Provided is a technique for highly expressing a target protein in a plant cell by using a glycosylation domain, a recombinant vector comprising a gene encoding a fusion protein of a glycosylation domain and a target protein, a recombinant cell, a transformed plant, and a method of producing a target protein using these.

Aspects of the present invention include methods and compositions related to the production and use of numerous clonal lineages of embryonic progenitor cell lines derived from differentiating cultures of primordial stem cells with diverse molecular markers and having been cultured for >21 doublings of clonal expansion. The robustness of these clonally-purified lines, their ability to expand for >40 passages while maintaining their pattern of gene expression, lack of tumorigenicity, and their embryonic pattern of gene expression offers novel compositions and methods for modeling numerous differentiation pathways for the first time in vitro, and for the manufacture of purified product not existing in such a purified state in nature or using other manufacturing modalities. Representative progenitor cell lines described herein are capable of development into cutaneous adipocytes, blood-brain barrier cells, neuronal cells, or smooth muscle cells each with therapeutic potential.

A method of generating a CD4.sup.+FoxP3.sup.+ Treg cell, the method includes administering at least one complement antagonist to a naive CD4.sup.+ T cell at an amount effective to substantially inhibits C3a receptor (C3aR) and/or C5a receptor (C5aR) signal transduction in the CD4.sup.+ T cell, induce TGF-1 expression of the CD4.sup.+ T cell, and induce differentiation of the of the naive CD4.sup.+ T cell into a CD4.sup.+FoxP3.sup.+ Treg cell.

Methods, compositions and kits for determining the developmental potential of one or more embryos are provided. These methods, compositions and kits find use in identifying embryos in vitro that are most useful in treating infertility in humans.

The present disclosure relates to genetically modified non-human animals that express a human or chimeric (e.g., humanized) CD3e (T-cell surface glycoprotein CD3 epsilon chain), and methods of use thereof.

Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for inactivation of the human glucocorticoid receptor (GR) gene by targeted cleavage of genomic DNA encoding the GR. Such methods and compositions are useful, for example, in therapeutic applications which require retention of immune function during glucocorticoid treatment.

Disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions for inducing an immune response against tumor cells comprising tumor cells which are made apoptotic by treatment with high hydrostatic pressure and dendritic cells, and methods for producing such compositions.

The present invention relates to the area of in vitro cell populations useful for generating vascular networks in vitro and are suitable for use in vivo for regeneration of vascular tissue. In some embodiments, the bipotent cell population of the present invention comprise endothelial cells and pericytes that express vascular endothelial cadherin and are 95% or more positive for CD105 and CD146, and which work syergistically to recreate vascular tissues in vitro.

The present invention relates to fibronectin based scaffold domain proteins that bind PCSK9. The invention also relates to the use of the innovative proteins in therapeutic applications to treat atherosclerosis, hypercholesterolemia and other cholesterol related diseases. The invention further relates to cells comprising such proteins, polynucleotides encoding such proteins or fragments thereof, and to vectors comprising the polynucleotides encoding the innovative protein.

A B7-H3 antibody, an antigen-binding fragment thereof and a medical use thereof are provided. Furthermore, a pharmaceutical composition containing the B7-H3 antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof, and the use thereof as a medicament are provided. In particular, a use of a human B7-H3 antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof for the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of a B7-H3-associated disease or condition are described.