The invention described herein provides biological markers for the diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of prostate cancer.

The present invention relates to a metabolic biomarker set for use in assessing breast cancer in a mammalian subject. In particular, the invention relates to a metabolic biomarker set for screening and/or diagnosing breast cancer, the metabolic biomarker set including at least (a) one amino acid selected from glutamine, glutamate and serine, and one lipid, or (b) glutamine and glutamate. Further, the invention relates to a metabolic biomarker set for prediction of therapeutic response to breast cancer neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Moreover, the present invention relates to a method for assessing breast cancer, which includes obtaining a biological sample, preferably blood, from a mammalian subject and measuring in the biological sample the amount and/or ratios of metabolites. By employing the specific biomarkers and the method according to the present invention it becomes possible to more properly and reliably assess breast cancer.

Disclosed herein are serine threonine kinase (AKT) degradation/disruption compounds including an AKT ligand, a degradation/disruption tag, and a linker, and methods of using such compounds in the treatment of AKT-mediated diseases.

The present invention generally relates to the fields of cancer therapy and cancer prevention. More particularly, the present invention generally relates to a diagnostic marker for predicting the efficacy of topoisomerase I (topo I) inhibitors in the treatment of cancers. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods, machines, computer systems, computable readable media and kits which can be used to identify and determine the effectiveness of topoisomerase I (topo I) inhibitors in the treatment of cancers, and in some embodiments, the level of sensitivity or resistance of a tumor cell to a topoisomerase I inhibitor, such as camptothecin (CPT), or CPT analogues such as topotecan and irinotecan and derivatives thereof. More specifically, the present invention related to methods, machines, computer systems, computable readable media and kits which can be used to determine a mutation in the BRCA1 gene, e.g., in the RING domain and/or BRCT domain of BRCA1, and where the presence of such mutation which interferes with the interaction of BRCA1 with phosphorylated Topo I indicates that the subject who has the mutation is likely to be responsive to a topo I inhibitor, Other aspect of the present invention relate to assays and methods to screening candidate compounds to interrupt or interfere with the interaction of BRCA1 with phospho-serine10 topoisomerase I, and uses thereof.

Herein is reported a method for the detection of a sortase in a sample, comprising the following steps: a) incubating the sample with a first substrate comprising an immobilization tag and a second substrate comprising a detectable label, whereby in the presence of a sortase in the sample a conjugate comprising the immobilization tag and the detectable label is formed, b) immobilizing the conjugate of step a) via/using the immobilization tag to a solid phase, c) detecting the immobilized conjugate via/using the detectable label
and thereby detecting the sortase in the sample.

Pharmaceutical composition for the treatment of proteinopathies comprising products which are able to stimulate growth or inhibition of at least one of Odoribacter, Oscillospira, Dehalobacterium, Alistipes, Parabacteroides, Lactobacillus and Sutterella, Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, Allobaculum and Akkermansia bacteria population in the gut of individuals.

The methods and kits described herein are based, in part, to the discovery of a phenotype representing a fully-reprogrammed iPS cell and several reprogramming intermediates. The methods and kits described herein permit identification of fully-reprogrammed iPS cells and further permits one of skill in the art to monitor the emergence of iPS cells during the reprogramming process. The methods/kits can also be performed using real time using live cell imaging. Also described herein are methods for screening candidate reprogramming agents by monitoring the emergence of fully-reprogrammed iPS cells in the presence and absence of such an agent.

Disclosed herein are serine threonine kinase (AKT) degradation/disruption compounds including an AKT ligand, a degradation/disruption tag, and a linker, and methods of using such compounds in the treatment of AKT-mediated diseases.

The present invention provides a method of treating, preventing, diagnosing and prognosing sepsis, and septic shock, and subjects likely to progress to sepsis and subjects in septic shock using biomarkers that can be used to stratify treatment procedures in response to the diagnosis.

The present invention relates to a metabolic biomarker set for use in assessing breast cancer in a mammalian subject. In particular, the invention relates to a metabolic biomarker set for screening and/or diagnosing breast cancer, the metabolic biomarker set comprising at least (a) one amino acid selected from glutamine, glutamate and serine, and one lipid, or (b) glutamine and glutamate. Further, the invention relates to a metabolic biomarker set for prediction of therapeutic response to breast cancer neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Further, the invention relates to a metabolic biomarker set for assessing biochemical reflection of breast cancer tumor activity. Further, the invention relates to a metabolic biomarker set for subclassification between intrinsic breast cancer tumor subtypes. Moreover, the present invention relates to a method for assessing breast cancer, which comprises obtaining a biological sample, preferably blood, from a mammalian subject and measuring in the biological sample the amount and/or ratios of metabolites. By employing the specific biomarkers and the method according to the present invention it becomes possible to more properly and reliably assess breast cancer.