An immunoassay for assisting in the diagnosis of sepsis or severe infection in a patient/subject, the assay comprising the steps of: (i) optionally contacting a test sample comprising neutrophils from the patient with an agent that permeabilises or solubilizes neutrophils; (ii) simultaneously with (i) or sequentially, contacting the sample with a binding agent that binds specifically to CD64 in the sample and forms a CD64-binding agent complex a; (iii) simultaneously with (i) and/or (ii) or sequentially, contacting the sample with a second binding agent that binds specifically to a neutrophil number marker (NNM) in the sample and forms a neutrophil marker-binding agent complex b; (iv) employ the amount of complex a and complex b to determine the relative level of CD46 and of NNM in the sample.

Method for evaluating metabolic activity of non-tumor cells in a biological fluid sample via detection of extra-cellular acidification rate.

Provided is a device or method for detection of leukocytes in a disease state or leukocytes in an abnormal state, or diagnosing a leukocyte-related disease, according to the device or method according to an aspect, it is possible to detect leukocytes in a disease state or leukocytes in an abnormal state at an early stage using a small amount of sample isolated from a subject, and thus, there is an effect that allows diagnosis of a leukocyte-related disease, for example, inflammation, an infectious disease, an immune disease, a metabolic disease, or cancer, etc.

Provided herein are compositions comprising aptamers that specifically bind monocytes and/or macrophage and methods for their use. These aptamer compositions can be used in methods for isolating and/or enriching monocytes and/or macrophages or depleting cell populations of monocytes and/or macrophages. Further provided are methods of using the aptamers or cell populations generated using them in the methods disclosed herein for therapies and/or drug delivery.

The present disclosure relates generally to methods and systems for detecting, characterizing biomarker expression and morphological analysis in cell samples. The methods allow for the use of automated platforms to stain cells for molecular biomarkers and Romanowsky-type staining for cell morphology analysis. Cells that are prepared according to the disclosed methods can also be used in the diagnosis of certain conditions.

The present disclosure generally relates to methods for diagnosing, predicting and treating graft-vs-host disease and/or relapse of a hematologic malignancy following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation based on T-cell specific biomarkers.

This invention provides methods to evaluate therapeutic efficacy of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies.

Disclosed herein are methods for isolating target cells from blood, involving mixing in an open container an undiluted blood sample having a volume of 10 ml or less, and binding agents, wherein each binding agent comprises (A) a primary binding agent comprising an agent capable of binding to at least one cellular epitope on target cells in the undiluted blood sample, (B) a first linker bound to the primary binding agent, to generate binding agent-attached target cells in the undiluted blood sample; contacting the binding agent-attached target cells in the undiluted blood sample with a plurality of buoyant reagents that include a second linker capable of binding to the first linker to generate an undiluted buoyant reagent-attached target cell mixture; diluting the undiluted buoyant reagent-attached target cell mixture by at least 20% to produce a diluted buoyant reagent-attached target cell mixture; applying a vectorial force, such as centrifugal force, to the diluted buoyant reagent-attached target cell mixture to generate a stratified diluted buoyant reagent-attached target cell mixture; removing the buoyant reagent-attached target cells from the stratified diluted buoyant reagent-attached target cell mixture; and isolating the target cells from the buoyant reagent-attached target cells.

There is provided a method of identifying a neutrophil progenitor, the method comprising: determining an expression of at least one biomarker selected from the group consisting of: CD71, LOX-1, CD164, CD112, CD181, TACSTD2, CD11b and CD49d in a cell. In various embodiments, the cell is identified as a neutrophil progenitor when it is determined to have at least one of the following expression profiles: CD71.sup.hi/+, LOX-1.sup.int/lo/−, CD164.sup.hi/+, CD112.sup.hi/+, CD181.sup.int/lo/−, TACSTD2.sup.hi/+, CD11b.sup.lo/− and/or CD49d.sup.int/hi/+. Also disclosed are a method of sorting and/or separating neutrophil progenitors from a cell population, a composition that is enriched in neutrophil progenitors and related uses and methods.

Embodiments of the present technology include a method for testing a blood sample for sepsis. The method may include receiving a blood sample from an individual. The method may also include executing an instruction to analyze the blood sample for sepsis. In addition, the method may include measuring values of a set of characteristics in the blood sample. The set of characteristics being determined prior to measuring the values. The method may further include analyzing the values of the set of characteristics to produce a representation of a suspicion of sepsis. In addition, the method may include displaying the representation. Embodiments also include systems for testing blood sample for sepsis.