122 results about "MRD Negative" patented technology

Protein biomarkers that may advantageously be utilized in diagnosing prostate cancer, benign prostate hyperplasia or to make a negative diagnosis are described. Accordingly, in one aspect of the invention, methods for aiding in, or otherwise making, a diagnosis of prostate cancer or benign prostate hyperplasia are provided. In one form of the invention, a method includes detecting various protein biomarkers of defined molecular weight and correlating the detection to a diagnosis of prostate cancer, benign prostate hyperplasia or to a negative diagnosis. In yet another aspect of the invention, kits are provided that may be utilized to detect the biomarkers described herein. In a further of the invention, methods of using a plurality of classifiers to make a probable diagnosis of prostate cancer of benign prostate hyperplasia are provided. In certain forms of the invention, the methods include use of a boosted decision tree analysis. Various computer readable media are also provided.

This invention provides methods and kits for diagnosing, ascertaining the clinical course of minimal residual disease associated with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Specifically the invention provides methods and kits useful in the diagnosis and determination of clinical parameters associated with diseases associated with ALL based on patterns of surface marker expression unique to ALL.

The present invention is directed to mammalian T cells and methods for using these T cells. More specifically, the invention relates to viral specific T cells that express an endogenous viral antigen receptor, a chimeric anti-tumor receptor and the chemokine receptor CCR7. These T cells are a source of effector cells that persist in vivo in response to stimulation with viral antigen, leading to long-term function after their transfer to patients with cancer and autoimmune diseases and that are able to traffic to lymph nodes and sites of minimal residual disease.

The invention provides multiple PCR primers for constructing a leukemia minimal residual disease BCR library based on high-flux sequencing. The multiple PCR primers comprise upstream primers and downstream primers, wherein the upstream primers are an upstream primer group composed of nucleotide sequences which are 0-3 basic groups more or less than the nucleotide sequences shown in the SEQ ID NO: 1-SEQ ID NO: 13, and the downstream primers are composed of nucleotide sequences which are 0-3 basic groups more or less than the nucleotide sequences shown in the SEQ ID NO: 14-SEQ ID NO: 17. The provided multiple PCR primer group can efficiently construct the B lymphocyte receptor high-flux sequencing library of a leukemia patient, so that rich leukemia minimal residual disease BCR rearrangement information can be obtained.

The present invention includes vaccine compositions and methods for using these vaccine compositions in active immunotherapy. The vaccine compositions include allogeneic activated Th1 memory cells. The compositions can also include one or more disease-related antigens. The methods include administering the vaccine compositions to provide a Th1 footprint in normal individuals or patients susceptible to disease or having minimal residual disease.

The invention relates to the field of minimal residual disease (MRD) diagnostics, which is progressively more applied for the evaluation of treatment effectiveness in patients with a hematological malignancy, such as B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (BCP-ALL), B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL), and multiple myeloma (MM). Provided are unique reagent compositions with carefully selected and thoroughly tested combinations of antibodies, for >=8 color flow cytometric stainings as well as for 10-color and 12-color flow cytometric stainings, which can reach sensitivities of at least 10<-4>, even down to 10<-5>. Also provided are diagnostic kits and methods for detecting MRD.

The present invention provides a detecting method of detecting malignant cells in a patient's specimen or a biological sample. Specifically, the inventive method includes the steps of extracting a genomic DNA, digesting said genomic DNA with one or multiple methylation sensitive restriction enzymes, and amplifying by PCR with one or multiple selected primers. The PCR can be performed in a conventional or a real-time platform. The inventive method can detect leukemia cells in 90% ALL patients at a sensitivity of up to 10⁻⁶. The inventive method also provides broad clinical applications in cancer (including hematopoietic and solid tumors) screening and risk assessment, early detection and diagnosis confirmation, and therapeutic monitoring, minimal residual disease detection and prognostic prediction.

The invention discloses a kit and a special primer and probe thereof which are used for detecting the MPLW515L mutation of myeloid proliferation diseases. The kit provided by the invention comprises a primer and a TaqMan-MGB probe; wherein, the nucleotide sequence of the primer is shown by SEQ ID NO:1 and SEQ ID NO:2 in a sequence table; the nucleotide sequence of the TaqMan-MGB probe is shown by SEQ ID NO: 3 and SEQ ID NO:4 in the sequence table. The kit provided by the invention is used for detecting the MPLW515L mutation in clinic and scientific research, which not only provides a fast, reliable and accurate new way for diagnosing MPDs, but also can furthermore provide the exact ratio of the mutation genes of MPLW515L and the genes of wild MPL, thus providing proof for curative effect observation and the dynamic observation of minimal residual diseases.

The invention discloses a kit for quantitatively detecting ABL mRNA level. The kit comprises a standard product for manufacturing a standard curve and an internal reference gene real-time quantitative PCR system. The kit can accurately, rapidly and quantitatively detect the ABL mRNA level. In various leukaemia fusion gene detections, ABL is taken as the internal reference gene, the kit is used for performing quantitation of the internal reference gene to realize accurate, rapid and quantitative detection of various leukaemia fusion gene, further accurately and rapidly performs molecular diagnosis of leukaemia and monitoring of minimal residual diseases during treatment, and provides important molecular basis for confirmed diagnosis of clinic diseases, determination of treatment proposals, curative effect evaluation and prognosis.

The invention relates to a kit for detecting an expression index of mRNA (messager Ribose Nucleic Acid) of a WT1 (Wilms Tumor 1) gene, and belongs to the field of biotechnology. The kit comprises detection primers, a fluorescent probe, a cDNA (complementary Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid) first strand synthesis reagent, a fluorescent quantitative PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) mixed solution, negative reference and positive reference, wherein the detection primers and the fluorescent probe comprise a WT1 gene primer, an internal reference gene ABL primer and a Taqman fluorescent probe. The WT1 gene is related with hematopoietic tumor incidence, is of over-expression in about 80% of patients with newly diagnosed acute myelocytic leukemia and acute lymphocytic leukemia, is recognized as a leukemia marker gene, and can serve as an independent minimal residue disease monitoring and prognosis prompting index. The level of the mRNA of the WT1 gene is detected by adopting a fluorescent quantitative PCR technology with higher sensitivity and specificity, and both the specificity and the sensitivity of a detection result are remarkably improved. The kit provides a brand-new quick, simple and convenient gene diagnosis technology for prognosing the acute myelocytic leukemia and the acute lymphocytic leukemia and confirming chemotherapy regimens.

The present invention belongs to the field of diagnosis of disease. Thus the present invention is focused on a method and kit for quantifying the level of minimal residual disease (MRD) in a subject who has been treated for said disease, which comprises:

(a) identifying, amplifying and sequencing a nucleotide sequence in a biological sample obtained from said subject after treatment for said disease, wherein the gDNA of said biological sample has an average weight, k, per cell, and wherein said nucleotide sequence is identified using primers and is amplified using an amount, D, to afford a first list of characters;

(b) identifying, amplifying and sequencing a nucleotide sequence in a biological sample obtained from a subject with said disease using the same primers as in step (a) to afford a second list of characters;

(c) determining, for each first list of characters obtained in step (a), the degree of similarity, DS, with each second list of characters obtained in step (b);

(d) selecting, for each first list of characters obtained in step (a), the DS of highest value, DS_HV;

(e) adding up the number of first lists of characters obtained in step (a) which have a DS_HV that is greater than a threshold value, T, to obtain L_c;

(f) adding up the total number of lists of characters, L_t, in the first list of characters; and

(g) calculating the level of minimal residual disease (MRD) according to either of the following formulae:

MRD=(L_c×k)/(L_t×D)

or

MRD=L_c×(D/k)/L_t².

The invention discloses an establishment method and application of a tumor classification and identification model, belongs to the field of medical disease diagnosis, aims at the problems that samplepreprocessing is complex and time-consuming due to need of location and collection of tumor focus specimens in current pathological diagnosis, small tumor tissues such as early tumor, small residual diseases and circulating tumor cannot be screened diagnosed in the prior art, and provides the establishment method of the tumor classification and identification model. The method is established basedon a plasma emission spectrum of a biological liquid sample, and is combined with chemometrics and a machine learning classification algorithm. The model established through the method can be integrated into a tumor diagnosis and screening instrument, and a rapid and accurate method for large-scale tumor screening and diagnosis of the early tumor and precancerous lesion stage diseases is provided.

Disclosed are diagnostic tests helpful in indicating presence of an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in a human patient. In one embodiment, the test comprises obtaining a sample of mucosal tissue from the ileum or sigmoid colon of the patient; evaluating sample quality by testing for cadaverine and continuing the diagnostic test if the sample has no detectable cadaverine; testing the cadaverine negative sample for N-acetylated spermine; and correlating a detectable level of N-acetylated spermine in the sample with presence of IBD in the patient. Another, less invasive, method disclosed includes a diagnostic test comprising isolating mononuclear leukocytes from the patient's blood; testing the isolated mononuclear leukocytes for level of spermidine; and correlating a level of spermidine higher than that in mononuclear leukocytes of normal subjects as indicative of an inflammatory bowel disease in the patient.

The invention discloses a kit and a special primer and probe thereof which are used for detecting the MPLW515K mutation of myeloid proliferation diseases. The kit provided by the invention comprises a primer and a TaqMan-MGB probe; wherein, the nucleotide sequence of the primer is shown by SEQ ID NO:1 and SEQ ID NO:2 in a sequence table; the nucleotide sequence of the TaqMan-MGB probe is shown by SEQ ID NO: 3 and SEQ ID NO:4 in the sequence table. The kit provided by the invention can be used for detecting the MPLW515K mutation in clinic and scientific research, which not only provides a fast, reliable and accurate new way for diagnosing MPDs, but also can furthermore provide the exact ratio of the mutation genes of MPLW515K and the genes of wild MPL, thus providing proof for curative effect observation and the dynamic observation of minimal residual diseases.

The invention discloses a quantitative detection kit for SSX-2 gene-based assisted diagnosis of multiple myeloma patients, which comprises a specific primer pair A and a probe A, wherein the specific primer pair A is a primer pair composed of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) disclosed as Sequence 1 and DNA disclosed as Sequence 2 in the sequence table; and the nucleotide sequence of the probe A is disclosed as Sequence 3 in the sequence table. The kit disclosed by the invention not only can be used for qualitative diagnosis of multiple myeloma, but also can be used for detecting the expression level of the SSX-2 gene of the patient through the reference gene. The invention provides a quick, reliable and accurate new way for diagnosis of multiple myeloma, and provides references for observing curative effects and dynamically observing minimal residual disease. The invention can perform vital functions in the field of medical detection.