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 …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering CAR-T cells for next-generation cancer therapy

M Hong, JD Clubb, YY Chen - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
T cells engineered to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) with tumor specificity have
shown remarkable success in treating patients with hematologic malignancies and …

Transient rest restores functionality in exhausted CAR-T cells through epigenetic remodeling

EW Weber, KR Parker, E Sotillo, RC Lynn… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION More than 50% of patients treated with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)–T
cells for B cell malignancies develop progressive disease after CAR therapy, and these …

Enhanced safety and efficacy of protease-regulated CAR-T cell receptors

L Labanieh, RG Majzner, D Klysz, E Sotillo, CJ Fisher… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Regulatable CAR platforms could circumvent toxicities associated with CAR-T therapy, but
existing systems have shortcomings including leakiness and attenuated activity. Here, we …

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 …

Engineering microrobots for targeted cancer therapies from a medical perspective

CK Schmidt, M Medina-Sánchez… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Systemic chemotherapy remains the backbone of many cancer treatments. Due to its
untargeted nature and the severe side effects it can cause, numerous nanomedicine …

CAR T cell therapy for solid tumors: bright future or dark reality?

J Wagner, E Wickman, C DeRenzo, S Gottschalk - Molecular therapy, 2020 - cell.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has garnered significant excitement due to
its success for hematological malignancies in clinical studies leading to the US Food and …

The emerging landscape of immune cell therapies

EW Weber, MV Maus, CL Mackall - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Cell therapies present an entirely new paradigm in drug development. Within this class,
immune cell therapies are among the most advanced, having already demonstrated …

The current landscape of CAR T-cell therapy for solid tumors: Mechanisms, research progress, challenges, and counterstrategies

A Daei Sorkhabi, L Mohamed Khosroshahi… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The successful outcomes of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy in treating
hematologic cancers have increased the previously unprecedented excitement to use this …

[HTML][HTML] CAR-T design: Elements and their synergistic function

J Jayaraman, MP Mellody, AJ Hou, RP Desai… - …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells use re-engineered cell surface receptors to
specifically bind to and lyse oncogenic cells. Two clinically approved CAR-T–cell therapies …