Chemically engineering cells for precision medicine

Y Wang, Z Li, F Mo, TJ Chen-Mayfield, A Saini… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Cell-based therapy holds great potential to address unmet medical needs and revolutionize
the healthcare industry, as demonstrated by several therapeutics such as CAR-T cell …

Engineering the next generation of cell-based therapeutics

CJ Bashor, IB Hilton, H Bandukwala… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Cell-based therapeutics are an emerging modality with the potential to treat many currently
intractable diseases through uniquely powerful modes of action. Despite notable recent …

Biomanufacturing of therapeutic cells: state of the art, current challenges, and future perspectives

KH Roh, RM Nerem, K Roy - Annual Review of Chemical and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Stem cells and other functionally defined therapeutic cells (eg, T cells) are promising to bring
hope of a permanent cure for diseases and disorders that currently cannot be cured by …

Leveraging engineering of cells for drug delivery

Z Chen, Q Hu, Z Gu - Accounts of chemical research, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Cell therapy has become a momentum-gathering treatment strategy for a variety
of diseases, including cancer, diabetes, hemophilia, and cardiomyopathy. However, clinical …

Theranostic cells: emerging clinical applications of synthetic biology

MP McNerney, KE Doiron, TL Ng, TZ Chang… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Synthetic biology seeks to redesign biological systems to perform novel functions in a
predictable manner. Recent advances in bacterial and mammalian cell engineering include …

Non-genetic engineering of cells for drug delivery and cell-based therapy

Q Wang, H Cheng, H Peng, H Zhou, PY Li… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2015 - Elsevier
Cell-based therapy is a promising modality to address many unmet medical needs. In
addition to genetic engineering, material-based, biochemical, and physical science-based …

Bioengineering solutions for manufacturing challenges in CAR T cells

NJ Piscopo, KP Mueller, A Das, P Hematti… - Biotechnology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The next generation of therapeutic products to be approved for the clinic is anticipated to be
cell therapies, termed “living drugs” for their capacity to dynamically and temporally respond …

Manipulating cell fate: dynamic control of cell behaviors on functional platforms

W Li, Z Yan, J Ren, X Qu - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
The cell microenvironment choreographs the behaviors of cells through multiple well-
controlled signals. For basic biological study and cell-based therapies, it is essential to …

Cell-based therapeutics: the next pillar of medicine

MA Fischbach, JA Bluestone, WA Lim - Science translational medicine, 2013 - science.org
Two decades ago, the pharmaceutical industry—long dominated by small-molecule drugs—
was revolutionized by the the advent of biologics. Today, biomedicine sits on the cusp of a …

Expanding the chemical palate of cells by combining systems biology and metabolic engineering

KA Curran, HS Alper - Metabolic engineering, 2012 - Elsevier
The field of Metabolic Engineering has recently undergone a transformation that has led to a
rapid expansion of the chemical palate of cells. Now, it is conceivable to produce nearly any …