Cell Therapy News Volume 22.12 | Apr 12 2021

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    CTN 22.13 | Apr 12 2021


    Cell Therapy News by STEMCELL Technologies
    Vol. 22.13 – 12 April, 2021
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    CAR Directs T Cell Adaptation to Bile Acids in the Small Intestine

    Scientists identified the nuclear xenobiotic receptor CAR as a regulator of MDR1 expression in T cells that could safeguard against bile acid toxicity and inflammation in the mouse small intestine.
    [Nature]

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    Integrative Bulk and Single-Cell Profiling of Pre-manufacture T-Cell Populations Reveals Factors Mediating Long-Term Persistence of CAR T-Cell Therapy

    The authors extensively characterized the pre manufacture T-cells of 71 patients with B-cell malignancies on trial to receive anti-CD19 CAR T-cell therapy.
    [Cancer Discovery]

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    Genetic In Vivo Engineering of Human T Lymphocytes in Mouse Models

    Investigators describe how to humanize immunodeficient mice with hematopoietic stem cells and precondition and administer the vector stocks.
    [Nature Protocols]

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    Anti-CLL1 Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy in Children with Relapsed/Refractory Acute Myeloid Leukemia

    Scientists tested the safety and efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy in refractory/relapsed acute myeloid leukemia.
    [Clinical Cancer Research]

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    Frequent Loss-of-Heterozygosity in CRISPR-Cas9–Edited Early Human Embryos

    The authors developed computational pipelines to assess single-cell genomics and transcriptomics datasets from OCT4 CRISPR-Cas9–targeted and control human preimplantation embryos
    [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]

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    A Novel Full-Human CD22-CAR T Cell Therapy with Potent Activity against CD22low B-ALL

    Researchers aimed to develop a new CD22-CAR construct with low immunogenicity and potent activity for treating B acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) patients who failed from prior CD22-CAR T cell therapies.
    [Blood Cancer Journal]

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    Long-Term Effects of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Retinal Cell Transplantation in Pde6b Knockout Rats

    Scientists evaluated the long-term effects of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived retinal pigment epithelial and photoreceptor cell transplantation in Pde6b knockout rats to study retinitis pigmentosa.
    [Experimental & Molecular Medicine]

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    Risk Factors and Outcomes of Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage after Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

    Investigators explored the occurrence and prognosis of diffuse alveolar hemorrhage after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.
    [Bone Marrow Transplantation]

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    Hypoxia-Sensing CAR T Cells Provide Safety and Efficacy in Treating Solid Tumors

    Using murine xenograft models, investigators demonstrated that, despite widespread expression of ErbB receptors in healthy organs, the approach provided anti-tumor efficacy without off-tumor toxicity.
    [Cell Reports Medicine]

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    REVIEWS

    CAR-T Cell Therapy: Current Limitations and Potential Strategies

    Scientists discuss recent innovations in CAR-T cell engineering to improve clinical efficacy in both hematological malignancy and solid tumors and strategies to overcome limitations of CAR-T cell therapy in both hematological malignancy and solid tumors.
    [Blood Cancer Journal]

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    CRISPR Technologies for the Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

    The authors review various therapeutic strategies that use CRISPR/Cas to correct or bypass Duchenne muscular dystrophy mutations.
    [Molecular Therapy-Methods & Clinical Development]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    City of Hope Enters Licensing Agreements with CytoImmune Therapeutics Inc. to Develop Portfolio of Chimeric Antigen Receptor-Natural Killer Therapies

    City of Hope and CytoImmune Therapeutics Inc. have entered into worldwide exclusive license agreements to several patent applications related to methods to generate large numbers of fully functional natural killer (NK) cells derived from umbilical cord blood and compositions of chimeric receptors (CAR) for targeting NK cells to tumors.
    [CytoImmune Therapeutics, Inc. (BusinessWire, Inc)]

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    University of Washington – Seattle, Washington, United States

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