Provided herein are silica metal organic framework (SMOF) nanoparticles that are pH-responsive for delivery of bioactive molecules. The nanoparticles include a organosilica network comprising a plural...
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Differentiation of normal stem cells into the correct cell lineage is a tightly controlled process that involves cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions as well as signaling through cellu...
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The present technology provides a nanoparticle comprising: a silica network comprising crosslinked polysiloxanes, wherein the crosslinks between polysiloxanes comprise disulfide linkages, the polysilo...
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A method of differentiating embryonic stem cells into ventral spinal progenitor cells is disclosed. In one embodiment, the invention comprises culturing a population of cells comprising a majority of ...
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The invention provides biomarker profiles of cellular metabolites and methods for screening chemical compounds including pharmaceutical agents, lead and candidate drug compounds and other chemicals us...
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The present disclosure provides for methods of diagnosing and treating bacterial infections. Human Intelectin 1 (hIntL-1) has been shown to bind selectively to glycan components on bacteria including ...
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Antibodies useful to prevent, inhibit or treat Ebola virus infection, vectors encoding and host cells expressing one or more heavy chains or light chains that bind Ebola virus, are provided.
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The present disclosure provides for methods providing a pre/probiotic agent to a subject. Human Intelectin 1 (hIntL-1) has been shown to bind selectively to glycan components on bacteria, thereby prom...
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Provided herein are peptides comprising an amino acid sequence having at least about 85% sequence identity to RYRPRAPIIAVT (SEQ ID NO: 1). These cationic peptides inhibit PKM2 methylation and may be u...
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A method of enhancing therapeutic/drug transport to the perivascular space of the brain of a patient is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises the step of introducing a therapeutic/drug an...
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A unimolecular nanoparticle, a composition thereof, and methods of use thereof that includes 1) a dendritic polymer having a molecular weight of about 500-120,000 Da and terminating in hydroxyl, amino...
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Disclosed are formulations for providing a therapeutic bioactive polypeptide to injured tissue. Formulations include mineral coated microparticles wherein a polynucleotide is adsorbed to the mineral l...
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The present invention relates to substantially planar vascularized brain cancer organoid and methods of using such vascularized brain cancer organoids in anti-cancer drug discovery screen. In particul...
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An expression cassette for gene silencing and replacement, including, in operable communication, a promoter, an expression attenuator, a nucleotide sequence encoding a gene for a replacement target pr...
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The present invention provides therapeutic formulations, including therapeutic nanoemulsions, and related methods for the in vivo delivery of hydrophobic compounds. Formulations and methods of the inv...
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Disclosed are compositions and methods for the co-delivery of ribonucleic acids and interferon binding proteins. Compositions include mineral coated microparticles having a mineral layer, a ribonuclei...
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The present invention discloses an ionic liquid composition comprising an at least partially hydrophobic ionic liquid, wherein the at least partially hydrophobic ionic liquid comprises a dication comp...
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Described herein are methods, compositions, and kits for directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells, neuromesodermal progenitors, and neural stem cells into biomimetic neural tissues com...
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With an increasing interest in using the CRISPR/Cas9 system for gene editing, there comes a strong need to develop tools for delivering the CRISPR machinery safely and efficiently into cells. Existing...
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With the explosion of interest in using the CRISPR/Cas9 system for gene editing, there is a strong focus on developing tools for delivering the CRISPR machinery safely and efficiently into cells. Exis...
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Polypeptides, such as enzymes, antibodies, hormones and cytokines, are useful therapeutic agents. However, routes for systemically introducing such polypeptides to a subject are limited. Oral administ...
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New tools for human gene editing are rapidly advancing all sectors of biomedicine from basic biology to somatic gene therapy in the clinic. Precise editing of DNA sequences in the human genome can be ...
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Two-drug combinations of paclitaxel and rapamycin (an mTOR inhibitor) as well as paclitaxel and 17-AAG (an enhanced version of geldanamycin and Hsp90 inhibitor) have progressed into human clinical tri...
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Chemoselective transformations are of key importance in modern chemical biology. Protein esterification can, for example, be employed for labeling, enhanced cellular uptake and other useful protein mo...
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Drug delivery to the brain is hampered by the presence of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), which excludes more than 98 percent of small molecule pharmaceuticals and nearly 100 percent of all protein and...
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