The present application relates to an antigen-binding polypeptide that specifically binds to B7H3, comprising at least one complementarity-determining region (CDR) of an antibody heavy chain variable region (VH), wherein the VH comprises an amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 25. The present application further relates to a chimeric antigen receptor comprising the antigen-binding polypeptide and a universal CAR-T cell comprising the chimeric antigen receptor. The CAR-T cell recognizes a surface antigen of a tumor cell and knocks out TCR and HLA-A genes expressed by the cell at the same time, so that the immune rejection caused by an allogeneic CAR-T therapy is reduced, the survival time of the cell is prolonged, and the anti-tumor effect is improved.

Embodiments of the present disclosure include methods and compositions related to CD70-targeting polypeptides. In certain aspects, anti-CD70 antibodies are disclosed. In some aspects, disclosed are chimeric receptors engineered to bind to CD70. Also disclosed are immune cell engagers comprising a CD70-binding region and one or more immune cell binding regions. Cells (e.g., NNK cells, T cells) expressing CD70-targeting peptides are described. Also described are therapeutic methods using polypeptides of the disclosure.

Disclosed is a method of in vitro fertilization wherein the embryo is implanted into the uterus of a female patient at least two, an preferably three to twelve months after the eggs are retrieved from the patient in order to reduce the effect of autoimmune rejection of the embryo by the patient's autoimmune system and increase the probability and success of pregnancy and wherein prior to embryo implantation, the endometrium in the uterus is prepared for embryo implantation by introducing peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) into the uterus. The procedure is combined with cryopreservation techniques to preserve the oocytes or the IVF-produced embryos of the patient.

Provided herein are Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) polypeptides, polynucleotides encoding the CARs, host cells containing or expressing the CARs and polynucleotides and methods of use to treat viral infections such as COVID or cancers in patients in need thereof.

The invention relates to agents and methods for treating or preventing inflammatory conditions or diseases.

The present disclosure relates to a novel anti-HER2 antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof used in the prevention or treatment of cancer, a chimeric antigen receptor including the same, and uses thereof. The antibody of the present disclosure is an antibody that specifically binds to HER2 which is highly expressed in cancer cells (particularly, breast cancer or gastric cancer cells), and binds to an epitope that is different from an epitope to which trastuzumab binds.

The present disclosure relates to methods for expanding and increasing the cytotoxic activity of natural killer cells comprising co-culturing, as feeder cells, a population of myeloid leukemia cells engineered to express one or more of membrane-bound IL-21 (mb IL-21) or membrane-bound IL-15 (mbIL-15) in the presence of cytokine support. The present disclosure also relates to a population of acute myeloid leukemia cells engineered to express one or more of membrane-bound IL-21 (mbIL-21) or membrane-bound IL-15 (mbIL-15). The present disclosure also relates to methods of treating cancer employing the step of expanding natural killer cells using feeder cells engineered to express one or more of membrane-bound IL-21 (mbIL-21) or membrane-bound IL-15 (mbIL-15).

Nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and recombinant cells harboring the nucleic acid constructs or vectors are disclosed. The nucleic acid constructs include genes encoding a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and/or one or more transcription factors, optionally mutated. The transcription factors include those that mediate proinflammatory cytokine expression, e.g., T-bet, STAT1, or STAT4. Methods are disclosed of co-expression of the CAR and the transcription factor in a human or non-human immune cell, preferably human T cells. Also disclosed are methods for using these cells for immunotherapy, e.g., in treating cancer, infection, autoimmunity, allergy or inflammation diseases by the administration of a prophylactically or therapeutically effective amount of one or more of the nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and/or immune cells, e.g., human CAR-T cells, described herein.

The present invention is directed to a monoclonal anti-human BCMA antibody, or a single-chain variable fragment (scFv), comprising V.sub.H having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6 and V.sub.L having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 7. The present invention is also directed to a BCMA chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) comprising from N-terminus to C-terminus: (i) a single-chain variable fragment (scFv) of the present invention, (ii) a transmembrane domain, (iii) at least one co-stimulatory domains, and (iv) an activating domain. The monoclonal antibody of the present invention exhibits selective and high-affinity binding to BCMA. BCMA CAR-T cells based on BCMA scFv of the present invention significantly decreases multiple myeloma tumor growth in an animal model.

The present invention relates to combination therapies with anti-CD38 antibodies.