mRNA-based cancer therapeutics

C Liu, Q Shi, X Huang, S Koo, N Kong, W Tao - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Due to the fact that mRNA technology allows the production of diverse vaccines and
treatments in a shorter time frame and with reduced expense compared to conventional …

Engineering strategies to enhance oncolytic viruses in cancer immunotherapy

Y Tian, D Xie, L Yang - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Oncolytic viruses (OVs) are emerging as potentially useful platforms in treatment methods for
patients with tumors. They preferentially target and kill tumor cells, leaving healthy cells …

Intratumoural administration and tumour tissue targeting of cancer immunotherapies

I Melero, E Castanon, M Alvarez, S Champiat… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Immune-checkpoint inhibitors and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are
revolutionizing oncology and haematology practice. With these and other immunotherapies …

Engineering strategies to overcome the current roadblocks in CAR T cell therapy

S Rafiq, CS Hackett, RJ Brentjens - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2020 - nature.com
T cells genetically engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) have proven—
and impressive—therapeutic activity in patients with certain subtypes of B cell leukaemia or …

Localized interleukin-12 for cancer immunotherapy

KG Nguyen, MR Vrabel, SM Mantooth… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Interleukin-12 (IL-12) is a potent, pro-inflammatory type 1 cytokine that has long been
studied as a potential immunotherapy for cancer. Unfortunately, IL-12's remarkable …

Cytokines in clinical cancer immunotherapy

P Berraondo, MF Sanmamed, MC Ochoa… - British journal of …, 2019 - nature.com
Cytokines are soluble proteins that mediate cell-to-cell communication. Based on the
discovery of the potent anti-tumour activities of several pro-inflammatory cytokines in animal …

Inhalable extracellular vesicle delivery of IL-12 mRNA to treat lung cancer and promote systemic immunity

M Liu, S Hu, N Yan, KD Popowski, K Cheng - Nature Nanotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
Lung carcinoma is one of the most common cancers and has one of the lowest survival rates
in the world. Cytokines such as interleukin-12 (IL-12) have demonstrated considerable …

Multidimensional control of therapeutic human cell function with synthetic gene circuits

HS Li, DV Israni, KA Gagnon, KA Gan, MH Raymond… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Synthetic gene circuits that precisely control human cell function could expand the
capabilities of gene-and cell-based therapies. However, platforms for developing circuits in …

Intratumoral IL-12 delivery empowers CAR-T cell immunotherapy in a pre-clinical model of glioblastoma

G Agliardi, AR Liuzzi, A Hotblack, D De Feo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive form of primary brain
cancer, for which effective therapies are urgently needed. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) …

Targeting advanced prostate cancer with STEAP1 chimeric antigen receptor T cell and tumor-localized IL-12 immunotherapy

V Bhatia, NV Kamat, TE Pariva, LT Wu, A Tsao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Six transmembrane epithelial antigen of the prostate 1 (STEAP1) is a cell surface antigen for
therapeutic targeting in prostate cancer. Here, we report broad expression of STEAP1 …