Provided are immunomodulatory pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical compositions that include alpha-synuclein and at least one preselected antigen, such as at least one preselected peptide antigen or immunogen. Also provided are methods for modulating immune activity toward at least one preselected antigen in an at least substantially antigen-specific manner that include administering such a composition to a human patient or to a non-human mammalian subject. Still further provided are enhanced assay methods for quantifying antigen-specific cellular responses, such as cytokine release, to preselected antigens.

A method and a platform for detecting an immunogenicity of a tumor neoantigen are provided. Specifically, the detection method includes the following steps: culturing human peripheral blood monocytes ex vivo for 13 days, adding an antigenic peptide fragment of human influenza virus and stimulating and activating cytokines, antigenic peptides, and immunoadjuvants during the 13 days, and finally conducting enzyme-linked immunospot (ELISPOT) chromogenic reaction and instrument-based scanning, counting, and analysis to detect the immunogenicity of tumor neoantigen. An application of the detection method and platform in biomedicine is provided. Compared with the prior art, the detection method and platform have advantages and characteristics of a short detection period, high convenience, low consumption of experimental cells, and low detection cost. Therefore, the detection method and platform can be used for ex vivo high-throughput assay for the immunogenicity of the tumor neoantigen.

The application relates to the discovery of novel gene expression profiles and/or single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) and/or insertions or deletions of bases (INDEL) profiles that correlate with a subject's positive receptiveness to Interleukin 10 (IL-10) or IL-10 based agent treatments. The application also relates to methods of treating patients with an IL-10 or IL-10 based agent treatment by screening, examining, or determine patients possessing a gene expression profile and/or SNP and/or INDEL profile most receptive to the treatment.

Provided herein are STING and SPARCS genes as biomarkers for determining an effective therapy for treating cancer. Further provided are methods for treating cancer using said biomarkers.

The invention relates to materials, methods and devices useful for sampling biological molecules, including biomarkers and/or metabolites. In particular, the invention relates to surface functionalised xerogels and surface functionalised poly(dimethyl) siloxane (PDMS), devices comprising those materials, and methods of using the materials and devices for sampling, analysing or detecting biological molecules.

The present disclosure is directed to novel biomarkers useful for staging EHV-1 infections and immunity status of horses. This disclosure is further directed to methods of determining EHV-1 infection stage and immunity status of horses using the novel biomarkers.

The present invention refers to the use of gene sequences or portions thereof characterized in that the same belong to the classes of in vitro and ex vivo induced, repressed or conserved genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis currently infected human macrophages and to corresponding peptides or consensus peptides or proteins for the preparation of specific bio-markers for the diagnosis and prevention of active or latent disease.

An assay and a method for identifying a prebiotic to treat a subject in need thereof to promote intestinal barrier integrity or to blunt an inflammatory response are provided.

The current invention provides methods to identify 92T-cell receptors (92TCR) that mediate anti-tumour responses. Surprisingly, it was now found that the CDR3 regions of the 9-T-cell receptor chain and the 2-T-Cell receptor chain (2TCR chain) are of importance. Based on these findings, combinatorial-TCR-chain-exchange (CTE) is proposed as an efficient method for identifying 92TCRs that mediate anti-tumour responses. Using the method of the invention, specific sequences of the respective 9TCR and 2TCR chains were identified that mediate anti-tumour responses. Hence, the invention further provides for specific 92TCRs, or fragments thereof, that may be used e.g. in diagnostics or treatment of cancer. The invention further provides for nucleic acid sequences, genetic constructs and retroviral vectors that can be used to express the 92TCRs according to the invention.

In some embodiment, the present invention is directed to a device for obtaining samples from a subject. In other embodiments, methods and devices of the present invention allow the evaluation of conditions of the gastrointestinal tract of a subject. Measurements may be utilized, for example, to diagnose a disease of the esophagus, to monitor inflammation of the esophagus, or to access the treatment of a disease of the esophagus. In one embodiment, the invention comprises a method for measuring esophageal inflammation comprising deploying a device into the esophagus of a subject, removing the device after a predetermined period of time, analyzing the device for a diagnostic indicator of esophageal inflammation and evaluating the diagnostic indicator to diagnose esophageal inflammation.