It is time for a moonshot to find “Cures” for diabetic retinal disease

SR Levine, P Sapieha, S Dutta, JK Sun… - Progress in Retinal and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Diabetic retinal disease (DRD), the most common complication of diabetes and a leading
cause of blindness in working age individuals, is now understood to be a form of sensory …

Electrotransfer for nucleic acid and protein delivery

A Muralidharan, PE Boukany - Trends in Biotechnology, 2023 - cell.com
Electrotransfer of nucleic acids and proteins has become crucial in biotechnology for gene
augmentation and genome editing. This review explores the applications of electrotransfer …

Genome-wide DNA hypermethylation opposes healing in patients with chronic wounds by impairing epithelial-mesenchymal transition

K Singh, Y Rustagi, AS Abouhashem… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
An extreme chronic wound tissue microenvironment causes epigenetic gene silencing. An
unbiased whole-genome methylome was studied in the wound-edge tissue of patients with …

The start-ups taking nanoneedles into the clinic

R Elnathan, A Tay, NH Voelcker, C Chiappini - Nature Nanotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
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Identification of a physiologic vasculogenic fibroblast state to achieve tissue repair

D Pal, S Ghatak, K Singh, AS Abouhashem… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Tissue injury to skin diminishes miR-200b in dermal fibroblasts. Fibroblasts are widely
reported to directly reprogram into endothelial-like cells and we hypothesized that miR-200b …

[HTML][HTML] Tissue nanotransfection causes tumor regression by its effect on nanovesicle cargo that alters microenvironmental macrophage state

GM Gordillo, PR Guda, K Singh, A Biswas… - Molecular Therapy, 2023 - cell.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are nanovesicles released by all eukaryotic cells. This work
reports the first nanoscale fluorescent visualization of tumor-originating vesicles bearing an …

Endothelial phospholipase Cγ2 improves outcomes of diabetic ischemic limb rescue following VEGF therapy

Y Rustagi, AS Abouhashem, P Verma, SS Verma… - Diabetes, 2022 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Therapeutic vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) replenishment has met with limited
success for the management of critical limb-threatening ischemia. To improve outcomes of …

Driving adult tissue repair via re-engagement of a pathway required for fetal healing

S Ghatak, S Khanna, S Roy, M Thirunavukkarasu… - Molecular Therapy, 2023 - cell.com
Fetal cutaneous wound closure and repair differ from that in adulthood. In this work, we
identify an oxidant stress sensor protein, nonselenocysteine-containing phospholipid …

Transdermal gene delivery

W Zhang, Y Jiao, Z Zhang, Y Zhang, J Yu… - Journal of Controlled …, 2024 - Elsevier
Gene delivery has revolutionized conventional medical approaches to vaccination, cancer,
and autoimmune diseases. However, current gene delivery methods are limited to either …

Co enhances agomir transfection under pathological conditions to inhibit mmp overexpression

X Jin, Z Ou, X Huang, L Shi, R Shi, J Wang, J Yang… - Nano Today, 2023 - Elsevier
Cellular uptake of exogenous nucleic acids is inhibited in pathological tissues accompanied
by excessive expression of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). We show that CO, as a …