59 results about "Cancer related genes" patented technology

This invention is in the field of cancer-related genes. Specifically it relates to methods for detecting cancer or the likelihood of developing cancer based on the presence or absence of the SEM A4D gene or proteins encoded by this gene. The invention also provides methods and molecules for upregulating or downregulating the SEMA4D gene.

This invention is related to a method for the detection of early or pre-cancer using DNA isolated from blood and body fluids. This invention provides an improved methylation-based PCR assay, a panel of methylated-based cancer-related gene markers for the detection of general cancer and a panel of unmethylation-based tissue- or cell-specific gene markers for discriminating different type of cancer detected from blood samples. This method couples a sequential cancer-related gene marker detection and tissue or cell-specific gene marker assay and is particularly useful as a simultaneous screening test for following type of cancer: lung, breast, ovarian, colon, stomach, prostatic, pancreatic and liver cancer.

The invention discloses an application of a group of gastric cancer related genes. According to the invention, prediction scores are calculated to assess clinical prognosis of gastric cancers and related applications of the clinical prognosis of the gastric cancers based on a group of 53 prognostic related genes in the gastric cancers and a detection result of the expression level of the related genes in a clinical sample. The system can be used for helping gastric cancer patients in therapeutic choices of and prediction of responses to therapeutic intervention to judge whether the patients benefit from chemical and targeted therapies or not, so as to avoid excessive use of drugs and lower medical costs, and finally reach the purposes of precision or personalized medicine. According to the system and different detection technology platforms, corresponding kits for measuring expression of the 53 genes are designed and developed.

Provided herein are methods for assessing cancer, comprising analysis of sequence data from a set of cancer-related genes in a tumor sample from a subject, followed by monitoring of a subset of the set in circulating tumor-associated DNA in a fluid sample from the subject. Also provided are kits and systems for practicing any of them methods of the invention.

The present invention addresses the problem of providing malignant stem cells that can be grown in vitro and are useful in cancer therapy research and drug discovery research for cancer therapy, a method for producing same, cancer cells induced from the cells, and use for the cells. Provided are induced malignant stem cells that can be grown in vitro, the induced malignant stem cells being characterized in (1) having at least one type of abnormality selected from among (a) abnormal methylation (hypermethylation or hypomethylation) of a cancer suppressor gene or cancer-related gene region in the endogenous genome DNA, (b) somatic mutation of a cancer suppressor gene in the endogenous genome DNA or somatic mutation of an endogenous cancer-related gene, (c) abnormal expression (increased expression or decreased / lost expression); of an endogenous cancer gene or endogenous cancer suppressor gene, (d) abnormal expression (increased expression or decreased / lost expression) of non-coding RNA such as endogenous cancer-related micro RNA, (e) abnormal expression (increased expression or decreased / lost expression) of an endogenous cancer-related protein, (f) endogenous cancer-related metabolism abnormality (hypermetabolism or hypometabolism), or (g) abnormal endogenous cancer-related carbohydrate; and (2) expressing the POU5F1 gene, NANOG gene, SOX2 gene, and ZFP42 gene.

Disclosed are inducible cancer stem cells which are capable of in vitro self-replication and which are useful in research into cancer treatment and cancer-related drug development. Also disclosed are a production method for the above cells, cancer cells induced from the above stem cells, and a practical application of the cells. The disclosed inducible cancer stem cells which are capable of in vitro self-replication are characterised by satisfying requirements (1) and (2): (1) expressing six genes (POU5F1 gene, NANOG gene, SOX2 gene, ZFP42 gene, LIN28 gene, and TERT gene) selected from among a specified gene group; (2) (a) having an abnormality which is either the modification of an endogenous cancer suppression gene, or (b) the up-regulation of an endogenous cancer related gene.

The present invention is directed to detection and measurement of gene transcripts and their equivalent nucleic acid products in blood. Specifically provided is analysis performed on a drop of blood for detecting, diagnosing and monitoring diseases using gene-specific and / or tissue-specific primers. The present invention also describes methods by which delineation of the sequence and / or quantitation of the expression levels of disease-specific genes allows for an immediate and accurate diagnostic / prognostic test for disease or to assess the effect of a particular treatment regimen.

The invention discloses a genetic therapy breast cancer drug preparation method based on microfluidic chip, which includes that: the method adopts biological molecules as computation medium to compute the cancer-related gene expression through biochemical reaction; when the result meets the requirement, the anti-cancer drug is automatically synthesized and released in targeted manner; the anti-cancer drug is complete suicide gene; the biological molecules used as computation medium are DNA molecules and / or enzyme; the oncogene related to breast cancer includes: C-erbB-2, EGFR, c-myc, ras, int-2, bcl-2, BAG-1, BCSG-2 and survivin; the cancer suppressor gene related to breast cancer includes P53, nm23, PTEN, Rb, P16, P21, CHEK2, BRCA1 and BRCA2. The invention can synthesize and release anti-cancer drugs for breast cancer on specified conditions; and the anti-cancer drugs are complete suicide gene. The method can be combined with the nanometer technology and micromachining technology to help improve the treatment effect.

It is an objective of the present invention to provide a highly stable and reproducible method for detecting gastric cancer, by finding a novel gastric cancer-related gene and detecting the inactivation of such cancer-related gene. The present invention provides a method for detecting gastric cancer, comprising detecting malignant transformation of a gastric tissue cell by detecting the inactivation of the human VLDLR gene in the gastric tissue cell.

Objective methods for detecting and diagnosing colon cancer are described herein. In one embodiment, the diagnostic method involves determining the expression level of TOM34 that discriminates between colon cancer cells and normal cells. Finally, the present invention provides methods of screening for therapeutic agents useful in the treatment of colon cancer, methods of treating colon cancer and method for vaccinating a subject against colon cancer.

Novel nucleic acids and polypeptides encoded thereby are provided that are highly duplicated and overexpressed in squamous cell carcinomas of a variety of tissues. Antibodies specific for binding the novel polypeptides are also provided. The invention further discloses several assays for gene duplication and overexpression of the novel gene and excessive production of the novel polypeptide in a sample. These assays permit assessing copy number in a sample from a subject, and contribute to the diagnosis, prognosis and development of therapeutic strategy for a pathology such as squamous cell carcinoma in a subject.