CAR T therapy beyond cancer: the evolution of a living drug

DJ Baker, Z Arany, JA Baur, JA Epstein, CH June - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Engineering a patient's own T cells to selectively target and eliminate tumour cells has cured
patients with untreatable haematologic cancers. These results have energized the field to …

T cells in health and disease

L Sun, Y Su, A Jiao, X Wang, B Zhang - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
T cells are crucial for immune functions to maintain health and prevent disease. T cell
development occurs in a stepwise process in the thymus and mainly generates CD4+ and …

Engineered cellular immunotherapies in cancer and beyond

AV Finck, T Blanchard, CP Roselle, G Golinelli… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
This year marks the tenth anniversary of cell therapy with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-
modified T cells for refractory leukemia. The widespread commercial approval of genetically …

Autoantibodies in neurological disease

H Prüss - Nature reviews immunology, 2021 - nature.com
The realization that autoantibodies can contribute to dysfunction of the brain has brought
about a paradigm shift in neurological diseases over the past decade, offering up important …

Recent advances in hyperthermia therapy‐based synergistic immunotherapy

M Chang, Z Hou, M Wang, C Li, J Lin - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The past decades have witnessed hyperthermia therapy (HTT) as an emerging strategy
against malignant tumors. Nanomaterial‐based photothermal therapy (PTT) and magnetic …

Concepts of artificial intelligence for computer-assisted drug discovery

X Yang, Y Wang, R Byrne, G Schneider… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Artificial intelligence (AI), and, in particular, deep learning as a subcategory of AI, provides
opportunities for the discovery and development of innovative drugs. Various machine …

γδ T cells: origin and fate, subsets, diseases and immunotherapy

Y Hu, Q Hu, Y Li, L Lu, Z Xiang, Z Yin… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
The intricacy of diseases, shaped by intrinsic processes like immune system exhaustion and
hyperactivation, highlights the potential of immune renormalization as a promising strategy …

Human chimeric antigen receptor macrophages for cancer immunotherapy

M Klichinsky, M Ruella, O Shestova, XM Lu… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has shown promise in hematologic
malignancies, but its application to solid tumors has been challenging,,–. Given the unique …

Precision targeting of autoantigen-specific B cells in muscle-specific tyrosine kinase myasthenia gravis with chimeric autoantibody receptor T cells

S Oh, X Mao, S Manfredo-Vieira, J Lee, D Patel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Muscle-specific tyrosine kinase myasthenia gravis (MuSK MG) is an autoimmune disease
that causes life-threatening muscle weakness due to anti-MuSK autoantibodies that disrupt …

The future of engineered immune cell therapies

DJ Irvine, MV Maus, DJ Mooney, WW Wong - Science, 2022 - science.org
Immune cells are being engineered to recognize and respond to disease states, acting as a
“living drug” when transferred into patients. Therapies based on engineered immune cells …