Disclosed are methods of preventing, treating, or diagnosing in a subject a disorder in protein folding or aggregation, or amyloid formation, deposition, accumulation, or persistence consisting of administering to said subject a pharmaceutically effective amount of inositol stereoisomers, enantiomers or derivatives thereof.

Methods and materials are disclosed for testing biomarkers in a subject suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are described herein. Such detection can be useful for diagnosing and treating ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), two forms of IBD that are otherwise difficult to distinguish. The method includes measuring the level of one or more of several biomarkers, including HD5 or MMP-7, which are expressed differentially in patents with UC and CD. A treatment may be based on the determination of whether the subject has ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease.

Methods and materials are disclosed for testing biomarkers in a subject suffering from inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are described herein. Such detection can be useful for diagnosing and treating ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn's disease (CD), two forms of IBD that are otherwise difficult to distinguish. The method includes measuring the level of one or more of several biomarkers, including HD5 or MMP-7, which are expressed differentially in patents with UC and CD. A treatment may be based on the determination of whether the subject has ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease.

Methods for in vivo immunoimaging including: (a) administering a labeled-antibody conjugate to a subject, wherein the labeled-antibody conjugate includes: an antibody that specifically recognizes and binds to IFN-γ, and a detection label conjugated to the antibody, wherein the detection label is a radionuclide tracer or tluorophore; and (b) detecting the presence of the radiolabeled-antibody conjugate in the subject in vivo by imaging. Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to labeled-antibody conjugates and therapeutic radionuclide-antibody conjugates.

In making an optical component, one or more portions of a substrate's surface are patterned. At least a region of the substrate's surface is coated in negative photoresist, the region encompassing said portions. The negative photoresist becomes undevelopable when exposed to light. Light which forms a grating structure is projected over each of the portions. Light of substantially uniform intensity over the entirety of the region but for the portions, thereby leaving the negative photoresist outside of the portions undevelopable. The negative photoresist is developed so as to embody the grating structure in the photoresist covering the portions. The substrate's surface is patterned to impose the grating structure on the substrate's surface from the developed photoresist; the undevelopable photoresist inhibits patterning of the surface region outside of the portions. The optical component comprises the patterned substrate.

In making an optical component, one or more portions of a substrate's surface are patterned. At least a region of the substrate's surface is coated in negative photoresist, the region encompassing said portions. The negative photoresist becomes undevelopable when exposed to light. Light which forms a grating structure is projected over each of the portions. Light of substantially uniform intensity over the entirety of the region but for the portions, thereby leaving the negative photoresist outside of the portions undevelopable. The negative photoresist is developed so as to embody the grating structure in the photoresist covering the portions. The substrate's surface is patterned to impose the grating structure on the substrate's surface from the developed photoresist; the undevelopable photoresist inhibits patterning of the surface region outside of the portions. The optical component comprises the patterned substrate.

The present application provides quinoline-3-carboxamide compounds covalently linked to a label for use in the diagnosis of an inflammatory disease at local site. The above mentioned compounds can be used to detect or image accumulation of S100A9 in the body of a subject at sites of inflammation, using in vivo non-invasive molecular imaging techniques for the detection of said compounds. Accordingly, labeled quinoline-3-carboxamide compounds can be applied to evaluate the risk of a subject of developing an inflammatory disease and to follow the progress of the disease.

The present application provides quinoline-3-carboxamide compounds covalently linked to a label for use in the diagnosis of an inflammatory disease at local site. The above mentioned compounds can be used to detect or image accumulation of S100A9 in the body of a subject at sites of inflammation, using in vivo non-invasive molecular imaging techniques for the detection of said compounds. Accordingly, labeled quinoline-3-carboxamide compounds can be applied to evaluate the risk of a subject of developing an inflammatory disease and to follow the progress of the disease.

Methods of identifying a compound, such as a test compound, and applications thereof are provided. For example, methods of identifying a compound that preferentially affects, increases, or decreases a level of association of a macromolecule with one or more target condensates or methods of identifying a compound that preferentially causes a macromolecule to associate or disassociate with one or more target condensates are provided. Additionally, methods of designing and/or identifying and/or making a compound, or portion thereof, with a desired characteristic are provided.

Methods of identifying a compound, such as a test compound, and applications thereof are provided. For example, methods of identifying a compound that preferentially affects, increases, or decreases a level of association of a macromolecule with one or more target condensates or methods of identifying a compound that preferentially causes a macromolecule to associate or disassociate with one or more target condensates are provided. Additionally, methods of designing and/or identifying and/or making a compound, or portion thereof, with a desired characteristic are provided.