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Rationally-designed LAGLIDADG (SEQ ID NO: 37) meganucleases and methods of making such meganucleases are provided. In addition, methods are provided for using the meganucleases to generate recombinant cells and organisms having a desired DNA sequence inserted into a limited number of loci within the genome, as well as methods of gene therapy, for treatment of pathogenic infections, and for in vitro applications in diagnostics and research.

Rationally-designed LAGLIDADG (SEQ ID NO: 37) meganucleases and methods of making such meganucleases are provided. In addition, methods are provided for using the meganucleases to generate recombinant cells and organisms having a desired DNA sequence inserted into a limited number of loci within the genome, as well as methods of gene therapy, for treatment of pathogenic infections, and for in vitro applications in diagnostics and research.

The present invention relates to improved methods for probing of specific nucleic acids using circularizable probes designed such that they report the presence of a target sequence by allowing a detectable moiety to remain bound if an only if the probe has been cyclized in a target-dependent linking reaction. The invention may be used for distinction between sequence specific variations of nucleic acids.

MK (midkine) was found to rise in the blood or urine of patients with various types of cancers at early stage. Based on this finding, a method for detecting early cancer, comprising the step of measuring MK in blood or urine was completed.

The invention discloses micro ribonucleic acids (microRNA, miRNA) carried by cell microparticles (Microparticle, MP), a method for preparing the same, and application thereof in the technical field of biotechnological pharmacy. The invention provides a combination of the micro ribonucleic acids for evaluating the physiological and / or pathological states of a participant, and the combination contains all the micro ribonucleic acids which exist stably in serum / plasma particles of the participant and are detectable. At the same time, the invention provides an experimental method for preparing the cell microparticles containing specific micro ribonucleic acids and using the cell microparticles to perform gene-level regulation and control as well as modification on other cells and tissues. The combination and the method can be used for detecting and treating various diseases, including the aspects of the diagnosis and the differential diagnosis of various tumors, various acute and chronic infectious diseases and other acute and chronic diseases, the prediction and the curative effect evaluation of the occurrences of disease complications and the recurrences of malignant diseases, as well as the active ingredient screening, the efficacy evaluation and the judicial authentication of drugs, the detection of prohibited drugs and the like; besides, the combination and the method have the advantages of wide detection pedigree, high sensitivity, low detection cost, convenient available material, easy storage of samples and the like.

Engineered transcriptional activator-like effectors (TALEs) are versatile tools for genome manipulation with applications in research and clinical contexts. One current drawback of TALEs is their tendency to bind and cleave off-target sequence, which hampers their clinical application and renders applications requiring high-fidelity binding unfeasible. This disclosure provides engineered TALE domains and TALEs comprising such engineered domains, e.g., TALE nucleases (TALENs), TALE transcriptional activators, TALE transcriptional repressors, and TALE epigenetic modification enzymes, with improved specificity and methods for generating and using such TALEs.

The present invention related to fluoroalkoxy (“—OCF3”) nucleosides, nucleotides, and polynucleotides comprising fluoroalkoxy nucleotides. The present invention also relates to methods of synthesizing fluoroalkoxy nucleosides, nucleotides, and polynucleotides comprising fluoroalkoxy nucleotides. The present invention also relates to compounds, compositions, and methods for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of traits, diseases and conditions that respond to the modulation of gene expression and / or activity. The invention also relates to fluoroalkoxy modified nucleic acid molecules, such as ribozymes, antisense, aptamers, decoys, triplex forming oligonucleotides (TFO), immune stimulatory oligonucleotides (ISO), immune modulatory oligonucleotides (IMO), and small nucleic acid molecules, including short interfering nucleic acid (siNA), short interfering RNA (siRNA), double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), micro-RNA (miRNA), and short hairpin RNA (shRNA) molecules capable of mediating RNA interference (RNAi) against polynucloetide targets. Such small nucleic acid molecules are useful, for example, in providing compositions to treat, prevent, inhibit, or reduce diseases, traits, or conditions in a subject or organism.

Methods for quantitatively measuring the amount of an analyte of interest in a fluid sample, and kits useful in the methods, are disclosed. The methods involve providing a solid phase apparatus comprising a membrane having an application point, a sample capture zone, and a control capture zone, where the sample capture region is between the contact region and the control capture zone; and providing a sample collection apparatus comprising a population of analyte binding particles or a population of analyte coated particles. In the assays, a fluid sample is introduced into the sample collection apparatus, and the resultant mixture is applied to the application point of the membrane. The fluid allows transport components of the assay by capillary action to and through the sample capture zone and subsequently to and through the control capture zone. The amount of analyte in the fluid sample is related (e.g., either directly or inversely) to a corrected particle amount, which can be determined, for example, as a ratio of the amount of particles in the sample capture zone and the amount of particles in the control capture zone.

A system is provided that integrates of records of clinical laboratory services into the assessment and optimization of patient health care and, in particular, regulation of the use of pharmaceuticals. Laboratory test result records are used in conjunction with other health care benefits records to monitor regulation of use of pharmaceuticals by patients. The incorporation of laboratory tests and results into such a utilization system allows improvement in the management of a patient's therapy based on a more precise picture of the patient's level of illness as revealed by the laboratory test results. The system of the present invention also allows optimization of the selection of laboratory tests to be performed, and also provides an outcome assessment of the risk of hospitalization due to pharmaceutical treatments resulting in physician intervention, leading to a change in physician prescribing behavior and, accordingly, a decrease in drug induced hospitalizations and improved quality of patient care and savings of health care costs.

The invention provides a pancreatic cancer marker, and a detection method, a kit and a biochip thereof. The pancreatic cancer marker provided by the invention contains 36 kinds of micro ribonucleic acids which stably exist in the serum / plasma of a person receiving the test and can be detected. The invention also provides a kit and a biochip of tools or elements for detecting the pancreatic cancer marker. The combination, the method, the kit and the biochip provided by the invention can be used for auxiliary diagnosis and differential diagnosis of pancreatic cancers, predication of occurrence and recrudescence of disease complications, evaluation of the curative effect, screening of active ingredients of medicaments, evaluation of pesticide effectiveness and the like, and has the advantages of wide detection range, high sensitivity, low detection cost, readily available raw materials, easy storage of samples and the like; and the method is widely applied to work related to the general survey of pancreatic cancers, improves the specificity and sensitivity which are low in the single marker due to individual difference, obviously increases clinical detection rate of pancreatic cancers and becomes an effective method for early diagnosis of pancreatic cancers.

The invention relates to a marker for detecting colon and rectum cancer by utilizing 86 specific ribonucleic acids stably existing in the serum / plasma of a human body, as well as a method, a relevant kit and a biological chip for detecting the marker. The method can be used in the aspects of diagnosing and differentially diagnosing the colon and rectum cancer and predicting the generation and the recurrence of the complications of diseases, evaluating the curative effect, screening the active ingredients in drugs, evaluating the drug effect and the like, and has the advantages of wide detection pedigree, high sensitivity and low detection cost, material is convenient for obtainment, samples are easy to store and the like. The method can be widely used for generally surveying the colon and rectum cancer and relevant work and improving low specificity and low sensitivity which are brought by the individual difference difficultly and are difficult to overcome by the single marker, thereby obviously enhancing the clinical detection rate of the colon and rectum cancer and becoming an effective means for early diagnosing the colon and rectum cancer.

The invention relates to the inhibition of DNA methyltransferase isoforms DNMT1 and DNMT3b2. The invention provides compounds and methods for inhibiting DNMT1 and DNMT3b2.

The present invention provides for a method for treating a disease condition associated with PI3-kinase α and / or mTOR in a subject. In another aspect, the invention provides for a method for treating a disease condition associated with PI3-kinase α and / or mTOR in a subject. In yet another aspect, a method of inhibiting phosphorylation of both Akt (S473) and Akt (T308) in a cell is set forth.

A system and method for using near-infrared or short-wave infrared (SWIR) light sources for early detection and monitoring of breast cancer, as well as other kinds of cancers may detect decreases in lipid content and increases in collagen content, possibly with a shift in the collagen peak wavelengths and changes in spectral features associated with hemoglobin and water content as well. Wavelength ranges between 1000-1400 nm and 1600-1800 nm may permit relatively high penetration depths because they fall within local minima of water absorption, scattering loss decreases with increasing wavelength, and they have characteristic signatures corresponding to overtone and combination bands from chemical bonds of interest, such as hydrocarbons. Broadband light sources and detectors permit spectroscopy in transmission, reflection, and / or diffuse optical tomography. High signal-to-noise ratio may be achieved using a fiber-based super-continuum light source. Risk of pain or skin damage may be mitigated using surface cooling and focused infrared light.

A hopper having a passage through which a medicine can be passed downward is provided. A part of a lower portion of the hopper is a deformable portion having flexibility, and the deformable portion is deformable so as to open and close the passage. According to this configuration, the deformable portion that is a part of the hopper is deformed to open and close the passage. Thus, there is no portion such as an opening and closing plate on which the medicine remains, thereby preventing a gap in which the medicine remains from being formed in the hopper, and preventing the medicine from easily remaining in the hopper.

The invention relates to the retinal blood vessel segmentation technology and especially relates to a multi-characteristic fusion monitored retinal blood vessel extraction method. The method comprises steps of step 1, retinal blood vessel image pre-processing; step 2, retinal blood vessel image characteristic extraction; step 3, random forest classifier training; and step 4, retina retinal blood vessel image post-processing. The method is advantaged in that through experiment verification of a DRIVE and STARE eyeground image database, susceptibilities are respectively 0.8354 and 0.8452, accuracies are respectively 94.82% and 95.34%, compared with existing retinal blood vessel segmentation methods in the prior art, the multi-characteristic fusion monitored retinal blood vessel extraction method is integrally better, moreover, disadvantages of the other methods at adjacent blood vessel portions, blood vessel cross sections and capillaries are solved, and segmented blood vessel structures are relatively closer to gold standards and actual blood vessel dimension values.

The invention relates to a breast cancer detecting marker by utilizing 16 specific tiny ribonucleic acids steadily existing in blood serum and blood plasma of a human body as well as a detecting method, a kit and a biological chip thereof, and the detecting marker can be used in the aspects of diagnosis and differential diagnosis of breast cancer, occurrence and recurrence forecast as well as efficacy assessment of disease complications, screening and therapeutic evaluation of medicinal active ingredients and the like, and has the advantages of wide detection pedigree, high sensitivity and low detection cost, the materials are conveniently taken, the samples are easy to store and the like. The method can be widely used in related work such as breast cancer census, the defects of low specificity and low sensitivity caused by insuperable individual difference of a single marker can be improved and the clinical detectable rate of the breast cancer is notably improved, and is an effective mean of early breast cancer diagnosis.

The present invention provides a preparation method of an uniform-size nanoparticle fluorescent microsphere. The density of fluorescent nanoparticle colloidal aqueous solution of the microsphere is adjusted to the micro-mol level so as to obtain the colloidal solution evenly scattered in the aqueous solution; the evenly scattered colloidal solution in the aqueous solution is injected into oil-phase solvent through capillary at the speed of 0.5 to 1.25 percent Vs / min so as to form droplets and Vs is the volume of the oil-phase solvent; the oil-phase solvent adopts bi- or multi-mixture with the solubility between 2 to 10 percent and the density equal to the density of water; containers and reflux pipes adopt the hydrophobic material; the water in droplets is absorbed by the oil phase and the nanoparticles form a dense sphere; an absorbent continuously absorbs the water dissolved in the oil phase, so that the water content in the oil phase is far lower than the saturation; the nanoparticle polymer with the size from dozens of nano to hundreds of nano, the spherical height higher than 5 percent and the size error less than 10 percent is obtained through regulating the density of the quantum pot colloidal solution and the velocity of the reflux pipe.

The invention discloses a method for detecting DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) glycosylase activity on basis of single quantum dot level.In detection, DNA glycosylase hOGG1 specifically recognizes and excises damaged guanine to leave an abasic site, apurinic endonuclease-1 further excises the abasic site to leave a nucleotide gap, and DNA polymerase beta polymerizes Cy5-dGTP at the gap to generate a double-tagging double-strand nucleotide substrate; by specific reaction between biotin and streptavidin, the DNA substrate is combined to the surface, covered with the streptavidin, of quantum dots to form a QD-DNA-Cy5 compound; due to reduction of spatial distance, fluorescence resonance energy transfer occurs between the quantum dots and Cy5, and Cy5 fluorescence signals can be observed in the unimolecular level.The method has the advantages of simplicity, quickness and sensitivity, and the lower limit of detection can reach 1.8*10<-6>U / microliter.

The invention discloses a method for identifying micro ribonucleic acid in the blood serum of colon carcinoma patients through a Solexa technique, belongs to the technical field of biological medicine, and particularly relates to the Solexa technique that researches on the micro ribonucleic acid expression in the blood serum and the application of the Solexa technique in colon carcinoma diagnosis. The method for identifying the micro ribonucleic acid in the blood serum of colon carcinoma patients comprises measuring an expression profiling of the micro ribonucleic acid in the blood serum of a colon carcinoma subject by applying the Solexa sequencing method. The Solexa sequencing method has the advantages of wide measuring pedigree, high sensitivity, convenient materials obtaining and easy sample storing, etc., and can be widely used for relevant tasks such as disease census measuring, which can improve low specificity and low sensitivity that are caused by individual difference and are difficult to be overcome by single markers, and remarkably improve the clinical relevance ratio of diseases, and is an effective method for disease diagnosis in early stages.

Rationally-designed LAGLIDADG meganucleases and methods of making such meganucleases are provided. In addition, methods are provided for using the meganucleases to generate recombinant cells and organisms having a desired DNA sequence inserted into a limited number of loci within the genome, as well as methods of gene therapy, for treatment of pathogenic infections, and for in vitro applications in diagnostics and research.

The present invention provides a method for highly expressing a recombinant FAD-GDH protein derived from filamentous fungi, protein obtained by the method, and a regent for measuring glucose using the protein. According to the invention, the FAD-GDH can be highly expressed by altering DNA sequence coding for a signal peptide of FAD-GDH gene isolated from Aspergillus oryzae. FAD-GDH can be stably produced by adjusting pH of 7.1 to 7.3 during culture production.

A highly conserved, immunologically accessible antigen at the surface of Neisseria meningitidis organisms. Immunotherapeutic, prophylactic and diagnostic compositions and methods useful in the treatment, prevention an diagnosis of Neisseria meningitidis diseases. A proteinase K resistant Neisseria meningitidis surface protein having an apparent molecular weight of 22 kDa, the corresponding nucleotide and derived amino acid sequences (SEQ ID NO: 1, NO:3, NO:5 and NO:7: SEQ ID NO: 2, NO:4, NO:6, and NO:8), recombinant DNA methods for the production of the Neisseria meningitidis 22 kDA surface protein, and antibodies that bind to the Neisseria meningitidis 22 kDA surface protein.

Methods for quantitatively measuring the amount of an analyte of interest in a fluid sample, and kits useful in the methods, are disclosed. The methods involve providing a solid phase apparatus comprising a membrane having an application point, a sample capture zone, and a control capture zone, where the sample capture region is between the application point and the control capture zone; and providing a sample collection apparatus comprising a population of analyte binding particles or a population of analyte coated particles. In the assays, a fluid sample is introduced into the sample collection apparatus, and the resultant mixture is applied to the application point of the membrane. The fluid allows transport components of the assay by capillary action to and through the sample capture zone and subsequently to and through the control capture zone. The amount of analyte in the fluid sample is related (e.g., either directly or inversely) to a corrected particle amount, which can be determined, for example, as a ratio of the amount of particles in the sample capture zone and the amount of particles in the control capture zone.

A surface acoustic wave (SAW) performs a rapid, label-free detection of biological species. Biosensing and detection of multiple analytes multiplexed by an array of sensing lanes is configured to enable bio-amplification using engineered DNA encoded libraries as the probe through a phage display procedure to enhance specificity, capture statistics for the detection, screening and analyzing of the analyte in vitro. A biochemical formulation minimizes the limit of detection (LOD) at a threshold magnitude on the order of a femtomolar concentration. Additional enhancement of the apparatus is achieved by use of an analog front end to amplify biochemical events.

The invention relates to a gastric cancer detection marker, and a detecting method thereof, a related kit and a biochip. The gastric cancer detection marker comprises 21 specific micro RNAs stable in human serum / plasma. The marker which is broad in detection spectrum, high in sensitivity, low in detection cost, easy to be got and stored can be used for diagnosing and differentially diagnosing the gastric cancer, predicating occurrence and reoccurrence of diseases and conditions, evaluating therapeutic efficiency and efficacy and screening active pharmaceutical ingredients and the like. The method can be widely applied to cancer survey and related work, improves low specificity and low sensitivity caused by individual difference which is difficult for a single marker to overcome, and remarkably improves the clinical detection rate of the gastric cancer. Therefore, the method is an effective means to diagnose early breast cancer.

Rationally-designed LAGLIDADG meganucleases and methods of making such meganucleases are provided. In addition, methods are provided for using the meganucleases to generate recombinant cells and organisms having a desired DNA sequence inserted into a limited number of loci within the genome, as well as methods of gene therapy, for treatment of pathogenic infections, and for in vitro applications in diagnostics and research.

The invention concerns a novel parallel method for detecting biological material, in particular peptides or proteins, in a sample at least one probe for use in the said method, a plurality, or library, of said probes for use in said method, and a kit of parts for carrying out said method wherein said probe comprises a binding partner that is specific for said peptide or protein and, attached thereto, an oligonucleotide comprising: i) a first sequence that is complementary to a forward primer sequence for amplification of said oligonucleotide; ii) a second sequence that is complementary to a reverse primer sequence for amplification of said oligonucleotide; and iii) positioned between said first and second sequences an identification sequence of nucleotides or barcode.