Abstract: The present invention provides the following compounds, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions containing said compounds useful as a Notch pathway signaling inhibitor for the treatment of named cancers, sensorineural hearing loss caused by auditory hair cell loss, and inducing auditory hair cell generation.

Abstract: The present invention provides the following compounds, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions containing said compounds useful as a Notch pathway signaling inhibitor for the treatment of named cancers, sensorineural hearing loss caused by auditory hair cell loss, and inducing auditory hair cell generation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of introducing an expressible non-viral nucleic acid sequence into a T lymphocyte cell, a B-cell, or a mast cell, comprising contacting the cell with a viral particle containing a modified viral coat proteins containing adenoviral amino acid sequence from an adenoviral serotype Ad35 or Ad51 fiber protein, arrays of subpopulations of cells made by such methods, and a method for a ex vivo transduction of a population of cells.

Abstract: Isolated polynucleotides, and vectors including the same, are disclosed as useful for down-regulation of specific RNA in cells, including a first sequence of about 17 to about 23 nucleotides, complementary to said RNA, and linked to a second sequence capable of forming a loop when said second sequence is RNA. The polynucleotides include self-complementing single-stranded polynucleotides, including a third sequence linked by said second sequence where all nucleotides in said first and said third sequences are complementary. Functional genomic, diagnostic and therapeutic methods are disclosed that involve reducing the amount of a unique RNA sequence in cells using a vector encoding the self-complementing polynucleotide including a first sequence complementary to said RNA sequence. Methods are also disclosed for preparing the polynucleotides, vectors, libraries of vectors, and the temporary knock-down of proteins, such as lethal proteins, during virus or recombinant protein production.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of introducing an expressible non-viral nucleic acid sequence into a cell having a common non-universal binding receptor and selected from T lymphocytes, B-, and mast cells, comprising contacting said cell with a viral vector comprising a recombinant nucleic acid sequence containing sequence for said expressible non-viral nucleic acid and comprising a modified viral coat consisting of native viral coat proteins and modified coat protein containing adenoviral amino acid sequence from an adenoviral serotype 35 or 51 fibre protein, wherein said adenoviral sequence of said modified protein is a ligand for said binding receptor. Alternatively said vector comprises a sequence coding for a viral capsid consisting of native adenoviral capsid proteins and modified capsid protein containing amino acid sequence from an adenoviral serotype other than the serotype of said native capsid proteins, wherein said modified protein is a ligand for said binding receptor.

Abstract: The invention relates to the field of molecular genetics and medicine. In particular, the present invention relates to the field of functional genomics, i.e., to a method for the identification of genes that function in regulating bone homeostasis, such as the induction of osteogenesis.