Abstract: The present invention provides methods, compositions, and kits for preparing and using adeno associated virus and baculovirus. The methods for producing adeno associated virus and baculovirus particles include using histidine rich peptides and other cationic peptides as transfection reagents. The adeno associated virus are pseudotyped with capsids, in particular for use in gene therapy and/or diagnostics. The baculovirus are also used to prepare adeno associated virus.

Abstract: The present invention provides modified alphaviruses and compositions, methods, and kits for preparing and using, in particular AAV viral particles pseudotyped with capsids, in particular for use in gene therapy and/or diagnostics.

Abstract: Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) variants with a greater phenylalanine-converting activity and/or a reduced immunogenicity as compared to a wild-type PAL for therapeutic uses, including the treatment of adolescent subjects having PKU.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides for use of variants of C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP), and novel pharmaceutical compositions and formulations comprising CNP variant peptides for the treatment of skeletal dysplasias, one or more symptoms of skeletal dysplasias, such as long bone growth or growth velocity, and other disorders having a skeletal dysplasia and/or CNP-associated symptom or component.

Abstract: Provided herein are phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) variants produced by prokaryotes, wherein such prokaryotic PAL variant has a greater phenylalanine-converting activity and/or a reduced immunogenicity as compared to a wild-type PAL. Further provided are compositions of prokaryotic PAL and biologically active fragments, mutants, variants or analogs thereof, as well as methods for the production, purification, formulation, and use of such compositions for industrial and therapeutic purposes, e.g., treating hyperphenylalaninemia, including phenylketonuria, and other disorders, including cancer.

Abstract: The present invention provides process for enriching adeno-associated virus particles using anion exchange chromatography and zonal ultracentrifugation.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid proteins, AAV particles comprising a novel capsid protein, polynucleotides encoding these capsid proteins and AAV vectors expressing these capsid proteins. The invention also relates to methods of making the herein described AAV vectors expressing the novel capsid proteins of the invention and associated therapeutic uses of thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid proteins, AAV particles comprising a novel capsid protein, polynucleotides encoding these capsid proteins and AAV vectors expressing these capsid proteins. The invention also relates to methods of making the herein described AAV vectors expressing the novel capsid proteins of the invention and associated therapeutic uses of thereof.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods of treating phenylketonuria by normalizing levels of amino acids, neurotransmitters, and neurotransmitter metabolites in a subject having phenylketonuria.

Abstract: The invention provides adeno-associated virus (AAV) Factor VIII (FVIII)-encoding/expressing vectors and virus, including AAV FVIII vectors with high expression activity and AAV FVIII vectors that express full-length or truncated functional FVIII protein. The invention also relates to methods of making the herein described AAV FVIII vectors, recombinant AAV FVIII virus particles comprising or expressing such vectors, associated pharmaceutical formulations comprising the same and therapeutic uses thereof.

Abstract: Described herein are compounds, methods of making such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments containing such compounds, and methods of using such compounds to treat or prevent diseases or disorders associated with a defect in glyoxylate metabolism, for example a disease or disorder associated with the enzyme glycolate oxidase (GO) or alterations in oxalate metabolism. Such diseases or disorders include, for example, disorders of glyoxylate metabolism, including primary hyperoxaluria, that are associated with production of excessive amounts of oxalate.

Abstract: Described herein are compounds, methods of making such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments containing such compounds, and methods of using such compounds to treat or prevent diseases or disorders associated with the enzyme glycolate oxidase (GO). Such diseases or disorders include, for example, disorders of glyoxylate metabolism, including primary hyperoxaluria, that are associated with production of excessive amounts of oxalate.

Abstract: Described herein are compounds, methods of making such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments containing such compounds, and methods of using such compounds to treat or prevent diseases or disorders associated with the enzyme glycolate oxidase (GO). Such diseases or disorders include, for example, disorders of glyoxylate metabolism, including primary hyperoxaluria, that are associated with production of excessive amounts of oxalate.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides for use of variants of C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP), and novel pharmaceutical compositions and formulations comprising CNP variant peptides for the treatment of skeletal dysplasias, one or more symptoms of skeletal dysplasias, such as long bone growth or growth velocity, and other disorders having a skeletal dysplasia and/or CNP-associated symptom or component.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid proteins, AAV particles comprising a novel capsid protein, polynucleotides encoding these capsid proteins and AAV vectors expressing these capsid proteins. The invention also relates to methods of making the herein described AAV vectors expressing the novel capsid proteins of the invention and associated therapeutic uses of thereof.

Abstract: Containers are provided herein for facilitating freezing, thawing, and/or storage of products that may be perishable, such as pharmaceuticals. The containers can include shells that enclose the product, and that include apertures permitting flow of a fluid through the containers' internal volume. The temperature of the fluid can be selected so as to freeze or thaw the product. The container optionally can include pressure building members that control the flow of the fluid through the containers' inner volume, e.g., increase the fluid flow rate and thus increase the rate with which the fluid is frozen or thawed.

Abstract: Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) variants with a greater phenylalanine-converting activity and/or a reduced immunogenicity as compared to a wild-type PAL for therapeutic uses, including the treatment of adolescent subjects having PKU.

Abstract: Provided herein are phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) variants produced by prokaryotes, wherein such prokaryotic PAL variant has a greater phenylalanine-converting activity and/or a reduced immunogenicity as compared to a wild-type PAL. Further provided are compositions of prokaryotic PAL and biologically active fragments, mutants, variants or analogs thereof, as well as methods for the production, purification, formulation, and use of such compositions for industrial and therapeutic purposes, e.g., treating hyperphenylalaninemia, including phenylketonuria, and other disorders, including cancer.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to the use of size exclusion chromatography and/or size exclusion chromatography with multi-angle light scattering technology to characterize viral particles such as adeno-associated virus and lentivirus particles. The disclosed methods are also useful for estimating the titer of viral particles, determining the integrity of the viral particles and estimating the amount of DNA encapsidated in the viral particle.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of generating multiplexed genetically modified animals, for example, porcine endogenous retrovirus (PERV)-inactivated pigs. The disclosure also provides methods of improving the birth rate of multiplexed genetically modified animals. In some embodiments, the present closure is concerned with the generation and utilization of porcine cells in which porcine endogenous retroviral (PERV) elements have been inactivated. In sonic embodiments, the PERV-free or PERV-reduced porcine cells are cloned to produce porcine embryos. In some embodiments, the PERV-free or PERV-reduced embryos may be grown into adult swine from which organs and/or tissues may be extracted and used for such purposes as xenotransplantation into non-porcine animals such as humans.