1023 results about "Cell sheet" patented technology

The present invention relates generally to methods for stimulating cells, and more particularly, to a novel method to concentrate and stimulate cells that maximizes stimulation and / or proliferation of such cells. In the various embodiments, cells are stimulated and concentrated with a surface yielding enhanced proliferation, cell signal transduction, and / or cell surface moiety aggregation. In certain aspects methods for stimulating a population of cells such as T-cells, by simultaneous concentration and cell surface moiety ligation are provided by contacting the population of cells with a surface, that has attached thereto one or more agents that ligate a cell surface moiety and applying a force that predominantly drives cell concentration and cell surface moiety ligation, thereby inducing cell stimulation, cell surface moiety aggregation, and / or receptor signaling enhancement. Also provided are methods for producing phenotypically tailored cells, including T-cells for the use in diagnostics, drug discovery, and the treatment of a variety of indications, including cancer, viral infection, and immune related disorders. Compositions of cells having specific phenotypic properties produced by these processes are further provided.

The present invention relates generally to methods for stimulating cells, and more particularly, to a novel method to concentrate and / or stimulate cells that maximizes stimulation and / or proliferation of such cells. In the various embodiments, cells are stimulated and concentrated with a surface yielding enhanced proliferation, cell signal transduction, and / or cell surface moiety aggregation. In certain aspects methods for stimulating a population of cells such as T-cells, by simultaneous concentration and cell surface moiety ligation are provided by contacting the population of cells with a surface, that has attached thereto one or more agents that ligate a cell surface moiety and applying a force that predominantly drives cell concentration and cell surface moiety ligation, thereby inducing cell stimulation, cell surface moiety aggregation, and / or receptor signaling enhancement. Also provided are methods for producing phenotypically tailored cells, including T-cells for the use in diagnostics, drug discovery, and the treatment of a variety of indications, including cancer, viral infection, and immune related disorders. Compositions of cells having specific phenotypic properties produced by these processes are further provided.

An integrated scaffold for bone tissue engineering has a tubular outer shell and a spiral scaffold made of a porous sheet. The spiral scaffold is formed such that the porous sheet defines a series of spiral coils with gaps of controlled width between the coils to provide an open geometry for enhanced cell growth. The spiral scaffold resides within the bore of the shell and is integrated with the shell to fix the geometry of the spiral scaffold. Nanofibers may be deposited on the porous sheet to enhance cell penetration into the spiral scaffold. The spiral scaffold may have alternating layers of polymer and ceramic on the porous sheet that have been built up using a layer-by-layer method. The spiral scaffold may be seeded with cells by growing a cell sheet and placing the cell sheet on the porous sheet before it is rolled.

Tissue engineering devices for use in the repair or regeneration of tissue made of support scaffolds and cell sheets.

A method for identifying and isolating cells which produce secreted proteins. This method is based upon a specific characteristic or the expression level of the secreted protein by transiently capturing the secreted protein on the surface of an individual cell, allowing selection of rare cell clones from a heterogeneous population. Also provided is the use of this method to generate cells which produce a desired level of secreted protein or secreted protein of a particular characteristic(s), and organisms which possess such cells. In particular, the method allows rapid isolation of high expression recombinant antibody-producing cell lines, or may be applied directly to rapid isolation of specific hybridomas, or to the isolation of antibody-producing transgenic animals. This method is applicable for any cell which secretes protein.

Methods and apparatus are provided for the automated analysis of images of living cells acquired by time-lapse microscopy. The new methods and apparatus can be used for the segmentation, classification and tracking of individual cells in a cell population, and for the extraction of biologically significant features from the cell images. Based upon certain extracted features, the inventive image analysis methods can characterize a cell as mitotic or interphase and / or can classify a cell into one of the following mitotic phases: prophase, metaphase, arrested metaphase, and anaphase with high accuracy.

Compositions, kits and methods are described that comprise one or more constructs, each construct comprising a ligand attached or conjugated to a polymer construct, e.g., an oligonucleotide sequence, by a linker, each ligand binding specifically to a single target located in or on the surface of a cell. The polymer construct comprises a) an Amplification Handle; b) a Barcode that specifically identifies a single ligand; c) an optional Unique Molecular Identifier that is positioned adjacent to the Barcode on its 5′ or 3′ end; and d) an Anchor for hybridizing to a complementary sequence, e.g., for generation of a double-stranded oligonucleotide. These compositions are used in methods, including high throughput methods, for detecting one or more targets or epitopes in a biological sample. These compositions are also used in a high throughput method for characterizing a cell by simultaneous detection of one or more epitopes located in or on the cell and its transcriptome.

A solar cell module back veneer material comprises a base coat layer having high adhesive strength with EVA, two layers of fluororesin-containing weather resistance coating films and an intermediate polymer basilemma between the two layers of fluororesin-containing resin weather resistance coating films, wherein at least one layer of fluororesin-containing resin weather resistance coating film hashigh light reflection performance, the base coat layer having high adhesive strength with EVA and the weather resistance coating film having high light reflection performance in the coating film arearranged at the side close to a cell sheet in an encapsulated cell module, the fluororesin-containing resin masking liquid has good coating uniformity and good adhesive force with the polymer basilemma, and contains high reflection filler component with the constituents as the follows according to parts by weight: 100 parts of fluororesin-containing resin, 3-20 parts of curing agent, 10-30 parts of high reflection filler, 0.0003-0.0001 part of catalyst, and 50-200 parts of solvent.

The inventive method allows peptides or polypeptides to be exposed on the surface of gram-negative host bacteria using specific intimin-based anchor modules. Intimins with shortened carboxy terminals have been found to be particularly suitable anchor modules for passenger domains in the exterior E. coli cell membrane. According to the method, host bacteria are transformed using vectors, on which are located a fused nucleic acid sequence consisting of a sequence segment which codes for an intimin with a shortened carboxy terminal and a nucleic acid sequence segment which codes for the passenger peptide that is to be exposed. The invention permits a particularly large number of passenger domains to be exposed on the cell surface of the bacteria, without adversely affecting the viability of the bacteria.

A cell culture method prepares first cells that are adhesion-dependent cells and monolayered or multilayered cells on a culture surface of a culture substrate, seeds second cells that are adhesion-dependent cells and are magnetized by allowing to have magnetic particles on the first cells, induces the second cells to a predetermined position on the first cells by magnetic force, and cultures the first cells and the second cells in a cell arrangement obtained by the magnetic induction. According to this cell culture method, after a cell sheet was prepared individually, cells can be multilayered without changing a temperature, peeling the monolayered sheet and laminating the monolayered sheets.

Methods for improving the specific binding ability of bispecific binding compositions are described. The bispecific binding compositions are able to target cells by a high affinity targeting domain to a target cell surface marker and a low affinity binding domain that binds specifically to a second cell surface marker, wherein the binding of each domain to its respective cell surface marker increases or decreases, as desired, the biological activity of the respective cell surface markers. The invention further provides bispecific binding agents for use in the methods, as well as uses for the agents.

By using a bed material for cell culture having a surface composed of two domains of domain A coated with a temperature-responsive polymer and domain B composed of any one or a combination of a domain coated with a polymer having high affinity with cells, a domain coated with the temperature-responsive polymer in an amount different from the amount of the temperature-responsive polymer of domain A, and a domain coated with a polymer which responds to a temperature different from the temperature to which domain A responds, a method for the co-culture of a plurality of kinds of cells which has heretofore been difficult becomes possible.

Methods and compositions are provided for delivering a polynucleotide encoding a gene of interest to a target cell using a virus. The virus envelope comprises a cell-specific binding determinant that recognizes and binds to a component on the target cell surface, leading to endocytosis of the virus. A separate fusogenic molecule is also present on the envelope and facilitates delivery of the polynucleotide across the membrane and into the cytosol of the target cell. The methods and related compositions can be used for treating patients having suffering from a wide range of conditions, including infection, such as HIV; cancers, such as non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and breast cancer; and hematological disorders, such as severe combined immunodeficiency.

Methods for improving the biological and pharmaceutical properties of bispecific binding agents are described herein where the bispecific binding agent are able to target cells by a high affinity binding domain to a first cell surface marker that does not induce a significant biological effect and a low affinity binding domain that binds specifically to a second cell surface marker, causing a significant and desired biological effect. Compositions of such bispecific binding agents, uses for them, and kits containing them are also provided.

An optical device is described that may be used as a microscope system for real-time, three-dimensional optical imaging. The device includes a miniature, fiber optic, intra-vital probe microscope that uses a dual-axes confocal architecture to allow for vertical scanning perpendicular to a surface of the sample (e.g., a tissue surface). The optical device can use off-axis illumination and collection of light to achieve sub-cellular resolution with deep tissue penetration. The optical device may be used as part of an integrated molecular imaging strategy using fluorescence-labeled peptides to detect cell surface targets that are up-regulated by the epithelium and / or endothelium of colon and breast tumors in small animal models of cancer.

The invention relates to a spread method of a polycrystalline silicon solar cell. The spread method is characterized in that the spread method comprises the following processing steps of entering a boat, warming, oxidizing, spreading, redistributing, cooling and going out the boat, wherein the spreading step comprises low temperature pre-deposition and then high temperature spreading. Reaction between a phosphorus source and a silicon wafer cannot be completed under low temperature, so that the low temperature pre-deposition is carried out on low temperature source communication at a first step of spreading, the phosphorus source cannot spread (or conduct spreading with low rate) inside a silicon wafer, the phosphorus source only accumulates on the surface of the silicon wafer, and a phosphorus film with certain thickness is formed on the surface of the silicon wafer after source communication for certain time; and the high temperature spreading is carried out on high temperature source communication at a second step, phosphorus on the surface of an original silicon wafer is reacted with the silicon wafer and spreads to the inside of the silicon wafer, and spreading rates of the center point and the periphery of the silicon wafer are same. Therefore, spreading uniformity is good, concentration distribution of impurities on the surface of the silicon wafer and inside the silicon wafer body is even, sheet resistance uniformity is improved, and final photoelectric conversion efficiency of a cell sheet is improved accordingly.

Methods for making the functionalized glycoconjugates include (a) contacting a cell with a first monosaccharide, and (b) incubating the cell under conditions whereby the cell (i) internalizes the first monosaccharide, (ii) biochemically processes the first monosaccharide into a second saccharide, (iii) conjugates the saccharide to a carrier to form a glycoconjugate, and (iv) extracellularly expresses the glycoconjugate to form an extracellular glycoconjugate comprising a selectively reactive functional group. Methods for forming products at a cell further comprise contacting the functional group of the extracellularly expressed glycoconjugate with an agent which selectively reacts with the functional group to form a product. Subject compositions include cyto-compatible monosaccharides comprising a nitrogen or ether linked functional group selectively reactive at a cell surface and compositions and cells comprising such saccharides.

The present disclosure is directed, in some embodiments, to methods and compositions of comprising a cell having a non-internalizing receptor, and a nanoparticle surface-modified with a ligand that binds to the non-internalizing receptor.

The cell selection apparatus includes: a cell selection vessel which has a pair of electrodes and a sheet-like insulating material having a plurality of micropores, with a recognition molecule bindable to the specific substance being disposed on a bottom face of the micropore; and a power supply, wherein the power supply includes a cell-immobilization power supply and a cell-taking power supply. The cell selection method uses the cell selection apparatus, including; introducing cells into a cell selection area; immobilizing these cells in the micropores; effecting a binding reaction between the specific substance and the recognition molecule; thereafter, taking out a cell of which the specific substance is not or is weakly bound to the recognition molecule, from the micropore; otherwise alternatively, leaving a cell of which the specific substance on the surface of the cell is strongly bound to the recognition molecule, behind in the micropore.

The invention relates to a solder strip of a solar module. V-shaped groove are formed on upper and lower surfaces of the solder strip, or a V-shaped groove is only formed on the soldered surface of the solder strip and a cell sheet; and the V-shaped groove is vertical to the length direction of the solder strip. The solder strip is 0.15-0.5 mm in thickness; the angle beta of the V-shaped groove is 20-75 degrees; and the vertical distance from the peak of the V-shaped groove on the upper surface to the peak of the V-shaped groove on the lower surface is 0.10-1.0 mm. The solder strip of the solar module has the following advantages that: through bending the solder strip, the internal stress of the solar cell sheet after being welded is largely reduced in the process of expanding with heat and contracting with cold so that the breaking rate of the solar cell and the hidden crack possibility of the solar module are reduced.

Mesenchymal stem cells are pluripotent cells capable of differentiating into myocardial and vascular endothelial cells. The present invention demonstrates that the mesenchymal stem cell sheet have therapeutic potential for a severely damaged heart due to its pluripotency and in situ self-renewal capability. Mesenchymal stem cells derived from adipose tissue were cultured to prepare a mesenchymal stem cell sheet. Four weeks after induction of myocardial infarction in rats, the mesenchymal stem cell sheet was transplanted to the heart. The mesenchymal stem cell sheet were readily engrafted to the surface of the scarred myocardium, grew gradually in situ, and formed a thick layer (approximately 600 μm) in 4 weeks. The grown transplanted mesenchymal tissue contained newly formed blood vessels, myocardial cells, and undifferentiated mesenchymal cells. The engrafted mesenchymal stem cells inhibited thinning of the myocardial wall in the scar area, and improved cardiac function and survival rate in rats with myocardial infarcts. Thus, mesenchymal stem cell sheet transplantation may represent a novel therapeutic approach for myocardial tissue regeneration.

The present disclosure relates to bispecific polypeptides comprising a first and a second immunoglobulin single variable domain (ISV), wherein said first ISV binds to a first target on the surface of a cancer cell with a low affinity and, when bound inhibits a function of said first target, and a said second ISV binds to a second target on the surface of said cell with a high affinity and wherein said first target is different from said second target. The present invention further discloses methods for identifying and making the same.

Enrichment for human Keratinocyte Stem Cells KSCs to a high degree of purity can be successfully achieved on the basis of a cell surface component whose expression is proliferation-related in conjunction with an integrin such as the alpha6beta4 integrin. Transferrin receptor may be used as the cell surface component that is proliferation related. Enrichment of Transit amplifying cells can also be achieved by use of a variation of this method. The enrichment follows on from harvesting of cells from an epithelium, preferably rich in stem cells.

The invention discloses a cardiac muscle tonifying tablet taking an acellular biological membrane as a carrier as well as a preparation method and application of the cardiac muscle tonifying tablet. The cardiac muscle tonifying tablet taking the acellular biological membrane as the carrier is prepared by the following steps: carrying out decellularizing treatment on a natural biological membrane; then, cross-linking nutrient substances on the acellular biological membrane; planting target cells on the acellular biological membrane cross-linked with the nutrient substances; and cultivating a cell sheet which is preliminarily constructed, so that the cardiac muscle tonifying tablet taking the acellular biological membrane as the carrier is prepared. The cardiac muscle tonifying tablet disclosed by the invention is good in proliferation and differentiation activities and mechanical strength, and is sufficient in nutrition support; the cardiac muscle tonifying tablet is not only a breakthrough in tissue engineering but also suitable for the clinical treatment of myocardial infarction. The cardiac muscle tonifying tablet disclosed by the invention is reliable in principle, good in reproducibility, and suitable for standard production.

The invention discloses a magnetic nano-grade material with a cell-targeting property, and a biomedical application thereof. The magnetic nano-grade material can be specifically bound with highly expressed transferrin receptors on tissue cell surfaces, and can enter the cells. The material can be bound with various high-transferring-receptor-expression tissue cells with broad spectrum and specificity, such that high-efficiency cell targeting property can be realized on animal models. The material can be used as a magnetic resonance contrast agent and a fluorescent molecular probe in disease diagnosis, and can be used as a medicine carrier in disease treatment.

Methods of identifying, isolating and qualifying pancreatic progenitor cells and definite endodermal cells. An isolated population of pancreatic progenitor cells, including at least 75% of cells having a TROP-2+ and / or TROP-2+ / GPR50+ expression pattern and an isolated population of definite endodermal cells, including at least 50% of cells having aSOX17+ / SOX7+ / GSC+ / CER+ / FOXA2+ / CXCR4+ / NANOG expression pattern. Nucleic acid constructs including a reporter protein under the transcriptional regulation of SOX17 regulatory sequence or of PDX1 regulatory sequence, and cells comprising same, and methods and kits using same.

The invention discloses a capture sieve and a device for capturing cells or biomolecules in solutions. The capture sieve comprises a net-shaped base body and a capture layer formed on the net-shaped base body, wherein the capture layer comprises capture matter which can be in specific binding with target cells or biomolecules. The capture sieve and the device provided by the invention have high specificity and high flux, are suitable for capturing the cells or capturing the biomolecules in the solutions by adopting the molecules expressed by the cells, and are particularly suitable for capturing and sorting circulating tumor cells.