Disclosed herein are compositions, kits, and methods involving hypertonic solutions. Specifically, disclosed herein are methods and compositions used for increasing the yield of extracellular material from cells. This occurs when said cells are exposed to hypertonic solutions.

The disclosure provides population and non-population-based classifiers to categorize patients and cancers. The population-based classifiers disclosed integrate signatures, i.e., global scores related to the expression of genes in particular gene panels. The non-population-based classifiers are generated using machine-learning techniques (e.g., regression, random forests, or ANN). Each type of classifier stratifies patients and cancers according to tumor microenvironments (TME) as biomarker-positive or biomarker-negative, and treatment decisions are then guided by the presence/absence of a particular TME. Also provided are methods for treating a subject, e.g., a human subject, afflicted with cancer comprising administering a particular therapy depending on the classification of the cancer's TME according to the disclosed classifiers. Also provided are personalized treatments that can be administered to a subject having a cancer classified into a particular TME, and gene panels that can be used for identifying a human subject afflicted with a cancer suitable for treatment with a particular therapeutic agent.

Cells derived from postpartum placenta and methods for their isolation are provided by the invention. The invention further provides cultures and compositions of the placenta-derived cells. The placenta-derived cells of the invention have a plethora of uses, including but not limited to research, diagnostic, and therapeutic applications.

The invention relates to compositions and methods for the preparation, manufacture and therapeutic use of polynucleotides, primary transcripts and mmRNA molecules.

The present invention provides antibodies that bind to angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2) and methods of using same. According to certain embodiments of the invention, the antibodies are fully human antibodies that bind to human Ang-2. The antibodies of the invention are useful, inter alia, for the treatment of diseases and disorders associated with one or more Ang-2 biological activities including angiogenesis.

A trispecific inhibitor for treating cancer includes a first targeting domain having a binding specificity conferred by a VEGF binding antagonist; a second targeting domain having a binding specificity conferred by an immune checkpoint regulator binding antagonist; and a third targeting domain having a binding specificity conferred by a Tie2 tyrosine kinase receptor binding antagonist. The targeting domains may contain one or more antibody variable regions, peptide inhibitors, dominant negative proteins, small molecule drugs or combinations thereof.

The present invention in various aspects and embodiments involves pharmaceutical compositions prepared by contacting a candidate α- or β-integrin-binding molecule, or panel thereof, with an integrin heterodimer, and quantifying heterodimer disruption by the candidate molecule. An integrin-binding molecule, or derivative thereof, that disrupts the integrin heterodimer is selected and is formulated into a pharmaceutical composition for administration to a subject, e.g., who has a disease or disorder related to abnormal vascularization.

The present invention in various aspects and embodiments involves pharmaceutical compositions prepared by contacting a candidate α- or β-integrin-binding molecule, or panel thereof, with an integrin heterodimer, and quantifying heterodimer disruption by the candidate molecule. An integrin-binding molecule, or derivative thereof, that disrupts the integrin heterodimer is selected and is formulated into a pharmaceutical composition for administration to a subject, e.g., who has a disease or disorder related to abnormal vascularization.

The present invention examines the interaction between an angiopoietin-1 mimetic peptide, QHREDGS (glutamine-histidine-arginine-glutamic acid-aspartic acid-glycine-serine (SEQ ID NO: 1)) immobilized to a collagen-chitosan hydrogel, and murine bone marrow derived macrophages. When macrophages were cultured in the presence of the peptide conjugated to a hydrogel, both pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines were produced, in contrast to the application of soluble peptide which elicited minimal cytokine secretion. This indicates a unique macrophage polarization with covalently immobilized peptide hydrogels, which can be beneficial in the context of the wound microenvironment.

The present invention relates to products and processes for the treatment or prevention of viral infection(s). In particular the invention relates to the use of one or more proteins, typically obtained from milk, for the treatment or prevention of viral infection(s). In particular embodiments the invention uses combinations of milk proteins for the treatment or prevention of viral infection(s). The products of the invention may be used in combination with other active agents, including other antiviral agents.