Provided herein are compositions and methods for treating, reducing, preventing, inhibiting, mitigating, ameliorating, or slowing ocular replication or infections, such as viral conjunctivitis. Certain embodiments of the present disclosure relate to product combinations that include one or more ribonuclease, such as ranpirnase, or a variant, derivative, analogue, fragment, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and one or more additional therapeutic agent, such as a vasoconstrictor, an antibiotic, an immunomodulatory compound, or a steroid.

Provided herein are fusion proteins, isolated nucleic acids encoding a fusion protein, and gene delivery vectors comprising the same, wherein the isolated nucleic acids comprise: (i) a first sequence encoding a RNA-binding zinc finger domain; and (ii) a second sequence encoding a fusion partner; and methods of using the same.

It is herewith provided a biocontrol composition comprising an intact minicell comprising a nucleic acid that targets a transcript encoding a polypeptide and a method for controlling pests and pathogens with novel systems and compositions to deliver RNA molecules to a subject.

The invention relates to compositions, methods and kits for using Argonaute-2 (Ago-2) as a systemic carrier to deliver a miRNA to an endothelial cell. The invention also relates to compositions, methods and kits for inhibiting angiogenesis and/or treating a condition by using Ago-2 as a systemic carrier to deliver a miRNA to an endothelial cell. The condition includes but is not limited to brain vascular diseases and brain tumors.

The present invention concerns an in vitro method of diagnosis or prognosis of an atherosclerosis-related disorder by detecting a small Y RNA (s-RNY), as well as the use of an inhibitor of s-RNY as a medicament against atherosclerosis-related disorders. The invention also concerns a method for screening for a compound suitable for the treatment of an atherosclerosis-related disorder.

The invention relates to compositions, methods and kits for using Argonaute-2 (Ago-2) as a systemic carrier to deliver a miRNA to an endothelial cell. The invention also relates to compositions, methods and kits for inhibiting angiogenesis and/or treating a condition by using Ago-2 as a systemic carrier to deliver a miRNA to an endothelial cell. The condition includes but is not limited to brain vascular diseases and brain tumors.

Provided herein are mutant endonuclease V enzymes that are capable of nicking an inosine-containing DNA sequence. Nucleic acid assays and agents that employ such mutant endonuclease V enzymes to introduce a nick into a target DNA including one or more inosine, and uses a DNA polymerase to generate amplicons of a target DNA are also described.

The invention relates to medicine, biology, veterinary, pharmacology diagnostics, agriculture, ecology, meteorology, seismology, construction, biotechnology, biomanufacturing and provided herein are products and methods for managing cells behavior, memory of cells and erasure of cell memory. The present invention describes products and methods that, unlike the known ones, make it possible to control the properties of cells and organisms without the use of mutagens and/or the special introduction of genes and/or use of specific gene editing tools and/or changing its environmental conditions.

This invention relates to materials and methods for gene editing in mammalian cells, and more particularly to methods for gene editing using DNA-guided Argonaute (Ago) interference systems (DAIS) in T-cells.