Abstract:
The present invention provides a computer-implemented method for estimating the cancer cell fraction (CCF) of at least one tumour-specific mutation in a subject. Also provided are related methods for monitoring the clonal dynamics of a tumour, monitoring a treatment of the tumour and methods for treating a subject having a cancer, as well as systems for implementing the methods of the invention.
Abstract:
Methods for determining the fraction of lymphocytes in a mixed sample comprising genomic material from multiple cell types are described. The methods comprise obtaining a read depth profile for the sample along a predetermined genomic region of interest including at least a portion of a genomic locus that undergoes VDJ recombination; obtaining a plurality of read depth ratios (ri) by normalising the read depths by reference to a baseline read depth derived from a subset of the region of interest; obtaining a summarised read depth ratio value (rVDJ) for a subset of the region of interest that is likely to be deleted through VDJ recombination; and determining the fraction of lymphocytes (f) in the sample as a function of the summarised read depth ratio value (rVDJ). Methods of providing a diagnosis or prognosis based on the lymphocyte fraction are also described, as well as related systems and products.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an engineered T cell for use in a method of treatment of a proliferative disorder in a mammalian subject, wherein the T cell has been engineered (i) to overexpress BLIMP1 and/or (ii) to knock-out or decrease expression of BCL6. Further provided is a BCL6 inhibitor for use in a method of enhancing immunotherapy in a subject having a proliferative disorder. Also provided are related methods of treatment employing the engineered T cell and/or BCL6 inhibitor.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to the therapeutic uses of compositions containing antibody molecules and functional fragments thereof, e.g antibody molecules and functional fragments capable of binding to tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα), in the topical treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
Abstract:
A process for depositing an inorganic material on a substrate, the process comprising, providing a substrate having a surface, providing a precursor mixture comprising a metal sulfonate, and delivering the precursor mixture to the surface of the substrate, wherein the surface of the substrate is at a substrate temperature of above 450 °C and is sufficient to effect decomposition of the metal sulfonate. The inorganic material may include a metal or a metal oxide. The preferred metal sulfonate is metal triflate.
Abstract:
The invention provides an indazole derivative of formula (1), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or N-oxide thereof, wherein R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 are as defined herein. The indazole derivatives are capable of blockading voltage dependent sodium channels and they are useful in the treatment or prevention of normal tension glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, a motorneurone disease, stroke, spinal cord injury, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease or pain.
Abstract:
The invention provides a method of hyperpolarising a magnetic resonance (MR) agent suitable for use in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) comprising the steps of: a. providing a solution comprising the MR agent suitable for use in MRI or MRS and at least one relaxation agent, the relaxation agent being a paramagnetic metal ion having an electron spin relaxation time of less than 1 x 10 -10 seconds at 20°C; and b. exposing the solution to a temperature of less than 5 K and a magnetic field of at least 1 T. The relaxation agent may, for example, be dysprosium.
Abstract:
The present invention provides histone deacetylase inhibitors of general formula (I), a process for the preparation of such compounds and uses of the compounds in medicine, especially in the treatment of cancers: in which R 1 is an optionally substituted aryl, arylalkyl, heteroaryl, heterocycloalkenyl, cycloalkene ring, cycloalkyl, heterocycloalkyl or a combination of such rings to form a linked or fused ring system, R 2 and R 3 is each independently hydrogen, optionally substituted saturated or unsaturated alkyl, optionally substituted aryl or heteroaryl, or a combination thereof to form a linked or fused ring system, alkoxy, thioalkoxy, hydroxyl, hydroxyalkyl, halo, haloalkyl, cyano, nitro, amino, amido, alkylamino, alkylcarbonyloxy, alkoxycarbonyl, alkylcarbonyl, alkylthiocarbonyl, alkylsulfonylamino, aminosulfonyl, alkylsulfinyl, or alkylsulfonyl, or R 3 is absent when Y stands for O or S, or R 2 and R 3 may be linked together and such that, together with the intervening atoms, they form a 5, 6 or 7-membered ring containing one or more heteroatoms, which may be a heteroaryl ring, heterocycloalkenyl ring, or heterocycloalkyl ring, optionally containing up to 4 heteroatoms, e.g. oxygen, nitrogen or sulphur, which ring may be fused to further rings as part of a fused ring system, and which may bear 1, 2 or 3 substituents, which substituents independently have the same meaning as R 2 on any or all of those rings, Q stands for an (alkyl, which may be unsaturated; aryl, arylalkyl, alkylaryl or alkylarylalkyl, all of which may be optionally substituted; and may be optionally interrupted by O, S, NR, CO, C(N=R), where R may be independently hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, or alkoxy; V is OH, SH, SR, OR, NH2, NHR, NRR, NROH, NHOR, NROR where R may independently be hydrogen or (C 1 -C 6 ) alkyl, Y is oxygen, or sulphur or N, and Z is O, S, S(=O), S(O)2, NR 4 , -N=, CR 4 R 5 , or -C(R4)=, where R 4 and R 5 independently have the same meaning as R 2 .
Abstract:
The position of an interventional device, such as a catheter, introduced into a human body is determined by producing an image of a region of the body into which the device is to be introduced, using 3-dimensional imaging apparatus; displaying the 3-dimensional image on a two-dimensional display screen; detecting the device in the body using a single-plane detecting apparatus, thereby to determine the position of the device substantially in two dimensions; superimposing the image of the region of the body onto an image of the detected device on the display screen in registration therewith; detecting the movement of the device in response to internal movement of the body, thereby to determine the position of the device in said two dimensions; and displaying the position of the device on the image on the display screen.
Abstract:
The use of an aerosol transport operation for producing a nanoparticle film or a nanocomposite film on a substrate, wherein the substrate is heated.