CRISPR/Cas9 therapeutics: progress and prospects

T Li, Y Yang, H Qi, W Cui, L Zhang, X Fu, X He… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated
protein 9 (Cas9) gene-editing technology is the ideal tool of the future for treating diseases …

Review on strategies and technologies for exosome isolation and purification

J Chen, P Li, T Zhang, Z Xu, X Huang… - … in bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Exosomes, a nano-sized subtype of extracellular vesicles secreted from almost all living
cells, are capable of transferring cell-specific constituents of the source cell to the recipient …

Extracellular vesicles as a next-generation drug delivery platform

IK Herrmann, MJA Wood, G Fuhrmann - Nature nanotechnology, 2021 - nature.com
Extracellular-vesicle-based cell-to-cell communication is conserved across all kingdoms of
life. There is compelling evidence that extracellular vesicles are involved in major (patho) …

The exosome journey: from biogenesis to uptake and intracellular signalling

S Gurung, D Perocheau, L Touramanidou… - Cell Communication and …, 2021 - Springer
The use of exosomes in clinical settings is progressively becoming a reality, as clinical trials
testing exosomes for diagnostic and therapeutic applications are generating remarkable …

Advances in local therapy for glioblastoma—taking the fight to the tumour

TS van Solinge, L Nieland, EA Chiocca… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Despite advances in neurosurgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, glioblastoma remains
one of the most treatment-resistant CNS malignancies, and the tumour inevitably recurs. The …

The role of the immune microenvironment in bone, cartilage, and soft tissue regeneration: from mechanism to therapeutic opportunity

Y Xiong, BB Mi, Z Lin, YQ Hu, L Yu, KK Zha… - Military Medical …, 2022 - Springer
Bone, cartilage, and soft tissue regeneration is a complex spatiotemporal process recruiting
a variety of cell types, whose activity and interplay must be precisely mediated for effective …

Lipids and lipid derivatives for RNA delivery

Y Zhang, C Sun, C Wang, KE Jankovic… - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
RNA-based therapeutics have shown great promise in treating a broad spectrum of
diseases through various mechanisms including knockdown of pathological genes …

Wound healing: from passive to smart dressings

M Farahani, A Shafiee - Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The universal increase in the number of patients with nonhealing skin wounds imposes a
huge social and economic burden on the patients and healthcare systems. Although, the …

Strategies for delivering therapeutics across the blood–brain barrier

GC Terstappen, AH Meyer, RD Bell… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Achieving sufficient delivery across the blood–brain barrier is a key challenge in the
development of drugs to treat central nervous system (CNS) disorders. This is particularly …

Reversing insufficient photothermal therapy-induced tumor relapse and metastasis by regulating cancer-associated fibroblasts

X Li, T Yong, Z Wei, N Bie, X Zhang, G Zhan, J Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Insufficient tumor accumulation and distribution of photosensitizers as well as low antitumor
immunity severely restrict the therapeutic efficacy of photothermal therapy (PTT). Cancer …