mRNA-based therapeutics: powerful and versatile tools to combat diseases

S Qin, X Tang, Y Chen, K Chen, N Fan… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The therapeutic use of messenger RNA (mRNA) has fueled great hope to combat a wide
range of incurable diseases. Recent rapid advances in biotechnology and molecular …

Lipid nanoparticle (LNP) enables mRNA delivery for cancer therapy

Y Zong, Y Lin, T Wei, Q Cheng - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Messenger RNA (mRNA) has received great attention in the prevention and treatment of
various diseases due to the success of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) mRNA …

Non-viral precision T cell receptor replacement for personalized cell therapy

SP Foy, K Jacoby, DA Bota, T Hunter, Z Pan, E Stawiski… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
T cell receptors (TCRs) enable T cells to specifically recognize mutations in cancer cells,–.
Here we developed a clinical-grade approach based on CRISPR–Cas9 non-viral precision …

Combination strategies to maximize the benefits of cancer immunotherapy

S Zhu, T Zhang, L Zheng, H Liu, W Song, D Liu… - Journal of hematology & …, 2021 - Springer
Immunotherapies such as immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) and adoptive cell therapy
(ACT) have revolutionized cancer treatment, especially in patients whose disease was …

Frequent aneuploidy in primary human T cells after CRISPR–Cas9 cleavage

AD Nahmad, E Reuveni, E Goldschmidt, T Tenne… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Multiple clinical trials of allogeneic T cell therapy use site-specific nucleases to disrupt T cell
receptor (TCR) and other genes,,,,–. In this study, using single-cell RNA sequencing, we …

CRISPR–Cas12-based detection of SARS-CoV-2

JP Broughton, X Deng, G Yu, CL Fasching… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
An outbreak of betacoronavirus severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-CoV-2 began in
Wuhan, China in December 2019. COVID-19, the disease associated with SARS-CoV-2 …

The promise and challenge of therapeutic genome editing

JA Doudna - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Genome editing, which involves the precise manipulation of cellular DNA sequences to alter
cell fates and organism traits, has the potential to both improve our understanding of human …

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 …

Applications of genome editing technology in the targeted therapy of human diseases: mechanisms, advances and prospects

H Li, Y Yang, W Hong, M Huang, M Wu… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Based on engineered or bacterial nucleases, the development of genome editing
technologies has opened up the possibility of directly targeting and modifying genomic …

'Off-the-shelf'allogeneic CAR T cells: development and challenges

S Depil, P Duchateau, SA Grupp, G Mufti… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have changed the therapeutic
landscape in haematological malignancies. Nevertheless, the use of allogeneic CAR T cells …