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 …

[HTML][HTML] Solid implantable devices for sustained drug delivery

E Magill, S Demartis, E Gavini, AD Permana… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Implantable drug delivery systems (IDDS) are an attractive alternative to conventional drug
administration routes. Oral and injectable drug administration are the most common routes …

Identification of unique cell type responses in pancreatic islets to stress

MM Maestas, M Ishahak, P Augsornworawat… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Diabetes involves the death or dysfunction of pancreatic β-cells. Analysis of bulk sequencing
from human samples and studies using in vitro and in vivo models suggest that endoplasmic …

Advances in pancreatic islet transplantation sites for the treatment of diabetes

F Cayabyab, LR Nih, E Yoshihara - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Diabetes is a complex disease that affects over 400 million people worldwide. The life-long
insulin injections and continuous blood glucose monitoring required in type 1 diabetes …

PDX1 is the cornerstone of pancreatic β-cell functions and identity

N Ebrahim, K Shakirova… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Diabetes has been a worldwide healthcare problem for many years. Current methods of
treating diabetes are still largely directed at symptoms, aiming to control the manifestations …

PAX4 loss of function increases diabetes risk by altering human pancreatic endocrine cell development

HH Lau, NAJ Krentz, F Abaitua… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The coding variant (p. Arg192His) in the transcription factor PAX4 is associated with an
altered risk for type 2 diabetes (T2D) in East Asian populations. In mice, Pax4 is essential for …

[HTML][HTML] Making human pancreatic islet organoids: Progresses on the cell origins, biomaterials and three-dimensional technologies

L Jiang, Y Shen, Y Liu, L Zhang, W Jiang - Theranostics, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Diabetes is one of the most socially challenging health concerns. Even though islet
transplantation has shown promise for insulin-dependent diabetes, there is still no effective …

FALCON systematically interrogates free fatty acid biology and identifies a novel mediator of lipotoxicity

N Wieder, JC Fried, C Kim, EH Sidhom, MR Brown… - Cell metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
Cellular exposure to free fatty acids (FFAs) is implicated in the pathogenesis of obesity-
associated diseases. However, there are no scalable approaches to comprehensively …

Genetic enhancement: an avenue to combat aging-related diseases

Y Cai, Z Ji, S Wang, W Zhang, J Qu, JCI Belmonte… - Life …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Aging is a major risk factor for multiple diseases, including cardiovascular diseases,
neurodegenerative disorders, osteoarthritis, and cancer. It is accompanied by the …

Recent progress in modeling and treating diabetes using stem cell-derived islets

MM Maestas, MH Bui, JR Millman - Stem Cells Translational …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Stem cell-derived islets (SC-islets) offer the potential to be an unlimited source of cells for
disease modeling and the treatment of diabetes. SC-islets can be genetically modified …