The present invention relates generally to the field of making novel antigen binding domains against infectious diseases. The present invention also relates to novel CARs that utilize the novel antigen binding domains as an extracellular element. The present invention also relates to use of the novel antigen binding domains as therapeutic agents.

Provided are methods of detecting a marker for active tuberculosis, and a portable device for carrying out a method of detecting a marker for active tuberculosis. Also provided is a system for carrying out a method of detecting a marker for active tuberculosis, a method for pre-treating a sample stream from a human or animal suspected of having active tuberculosis, a system for pre-treating a sample stream from a human or animal suspected of having active tuberculosis and kits for performing said methods.

The present invention provides methods of reducing lung injury in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of an agent that inhibits the activity of SUR1.

Tools for characterizing uptake of therapeutic compounds by target tissue are disclosed along with methods for determining dosing regimen from the uptake parameters. Uptake parameters considered include partition coefficient, diffusivity, and equilibrium uptake ratio. Systems for determining partition coefficient and diffusivity in rapid uptake combinations of compounds and tissue are also reported.

The present application relates, in some aspects, to the development of an assay that uses cell survival and/or cell viability as a phenotypic identifier to positively select for agents that destabilize a protein of interest.

Disclosed herein, in certain embodiments, are methods and compositions for treating inflammatory disorders. In some embodiments, the methods comprise co-administering synergistic combinations of modulators of inflammation.

Disclosed herein are cells overexpressing a human organic anion transporting polypeptide 2A1 (OATP2A1) and methods of measuring OATP2A1-mediated cellular uptake of a compound, methods of determining if a compound modulates OATP2A1-mediated activity, methods for determining if a cell expresses OATP2A1, as well as kits for carrying out the aforementioned methods.

Novel methods and uses for modulating immune responses are provided. The methods and uses involve the use of a TIFA activator such heptose-1,7-5 bisphosphate or an analogue or derivative thereof. The methods may be used to activate, inhibit or otherwise modify an immune response so as to either prevent or treat infectious or inflammatory diseases or cancer. Also provided are methods to identify compounds capable of modulating immune responses.

The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for the diagnosis and treatment or prevention of proteinopathies, particularly MUC1-associated kidney disease (ADTKD-MUC1 or MKD), Retinitis Pigmentosa (e.g., due to rhodopsin mutations), autosomal dominant tubulo-interstitial kidney disease due to UMOD mutation(s) (ADTKD-UMOD), and other forms of toxic proteinopathies resulting from mutant protein accumulation in the ER or other secretory pathway compartments and/or vesicles, among others. The disclosure also identifies and provides TMED9-binding agents as capable of treating or preventing proteinopathies of the secretory pathway, and further provides methods for identifying additional TMED9-binding agents.

Methods and devices to screen test compounds, e.g., study metabolism of test compounds, e.g., a pro-drug, by one cell, e.g., a hepatocyte, and the effect of metabolism of the test compound by the first cell on a second cell, e.g., a cancer cell, are described.