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 …

Cell-based and stem-cell-based treatments for spinal cord injury: evidence from clinical trials

CM Zipser, JJ Cragg, JD Guest, MG Fehlings… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Spinal cord injury is a severely disabling neurological condition leading to impaired mobility,
pain, and autonomic dysfunction. Most often, a single traumatic event, such as a traffic or …

Developments in stem cell-derived islet replacement therapy for treating type 1 diabetes

NJ Hogrebe, M Ishahak, JR Millman - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The generation of islet-like endocrine clusters from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs)
has the potential to provide an unlimited source of insulin-producing β cells for the treatment …

CAR-neutrophil mediated delivery of tumor-microenvironment responsive nanodrugs for glioblastoma chemo-immunotherapy

Y Chang, X Cai, R Syahirah, Y Yao, Y Xu, G Jin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is one of the most aggressive and lethal solid tumors in human. While
efficacious therapeutics, such as emerging chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells and …

Next-generation regulatory T cell therapy

LMR Ferreira, YD Muller, JA Bluestone… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2019 - nature.com
Regulatory T cells (Treg cells) are a small subset of immune cells that are dedicated to
curbing excessive immune activation and maintaining immune homeostasis. Accordingly …

Engineered extracellular vesicles as versatile ribonucleoprotein delivery vehicles for efficient and safe CRISPR genome editing

X Yao, P Lyu, K Yoo, MK Yadav… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Transient delivery of CRISPR‐based genome editing effectors is important to reduce off‐
target effects and immune responses. Recently extracellular vesicles (EVs) have been …

Engineering islets from stem cells for advanced therapies of diabetes

J Siehler, AK Blöchinger, M Meier… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder that affects more than 460 million people
worldwide. Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is caused by autoimmune destruction of β-cells, whereas …

[HTML][HTML] EZH1 repression generates mature iPSC-derived CAR T cells with enhanced antitumor activity

R Jing, I Scarfo, MA Najia, EL da Rocha, A Han… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) provide a potentially unlimited resource for
cell therapies, but the derivation of mature cell types remains challenging. The histone …

Generation of hypoimmunogenic T cells from genetically engineered allogeneic human induced pluripotent stem cells

B Wang, S Iriguchi, M Waseda, N Ueda… - Nature biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
Avoiding the immune rejection of transplanted T cells is central to the success of allogeneic
cancer immunotherapies. One solution to protecting T-cell grafts from immune rejection …

Endowing universal CAR T-cell with immune-evasive properties using TALEN-gene editing

S Jo, S Das, A Williams, AS Chretien… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Universal CAR T-cell therapies are poised to revolutionize cancer treatment and to improve
patient outcomes. However, realizing these advantages in an allogeneic setting requires …