Abstract: Provided herein are dendrimer-targeting agent conjugates comprising a dendrimer, the dendrimer comprising a core unit and lysine or lysine analogue building units, a HER2 targeting agent which is a peptidic moiety having a molecular weight of up to about 80 kDa and comprising an antigen-binding site, which is covalently linked by a spacer group, and a therapeutic agent which is covalently linked to a surface building unit of the dendrimer. Also provided herein are compositions comprising the conjugates, and therapeutic methods using the conjugates, particularly for treating cancer.

Abstract: Highly functionalized, porous organosilica particles and methods of their synthesis are described that employ high amounts of functional silane such as 3-mercaptopropyl trimethoxysilane. Silane particle diameters are controlled from less than 1 ?m to over 100 ?m. The particles have a high surface area due to their advantageous internal structures, which consist of large pores, typically up to 10 ?m that are linked by small channels of typically about 20 nm diameter. Isothiocyanate modified fluorescent dyes can enter and react with thiol groups inside the pores. The invention also provides clear silica shells of controlled thicknesses to protect fluorescent signals and provide an independent parameter for distinguishing particle types based on light scattering off different sized particles. The particles are stable and useful for many purposes, particularly for optical bar coding in combinatorial synthesis of polymers such as nucleic acid, polypeptide, and other synthesized molecules.

Abstract: The invention relates to a multilayer polymer assembly comprising polymer layers covalently bonded together by crosslinks comprising a cyclic moiety, and to processes for the preparation thereof.

Abstract: The invention features a sort computer which interfaces with a sorting device in order to control the sorting of beads on a bead by bead basis. The invention further features novel methods for the directed synthesis of encoded libraries of oligomers, e.g., oligonucleotides, on beads. These methods allow the synthesis of libraries that are sufficiently large to permit complex genomic analyses to be carried out. New methods of using the encoded libraries also are described.

Abstract: Highly functionalized, porous organosilica particles and methods of their synthesis are described that employ high amounts of functional silane such as 3-mercaptopropyl trimethoxysilane. Silane particle diameters are controlled from less than 1 &mgr;m to over 100 &mgr;m. The particles have a high surface area due to their advantageous internal structures, which consist of large pores, typically up to 10 &mgr;m that are linked by small channels of typically about 20 nm diameter. Isothiocyanate modified fluorescent dyes can enter and react with thiol groups inside the pores. The invention also provides clear silica shells of controlled thicknesses to protect fluorescent signals and provide an independent parameter for distinguishing particle types based on light scattering off different sized particles. The particles are stable and useful for many purposes, particularly for optical bar coding in combinatorial synthesis of polymers such as nucleic acid, polypeptide, and other synthesized molecules.