plants, plant parts, and nucleotide sequences in soybean plants comprising an amorphic allele of a RPF1 gene, along with methods of using and making the same.

The present application provides detection and prognosis of infectious diseases. In particular, the present application provides fragment length profiles of nucleic acid libraries, methods of generating fragment length profiles of nucleic acid libraries, and methods of using the fragment length profiles for diagnosis and / or prognosis. The present application further provides methods, compositions, and kits for determining the stage or site of infection in a subject.

Provided is an adhesive tape for collecting skin indigenous microorganisms, the adhesive tape being capable of providing improved collection yields of skin indigenous microorganisms on a skin surface. This adhesive tape is for collecting skin indigenous microorganisms, is used to collect skin indigenous microorganism on a skin surface, and comprises a base material and an adhesive layer provided on at least a portion of a surface of the base material, wherein the adhesive layer contains an adhesive, and the adhesive contains a rubber adhesive. The adhesive tape has an adhesive strength of 10.0 N or more when a 12 mm-wide test piece thereof is pressure-bonded to a Bakelite plate by one reciprocation of a 2 kg roller and then measured for adhesive strength at a pulling speed of 300 mm / min and a pulling angle of 90° according to JIS Z 0237: 2009, and the adhesive tape has a peel strength of 0.25 N or more when a 12 mm-wide test piece thereof is measured using a silicone-treated fine paper sheet as a release sheet and measured for peel strength at a pulling speed of 300 mm / min and a pulling angle of 180° according to JIS Z 0237: 2009.