Rational design of biomaterials to potentiate cancer thermal therapy

Y Zhu, Q Li, C Wang, Y Hao, N Yang, M Chen… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Cancer thermal therapy, also known as hyperthermia therapy, has long been exploited to
eradicate mass lesions that are now defined as cancer. With the development of …

Multifunctional plant virus nanoparticles: An emerging strategy for therapy of cancer

M Azizi, M Shahgolzari, S Fathi‐Karkan… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer therapy requires sophisticated treatment strategies to obtain the highest success.
Nanotechnology is enabling, revolutionizing, and multidisciplinary concepts to improve …

Engineered living materials for advanced diseases therapy

X Dong, W Wu, P Pan, XZ Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Natural living materials serving as biotherapeutics exhibit great potential for treating various
diseases owing to their immunoactivity, tissue targeting, and other biological activities. In this …

Virus-like particles as nanocarriers for intracellular delivery of biomolecules and compounds

J He, L Yu, X Lin, X Liu, Y Zhang, F Yang, W Deng - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Virus-like particles (VLPs) are nanostructures assemble from viral proteins. Besides widely
used for vaccine development, VLPs have also been explored as nanocarriers for cargo …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive review on phage therapy and phage-based drug development

L Cui, S Watanabe, K Miyanaga, K Kiga, T Sasahara… - Antibiotics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Phage therapy, the use of bacteriophages (phages) to treat bacterial infections, is regaining
momentum as a promising weapon against the rising threat of multidrug-resistant (MDR) …

Viral nanoparticle vaccines against S100A9 reduce lung tumor seeding and metastasis

YH Chung, OA Ortega-Rivera… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Metastatic cancer accounts for 90% of all cancer-related deaths and continues to be one of
the toughest challenges in cancer treatment. A growing body of data indicates that S100A9 …

Virus-like particles for drug delivery: a review of methods and applications

B Ikwuagwu, D Tullman-Ercek - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•Virus-like particles (VLPs) are versatile structuresfor drug-delivery applications.•
Mutations to VLP structural proteins can improve VLP drug delivery.•VLP–cargo loading …

Engineered living bacteriophage-enabled self-adjuvanting hydrogel for remodeling tumor microenvironment and cancer therapy

X Dong, P Pan, Q Zhang, JJ Ye, XZ Zhang - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Due to the complexity and heterogeneity in the tumor microenvironment, the efficacy of
breast cancer treatment has been significantly impeded. Here, we established a living …

Hybrid M13 bacteriophage-based vaccine platform for personalized cancer immunotherapy

X Dong, P Pan, JJ Ye, QL Zhang, XZ Zhang - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Although cancer vaccines exhibit great advances in the field of immunotherapy, developing
an efficient vaccine platform for personalized tumor immunotherapy is still a major …

Viruses as biomaterials

T Yang, Y Chen, Y Xu, X Liu, M Yang, C Mao - Materials Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Viruses lacking the capacity to infect mammals exhibit minimal toxicity, good
biocompatibility, and well-defined structures. As self-organized biomolecular assemblies …