Overcoming on-target, off-tumour toxicity of CAR T cell therapy for solid tumours

CL Flugel, RG Majzner, G Krenciute, G Dotti… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Therapies with genetically modified T cells that express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs)
specific for CD19 or B cell maturation antigen (BCMA) are approved to treat certain B cell …

Engineering living therapeutics with synthetic biology

A Cubillos-Ruiz, T Guo, A Sokolovska… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
The steadfast advance of the synthetic biology field has enabled scientists to use genetically
engineered cells, instead of small molecules or biologics, as the basis for the development …

Cancer-cell stiffening via cholesterol depletion enhances adoptive T-cell immunotherapy

K Lei, A Kurum, M Kaynak, L Bonati, Y Han… - Nature biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
Malignant transformation and tumour progression are associated with cancer-cell softening.
Yet how the biomechanics of cancer cells affects T-cell-mediated cytotoxicity and thus the …

Delivery technologies for cancer immunotherapy

RS Riley, CH June, R Langer, MJ Mitchell - Nature reviews Drug …, 2019 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has become a powerful clinical strategy for treating cancer. The number of
immunotherapy drug approvals has been increasing, with numerous treatments in clinical …

Boosting checkpoint immunotherapy with biomaterials

L Liu, Y Pan, C Zhao, P Huang, X Chen, L Rao - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
The immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy has revolutionized the field of cancer
treatment, while low response rates and systemic toxicity limit its clinical outcomes. With the …

Nano-optogenetic engineering of CAR T cells for precision immunotherapy with enhanced safety

NT Nguyen, K Huang, H Zeng, J Jing, R Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell-based immunotherapy, approved by the US Food
and Drug Administration, has shown curative potential in patients with haematological …

Ionizable lipid nanoparticle-mediated mRNA delivery for human CAR T cell engineering

MM Billingsley, N Singh, P Ravikumar, R Zhang… - Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy relies on the ex vivo manipulation of patient
T cells to create potent, cancer-targeting therapies, shown to be capable of inducing …

Control of the activity of CAR-T cells within tumours via focused ultrasound

Y Wu, Y Liu, Z Huang, X Wang, Z Jin, J Li… - Nature biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
Focused ultrasound can deliver energy safely and non-invasively into tissues at depths of
centimetres. Here we show that the genetics and cellular functions of chimeric antigen …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrasound neuromodulation: a review of results, mechanisms and safety

J Blackmore, S Shrivastava, J Sallet, CR Butler… - Ultrasound in medicine …, 2019 - Elsevier
Ultrasonic neuromodulation is a rapidly growing field, in which low-intensity ultrasound (US)
is delivered to nervous system tissue, resulting in transient modulation of neural activity. This …

Applications of focused ultrasound-mediated blood-brain barrier opening

CM Gorick, VR Breza, KM Nowak, VWT Cheng… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
The blood brain barrier (BBB) plays a critically important role in the regulation of central
nervous system (CNS) homeostasis, but also represents a major limitation to treatments of …