1037 results about "Somatic cell" patented technology

The invention relates to an organ-like core-shell microsphere as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The preparation method comprises the steps that 1, raw materials are prepared, specifically, shell raw materials and inner core raw materials are prepared, the shell raw materials comprise a photoinitiator and methacrylated hyaluronic acid (HAMA), and the inner core raw materials comprise organoid precursor cell suspension and matrigel; 2) molding: extruding the dispersion phase of the shell raw material wrapping the core raw material to a continuous phase by using a micro-fluidic chip and a high-precision injection pump, cutting the dispersion phase into liquid drops by the continuous phase, and performing illumination curing on the liquid drops to form core-shell microspheres; and (3) incubating, namely culturing the core-shell microspheres in a culture medium, so that the organoid precursor cells in the inner core are developed into organoids. According to the preparation method, rapid forming and curing of the organ-like precursor cells carried by the matrigel are achieved, so that the time of the organ-like precursor cells staying in the oil phase is shortened, the cells can obtain oxygen and nutrient substances, and the cell activity is improved.

Disclosed are compositions and methods for preventing graft versus host disease (GVHD) in subjects receiving donor cells. In particular, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) polypeptides are disclosed that can be used with adoptive cell transfer suppress alloreactive donor cells. Also disclosed are immune effector cells, such as T cells or Natural Killer (NK) cells, that are engineered to express these CARs. Therefore, also disclosed are methods of suppressing alloreactive donor cells in a subject receiving transplant donor cells that involves adoptive transfer of the disclosed immune effector cells engineered to express the disclosed CARs.

The invention provides a cell development process dynamic modeling method and device based on time sequence single cell transcriptome data and a medium, and relates to the crossing field of bioinformatics and computational biology. The method comprises the following steps: constructing a Shenchang differential equation learning framework; adjusting parameters of the single cell development state change model based on the Shenxuan differential equation learning framework so as to construct a population cell development state change model; obtaining a cell specific gene regulation network and a population cell gene regulation network based on the population cell development state change model so as to predict occurrence opportunity of cell lineage differentiation and a molecular decision mechanism of cell differentiation; therefore, the problems of incomplete modeling mechanism, insufficient noise processing and lack of energy principle in the existing cell development process are solved.

Provided herein are engineered immune cells and populations thereof for administration to patients to treat cancer (e.g., solid tumors or liquid tumors) and other conditions. The cells are engineered to functionally express a reduced level of one or more of RFX5, NLRC5, TAP2, β2m, TRAC, RFXAP, CIITA and RFXANK. The cells optionally are further engineered to express one or more than one additional protein such as an antigen binding protein (e.g., a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) or T cell receptor) to target tumor cells or other damaged cells in the patient and / or to express other genes at a reduced level. Also provided are methods of making and using the engineered cells, compositions and kits comprising them, and methods of treating by administering the cells and the compositions.

The invention provides an AbAIL5 gene and application of the AbAIL5 gene in improvement of genetic transformation efficiency of amorphophallus bulbifer, and belongs to the technical field of biology. The invention provides an AbAIL5 gene. The nucleotide sequence of the AbAIL5 gene is shown as SEQ ID NO: 1. Genetic transformation is performed on the amorphophallus bulbifer somatic embryo by constructing an overexpression vector of the AbAIL5 gene, so that the genetic transformation efficiency of the amorphophallus bulbifer callus can be improved, and candidate genes are provided for application of a large-scale breeding technology and a genetic transformation technology of the amorphophallus bulbifer callus in good varieties.

An antigen peptide is provided specifically for treating individuals suffering from ovarian cancer, preferably based on BRCA1 gene c. 5470_5477del8 mutation. It is selected from amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NO. 1 to SEQ ID NO. 6, or derived by substitution, deletion and / or addition of at least one amino acid. The neoantigen polypeptides of the present disclosure can significantly activate T lymphocytes specific to the BRCA1 gene c. 5470_5477del8 mutation in vitro, stimulating the release of the cytokine IFN-y, indicating notable immunogenicity. This enhances T lymphocytes' ability to target and kill cancer cells from ovarian cancer patients carrying the BRCA1 gene c. 5470_5477del8 mutation. Additionally, the antigen peptide can activate and expand human T lymphocytes specific to the BRCA1 gene c. 5470_5477del8 mutation in vitro for adoptive cell therapy. The antigen peptide of the present disclosure addresses the gap in personalized antigen peptide therapies for ovarian cancer patients with BRCAl-c. 5470_5477del8 somatic mutations.

The present disclosure relates to cellular compositions that are modified to introduce a nucleic acid or vector expressing the same. Such compositions may be used to deliver nucleic acid to a target cell and treat disease such as cancer.

The invention relates to the field of image processors and biological medicines, and discloses an NK cell activity rapid detection method based on image processing. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring an unmarked time sequence phase image sequence of an NK cell and target cell co-culture system; performing cell instance segmentation to track individual cells; extracting a morphological dynamic characteristic parameter set of the target cell, wherein the morphological dynamic characteristic parameter set comprises a volume change rate, a phase gradient entropy, a cytoplasm phase fluctuation frequency and a nuclear region phase mean value; inputting the parameters into a pre-trained death state discrimination model, and outputting a death probability; and calculating a killing efficiency index based on the death probability evolution curve, and judging the activity level of the NK cells. The system comprises a phase image acquisition unit, a cell segmentation unit, a feature extraction unit, a death judgment unit and an activity judgment unit. Through unmarked imaging and deep learning fusion analysis, high-precision, real-time, quantitative and ultra-early NK cell activity evaluation is realized, and the method is suitable for clinical instant inspection and immunotherapy monitoring.

The invention discloses a composite microecological preparation as well as a preparation method and application thereof. The compound microecological preparation disclosed by the invention comprises lactobacillus casei, lactobacillus plantarum and saccharomyces cerevisiae. The application effect of the composite microecological preparation in cow breeding is remarkable, the optimal addition amount of the composite microecological preparation is 100 mL / cow / day, the production performance of lactating cows can be improved, the milk yield is improved by 3.30 kg / cow / day, the milk yield of 4% standard milk is improved by 3.78 kg / cow / day, the total protein is improved by 15.9%, the albumin is improved by 14.7%, the globulin is improved by 16.5%, and the somatic cell number is reduced by 52.6%; and pollutant emission can be reduced, including 37.2% of ammonia emission reduction and 28.7% of carbon dioxide emission reduction.

The disclosure provides a method for treating a subject afflicted with a tumor derived from a small cell lung cancer (SCLC) having a high tumor mutational burden (TMB) status comprising administering to the subject a monotherapy comprising an anti-PD-1 antibody or a combination therapy comprising an anti-PD-1 antibody and an anti-CTLA-4 antibody. The present disclosure also provides a method for identifying a subject suitable for treatment with an anti-PD-1 antibody or a combination therapy comprising an anti-PD-1 antibody and an anti-CTLA-4 antibody comprising measuring a TMB status of a biological sample of the subject. A high TMB status identifies the patient as suitable for treatment with an anti-PD-1 antibody or antigen-binding portion thereof. The TMB status can be determined by sequencing nucleic acids in the tumor and identifying a genomic alteration, e.g., a somatic nonsynonymous mutation, in the sequenced nucleic acids.

The present disclosure relates generally to methods of inhibiting a tripartite VAP-A, ORP3 and Rab7 (VOR) protein complex in multicellular organisms, to methods of identifying agents which inhibit such complex and to the medical use of those agents. Inhibition of the VOR complex causes interference with at least one mechanism of intercellular communication, wherein the intercellular communication is mediated by receptor-ligand interaction and / or EVs, and viral infection involving the transport of endocytosed biomaterials to the nucleus of recipient cells.

The present invention encompasses compositions and methods to allow one to deliver and express multiple genes under the control of multiple gene regulatory components in a recipient cell via a synthetic chromosome. The engineering of synthetic chromosomes to contain multiple gene control units permits the construction of complex biological circuits.

Several embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods and compositions for enhanced expansion of NK cells in culture, through the repeated co-culturing of NK cells with feeder cells and the selective use of stimulatory interleukins. In several embodiments, the methods utilize one or more soluble interleukins as culture media supplements at one or more time points during expansion of the NK cell, or other immune cell, which results in a highly expanded and highly cytotoxic population of cells, for use in, for example allogeneic cellular immunotherapy.

The invention discloses a conjugational transfer-assisted orthogonal targeted mutation evolution system, which comprises a donor strain and a receptor strain, a donor strain intracellular muter performs targeted mutation on a target sequence to obtain a mutation sequence, a non-self-transferable conjugational transfer functional plasmid is introduced into the donor strain, and a non-self-transferable conjugational transfer functional plasmid is introduced into the receptor strain. The mutant sequence is unidirectionally and horizontally transferred from a donor strain cell to a receptor strain cell, and the complete orthogonality of the mutants in the initial donor strain and the mutant sequence in the receptor strain is realized through the orthogonality between the donor strain and the receptor strain. The results of a sacB-sucrose reverse screening experiment show that the mutation frequency of an ortho-MutaT7 system reaches 2.96 * 10 <-2 > at 96 hours, which is 1840.9 times of the natural mutation frequency of the sacB in donor cells, and the ortho-MutaT7 system generates mutation of 12 basic group change types in a target sequence. The Ortho-MutaT7 system developed by the invention realizes mutation diversity and also has orthogonality, leakage mutation and off-target mutation of mutants in host cells are fully avoided, and a direct relationship between a mutation sequence and a phenotype is established.

The invention discloses a chicken myoblast and chicken fat precursor cell co-culture synchronous differentiation method and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of animal cell co-culture and differentiation. The method comprises the following steps: respectively carrying out in-vitro multiplication culture on chicken myoblasts and chicken fat precursor cells, carrying out mixed co-culture, inducing for at most two days by adopting horse serum with the volume percent of 0.5-2%, carrying out pre-differentiation, and continuously carrying out induced differentiation culture for at most one day by using an induced adipogenesis culture medium. According to the synchronous differentiation method for co-culture of the chicken myoblasts and the chicken fat precursor cells, a cell co-culture system is constructed, time sequence induced differentiation is achieved, and a final product with fat droplets distributed in the gaps of muscle bundles (the average distance is 20-50 microns) and capable of recarving natural chicken intermuscular fat textures is obtained. According to the method, the differentiation period is shortened to be within 3 days from 21 days (the efficiency is improved by 600%); the induction cost is reduced by 42.7%; the final product breaks through the sensory acceptance barrier through bionic structure recarving.

Disclosed in the present invention is an siRNA for inhibiting the expression of a urate transporter 1 (URAT1) gene in human cells. In the present invention, a plurality of siRNAs capable of inhibiting URAT1 expression are obtained by screening, and on this basis, appropriate modifications are performed to obtain sequences with improved target silencing ability. Drugs with the siRNAs as active ingredients are expected to be clinically applicable in the prevention and treatment of diseases related to the URAT1 target, such as gout, hyperuricemia, gouty arthritis and renal calculi.

The invention relates to the field of gene engineering, in particular to Os HSL mutants and coding genes, expression vectors, transgenic cells, compositions and application thereof, the mutants are Os HSL1 enzyme and / or Os HSL2 enzyme mutants, the amino acid sequence of the Os HSL1 enzyme is as shown in SEQ ID NO.1, and the amino acid sequence of the Os HSL2 enzyme is as shown in SEQ ID NO.2. The invention further relates to an application of the Os HSL mutants and the coding genes, the expression vectors, the transgenic cells and the compositions. The invention relates to a gene, a protein, a carrier, a cell and a composition which endow plants with a detoxification effect on an HPPD inhibitor and application of the gene, the protein, the carrier, the cell and the composition to plant improvement, so that the plants are endowed with resistance to the HPPD inhibitor.

The invention discloses a medicine composition for inducing fibroblasts to be reprogrammed into pericyte-like cells (PCLCs) through a chemical small molecule combination, and the medicine composition is used for treating sepsis. According to the invention, a chemical reprogramming strategy without genetic modification is adopted, an endogenous signal channel is activated through a time sequence, and fibroblasts from somatic cells are efficiently converted into PCLCs with high expression of genes such as EMILIN3, LAMC3, GDF10, AHR, CD109, AHR, NQO1, QPRT and the like. When applied to treatment of sepsis, the medicine composition can improve pathological symptoms and reduce death rate by synergistically exerting anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidation, immune regulation and tissue barrier protection effects. The invention provides a novel safe treatment strategy based on non-genetically modified cells for sepsis.

The invention relates to the technical field of hyperbaric oxygen physiotherapy cabins, in particular to a terahertz wave micro hyperbaric oxygen physiotherapy cabin which comprises a cabin body, a door opening is formed in one face of the cabin body, a cabin top is installed at the top of the cabin body, and a door plate is hinged to the interior of the door opening through a hinge; the deep sea volcanic energy stone treatment device comprises a cabin, two groups of bed bodies are arranged in the cabin, the two groups of bed bodies are symmetrically mounted in the cabin, each bed body is of a hollow structure, and a plurality of terahertz wave generation modules are uniformly laid on the upper surface of each bed body through a support. The pelelith-based passive terahertz releaser formed after the pelelith-based passive terahertz releaser is combined with the ceramic matrix can continuously release terahertz waves with the frequency band of 0.1-12 THz, the vibration frequency is consistent with that of human cells, and the terahertz waves with the frequency band can repair biological enzyme and nucleic acid structure deformation caused by free radical attack and age increase through the biological resonance effect, so that the pelelith-based passive terahertz releaser can be used for repairing biological enzyme and nucleic acid structure deformation caused by free radical attack and age increase. The metabolic function is recovered from the cell molecule level, and the defect that a traditional oxygen cabin can only supply oxygen on the surface layer and cannot be deeply repaired is overcome.

The invention discloses a cell lineage tracking system based on synNotch and CRISPR / Cas9 bar code technology and application thereof, the cell lineage tracking system comprises a system mGFP ligand vector for constructing Sender ligand cells and a system for constructing Receiver recipient cells, and the system comprises a synNotch receptor-rtTA fusion vector, a TetO-Cas9 expression vector, a gRNA expression vector and a Target vector library containing a Barcode sequence. A synNotch system and a CRISPR / Cas9 gene editing technology are combined with a bar code strategy, a unique bar code is generated, the contact sequence between cells is recorded, the method is compatible with a single-cell sequencing technology, transcription information of the cells is provided, long-term tracking of the contact history between the cells is achieved, the method can be used for tracking interaction and functions between the cells in a tumor microenvironment, and the application prospect is wide. Through long-term tracking and functional analysis of interaction between macrophages, especially macrophages and tumor cells, the accuracy of interaction analysis is remarkably improved, and a more accurate target spot is provided for targeted therapy.

Disclosed are in vitro methods for the differentiation of precursor cells into a neural crest cell (NCC) primed to a neurogenic lineage. The methods may include, for example, the steps of activating a Hedgehog signaling pathway (“HH signaling pathway”) in a precursor cell, wherein the precursor cell may be contacted with a neural crest cell induction medium for differentiation of the precursor cell into a neural crest cell. Compositions for carrying out the disclosed methods are also disclosed.

The invention belongs to the field of medicine, and discloses application of POCM-NP-coated A939572 in preparation of a medicine for treating osteoporosis, the POCM-NP-coated A939572 comprises osteoclast precursor cell membrane vesicles and NP-coated A939572 loaded on the osteoclast precursor cell membrane vesicles, and the NP-coated A939572 is PLGA (poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid)) nanoparticles entrapped with the NP-coated A939572. The POCM-NP-coated A939572 obtained by loading the nanoparticles loaded with the A939572 small molecule medicine into the osteoclast precursor cell membrane vesicles has the effect of relieving the osteoporosis, can inhibit osteoclast differentiation and can be used for preventing, treating and relieving the osteoporosis.

The invention relates to a new technology for promoting generation of hematopoietic precursor cells from human pluripotent stem cells. Specifically, the present invention relates to a method for preparing hematopoietic precursor cells comprising reducing the expression level of YTHDF2 gene in pluripotent stem cells or reducing the activity of YTHDF2 protein of pluripotent stem cells. On the other hand, the invention also relates to a kit for preparing the hematopoietic precursor cell, and the kit comprises a reagent for reducing the expression level of the YTHDF2 gene or a reagent for reducing the activity of the YTHDF2 protein.

Compounds, compositions, and methods for use in inhibiting the E3 enzyme Cbl-b in the ubiquitin proteasome pathway are disclosed. The compounds, compositions, and methods can be used to modulate the immune system, to treat diseases amenable to immune system modulation, and for treatment of cells in vivo, in vitro, or ex vivo. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising a Cbl-b inhibitor and a cancer vaccine, as well as methods for treating cancer using a Cbl-b inhibitor and a cancer vaccine; and pharmaceutical compositions comprising a Cbl-b inhibitor and an oncolytic virus, as well as methods for treating cancer using a Cbl-b inhibitor and an oncolytic virus.

The invention discloses an NK cell culture solution and an NK cell culture. The culture solution comprises a cell activation culture solution and a cell amplification culture solution, the cell activation culture solution comprises a basic culture medium, and the basic culture medium contains autologous plasma with the final concentration of 1-10%, IL-2 with the final concentration of 50-1000U / mL, IL-15 with the final concentration of 1-15ng / mL, OK432 with the final concentration of 0.1-1ug / mL and ginseng exosome with the final concentration of 1-10ug / mL; the cell amplification culture solution comprises a basic culture medium, and the basic culture medium contains IL-2 with the final concentration of 100-2000U / mL. The ginseng exosome component in the cell culture fluid can promote NK cell proliferation and remarkably improve the immune killing function of the NK cells, and the ginseng exosome serving as an activating factor can effectively improve the activity of the NK cells and enhance the immune effect of the NK cells.

The invention relates to the technical field of aquatic animal cell culture, in particular to a rapid enrichment and separation method for gonad somatic cells of plectropomus leopardus. Comprising the following steps: selecting healthy plectropomus leopardus for anesthesia; the method comprises the following steps: taking gonad tissues, performing sterile treatment, cutting, centrifugal washing and filtering, inoculating the gonad tissues into a culture medium for primary culture to obtain gonad cells emigrated from tissue blocks, performing trypsin-EDTA digestion and centrifugal washing, and treating the gonad cells with 1 * PBS containing polysorbate; after closing, antibody incubation and washing, the marking effect is verified through a fluorescence microscope, and specific enrichment of gonad somatic cells is achieved; and filtering and purifying the enriched fluorescence-labeled cells, placing the cells under a fluorescence microscope, accurately picking fluorescence-positive cells under a fluorescence visual field, transferring the fluorescence-positive cells into a culture dish containing a complete medium, inoculating the separated fluorescence-positive cells into the optimized complete medium, and carrying out purification culture, so that the cells grow in a wall-attached manner and stable passage is realized.

The present disclosure provides systems and methods to detect somatic or germline variants by providing a predetermined genomic DNA (gDNA) to an assay mixture, and capturing a sample of a subject's genetic information using a DNA sequencer and detecting genetic variants from the genetic information. A mutation may then be classified as being from a germline source if gDNA derived molecules have lengths inconsistent with those expected from cell-free DNA (cfDNA) derived molecules.

The invention discloses a rapid biological cell classification imaging method and system based on a quantum correlation diffraction optical neural network, and the method comprises the steps: regulating and controlling a signal photon to an orbital angular momentum state optimized by a neural network based on a time-energy correlation two-photon pair generated in a spontaneous parametric down-conversion process, and irradiating a biological cell sample; a diffractive optical neural network is utilized to construct a quantum state illumination diffractive optical processor, photons carrying cell complex amplitude information are mapped to different detection areas of a predefined image plane, and rapid and high-precision cell classification and recognition are realized through correlation imaging results of an enhanced charge coupled camera. The method has the signal-to-noise ratio and anti-interference capability exceeding the classic limit, can keep high-precision cell classification capability under high background noise, and is suitable for long-time monitoring of living cells under the condition of extremely low light intensity. The method has the characteristics of low energy consumption and high efficiency, and meets the requirements of green calculation and sustainable development. And the method can be used for rapidly classifying and identifying the living biological cells without marks and phototoxicity.

The invention discloses a method for cultivating triploid kelp sporophytes and identifying ploidy of induced protonema, and belongs to the field of kelp breeding. The method is based on a capillary glass needle separation technology for inducing filamentous somatic cells by kelp and a molecular biological technology for specific marking of sex of kelp gametophytes. The sex specific marker of the kelp gametophyte is used for carrying out PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) amplification and 1.5% agarose gel electrophoresis detection on the separated induction protonema single-cell cloning line, so that the genetic sex of the kelp induction protonema can be accurately identified; and the ploidy of the induced protonema of a part of varieties (lines) is directly determined from the molecular level. The method for synchronously detecting the genetic sex and ploidy of the induced protonema breaks through the bottlenecks of chromosome counting and flow cytometry operation, can be completed only through one-time PCR amplification, and is simple, convenient, rapid, short in time consumption, capable of completing detection of a plurality of samples at the same time and low in cost.

The present invention relates to a method of producing cells having the phenotype of cardiac valve cells from precursor cells of valve cells comprising (a) introducing into said precursor cells early growth response 3 (EGR3) and / or a nucleic acid sequence encoding EGR3. The present invention also relates to a valve transplant comprising cells having the phenotype of valve cells obtained or obtainable by the method of the invention. The present invention furthermore relates to cells having the phenotype of valve cells obtained or obtainable by the method of the invention, the valve transplant of the invention or a compound promoting the expression and / or the activity of early growth response 3 (EGR3) for use in treating a subject having a valve defect.