DNA vaccines—how far from clinical use?

D Hobernik, M Bros - International journal of molecular sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Two decades ago successful transfection of antigen presenting cells (APC) in vivo was
demonstrated which resulted in the induction of primary adaptive immune responses. Due to …

Biomass from microalgae: the potential of domestication towards sustainable biofactories

M Benedetti, V Vecchi, S Barera, L Dall'Osto - Microbial Cell Factories, 2018 - Springer
Interest in bulk biomass from microalgae, for the extraction of high-value nutraceuticals, bio-
products, animal feed and as a source of renewable fuels, is high. Advantages of microalgal …

Design and testing of a humanized porcine donor for xenotransplantation

RP Anand, JV Layer, D Heja, T Hirose, G Lassiter… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Recent human decedent model studies, and compassionate xenograft use have explored
the promise of porcine organs for human transplantation. To proceed to human studies, a …

Shared structural mechanisms of general anaesthetics and benzodiazepines

JJ Kim, A Gharpure, J Teng, Y Zhuang, RJ Howard… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Most general anaesthetics and classical benzodiazepine drugs act through positive
modulation of γ-aminobutyric acid type A (GABAA) receptors to dampen neuronal activity in …

Improving cytidine and adenine base editors by expression optimization and ancestral reconstruction

LW Koblan, JL Doman, C Wilson, JM Levy, T Tay… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Base editors enable targeted single-nucleotide conversions in genomic DNA. Here we show
that expression levels are a bottleneck in base-editing efficiency. We optimize cytidine (BE4) …

IL-7 and CCL19 expression in CAR-T cells improves immune cell infiltration and CAR-T cell survival in the tumor

K Adachi, Y Kano, T Nagai, N Okuyama… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Infiltration, accumulation, and survival of chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cells in solid
tumors is crucial for tumor clearance. We engineered CAR-T cells to express interleukin (IL) …

LAMP2A regulates the loading of proteins into exosomes

JV Ferreira, A da Rosa Soares, J Ramalho… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Exosomes are extracellular vesicles of endosomal origin that are released by practically all
cell types across metazoans. Exosomes are active vehicles of intercellular communication …

mScarlet: a bright monomeric red fluorescent protein for cellular imaging

DS Bindels, L Haarbosch, L Van Weeren, M Postma… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
We report the engineering of mScarlet, a truly monomeric red fluorescent protein with record
brightness, quantum yield (70%) and fluorescence lifetime (3.9 ns). We developed mScarlet …

Systematic comparison of 2A peptides for cloning multi-genes in a polycistronic vector

Z Liu, O Chen, JBJ Wall, M Zheng, Y Zhou, L Wang… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Cloning of multiple genes in a single vector has greatly facilitated both basic and
translational studies that require co-expression of multiple factors or multi-units of complex …

Locoregionally administered B7-H3-targeted CAR T cells for treatment of atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors

J Theruvath, E Sotillo, CW Mount, CM Graef… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumors (ATRTs) typically arise in the central nervous system
(CNS) of children under 3 years of age. Despite intensive multimodal therapy (surgery …