Synthetic biomarkers: a twenty-first century path to early cancer detection

GA Kwong, S Ghosh, L Gamboa, C Patriotis… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Detection of cancer at an early stage when it is still localized improves patient response to
medical interventions for most cancer types. The success of screening tools such as cervical …

Advances in immunotherapy for glioblastoma multiforme

AB Mahmoud, R Ajina, S Aref, M Darwish… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive malignant brain tumor
of the central nervous system and has a very poor prognosis. The current standard of care …

Strategies for targeting gene therapy in cancer cells with tumor-specific promoters

M Montaño-Samaniego, DM Bravo-Estupiñan… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cancer is the second cause of death worldwide, surpassed only by cardiovascular diseases,
due to the lack of early diagnosis, and high relapse rate after conventional therapies …

Multi-input RNAi-based logic circuit for identification of specific cancer cells

Z Xie, L Wroblewska, L Prochazka, R Weiss… - Science, 2011 - science.org
Engineered biological systems that integrate multi-input sensing, sophisticated information
processing, and precisely regulated actuation in living cells could be useful in a variety of …

Spatial control of in vivo CRISPR–Cas9 genome editing via nanomagnets

H Zhu, L Zhang, S Tong, CM Lee… - Nature biomedical …, 2019 - nature.com
The potential of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)–
CRISPR associated protein 9 (Cas9)-based therapeutic genome editing is hampered by …

Attenuated adenosine-to-inosine editing of microRNA-376a* promotes invasiveness of glioblastoma cells

Y Choudhury, FC Tay, DH Lam… - The Journal of …, 2012 - Am Soc Clin Investig
In the human brain, microRNAs (miRNAs) from the microRNA-376 (miR-376) cluster
undergo programmed “seed” sequence modifications by adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) …

Reduced expression of brain-enriched microRNAs in glioblastomas permits targeted regulation of a cell death gene

RL Skalsky, BR Cullen - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Glioblastoma is a highly aggressive malignant tumor involving glial cells in the human brain.
We used high-throughput sequencing to comprehensively profile the small RNAs expressed …

Vectors and strategies for nonviral cancer gene therapy

J Pahle, W Walther - Expert Opinion on Biological Therapy, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: This review presents recent developments in the use of nonviral vectors and
transfer technologies in cancer gene therapy. Tremendous progress has been made in …

Baculovirus as a gene delivery vector: recent understandings of molecular alterations in transduced cells and latest applications

CY Chen, CY Lin, GY Chen, YC Hu - Biotechnology advances, 2011 - Elsevier
Baculovirus infects insects in nature and is non-pathogenic to humans, but can transduce a
broad range of mammalian and avian cells. Thanks to the biosafety, large cloning capacity …

[HTML][HTML] MicroRNA-regulated viral vectors for gene therapy

A Geisler, H Fechner - World journal of experimental medicine, 2016 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Safe and effective gene therapy approaches require targeted tissue-specific transfer of a
therapeutic transgene. Besides traditional approaches, such as transcriptional and …