Provided herein are methods and compositions for modulating T-cell activity by incubating a CD8 T cell with a signal 3 cytokine, such as IL-12. Incubation of naïve CD8 T cells, particularly, with a signal 3 cytokine can acquire long-lived memory associated gene expression characteristic of the stem cell memory subset of CD8 T cells. Further, incubation with signal 3 cytokines can induce changes to the epigenetic profile of naïve CD8 T cells that are more characteristic of bona fide T.sub.scm cells than in vitro generated cells using traditional differentiation protocols. On account of epigenetic profiles being preserved during in vivo homeostasis, signal 3 cytokines such as IL-12 can be used to engineer a T cell population with the desired epigenetic profile that maintains effector functions and proliferative capacity.

Disclosed are compositions and methods for genetically engineering NK cells.

Provided is a method for producing an economical bovine serum composition containing many factors useful for cell proliferation. The method includes a step of performing an anticoagulation treatment of bovine whole blood with an anticoagulant, a step of obtaining a buffy coat and a fraction with a heavier specific gravity than that of the buffy coat from the anticoagulated whole blood, and a step of promoting and activating an interaction between the obtained leukocytes and platelets at a given temperature for not less than a given time to cause secretion or release of a humoral factor from the leukocytes and/or platelets and performing a recoagulation treatment of blood components including the humoral factor with a re-coagulating agent.

A method is described herein for generating antigen-specific memory T. cells for effective immunotherapy responses using pan inhibitors of lysine deacetylase (KDAC), The present invention features the introduction of pan KDAC inhibitors during T-cell culture and/or vaccination to tune T cell differentiation into memory T cells for persistent antigen-specific responses. The current invention can be applied to the generation of personalized immunotherapies, including: 1) durable immunotherapy generation for the pharmaceutical industry; 2) patient-specific immunotherapy tor personalized medicine; and 3) specific memory T cell population generation or T cell therapy for cancer and/or infections for personalized cancer immunotherapy. The present invention relates to a method to induce acquired T cell differentiation towards the generation of specific memory T cells with selective functions for treatment.

Disclosed herein are non-naturally existing novel platelet variants or platelet like cells (PLCs), extracellular vesicles (EVs), and derivatives thereof. Composition comprising the same and methods for treatment or prevention of diseases or disorders therewith is also disclosed.

The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.

Provided herein are methods for inducing and maintaining an immune response to a tumor in a subject while treating a primary tumor. The methods include administering to the subject an effective amount of CAR-expressing-NK-92 cells to treat the primary tumor thereby inducing an anti-tumor immune response that is maintained in the subject, the maintained immune response preventing tumor regrowth and/or inhibiting generation of secondary tumors. Also provided are methods of producing an anti-tumor vaccine in a subject with a tumor. The methods include administering to the subject an effective amount of CAR-expressing-NK-92 cells to the subject thereby inducing an anti-tumor vaccine to the tumor in the subject.

This disclosure provides modified natural killer (NK) cells possessing both NK cell function and dendritic cell function and method of culturing the same. By administration of the modified NK cell, cancer cells in a subject may be effectively inhibited via cell-mediated immunity.

The present disclosure relates to a method for producing of a memory-like natural killer cell having an ability to produce a higher level of a natural killer cell receptor, having a better killing capacity, and having an ability to produce a higher level of IFN-γ than a natural killer cell in human peripheral blood, and a memory-like natural killer cell produced by the method, and a cancer treatment method using the memory-like natural killer cell.

The present disclosure relates to a method for producing natural killer (NK) cells. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a method for producing NK cells, characterized in that peripheral blood mononuclear cells from which CD3-positive cells are removed are proliferated together with feeder cells, and the peripheral blood mononuclear cells are re-stimulated with feeder cells at the time of reaching a specific accumulated population doubling level. The present disclosure also relates to a method for producing NK cells, characterized in that NK cells are cultured under appropriate culture conditions by using a bioreactor. The production method according to the present disclosure has an advantage that NK cells having a high cell-killing ability and cell survival rate can be produced with high purity and at high efficiency in a short period of time by a clinically friendly method as compared with existing methods, thereby increasing the productivity of an NK cell therapy agent.