| Vol. 22.21 – 14 June, 2021 |
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| The authors examined the safety and efficacy of human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cell infusion for immune non-responder patients with chronic HIV-1 infection, who represented an unmet medical need even in the era of efficient antiretroviral therapy. [Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy] |
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| PUBLICATIONSRanked by the impact factor of the journal |
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| Scientists observed monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) induction in mouse and human tumor-associated macrophages (tAMs). MAO-A-deficient mice exhibit decreased TAM immunosuppressive functions corresponding with enhanced antitumor immunity. [Nature Communications] |
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| Researchers performed an integrative analysis of the mutational and transcriptional profiles of large cohorts of non-small-cell lung cancer patients and found that epigenetic downregulation of B2M was common. [Immunology] |
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| Scientists conducted dual tumor and T-cell imaging by use of a bioluminescent reporter and positron emission tomography in clinically relevant mouse models of pleural mesothelioma and non-small cell lung cancer. [Molecular Therapy-Oncolytics] |
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| The authors examined the potency and functionality of both female and male adipose derived mesenchymal stem cells in order to gain further insights into donor selection. [Scientific Reports] |
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| Human articular chondrocytes and immortalised mesenchymal cells differentiated in chondrocytes were cultured in round-bottom 96-well plates to produce multicellular spheroids and their growth kinetics and viability was evaluated over seven days of culture. [Tissue Engineering Part A] |
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| Immunohistochemistry and flow cytometry were performed to detect the characteristics of sialic acid-binding immunoglobulin-like lectin 10high (Siglec-10hi) tumor-associated macrophages and explored their impact on the tumor microenvironment of hepatocellular carcinoma. [Experimental Hematology & Oncology] |
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| IL1β priming Tonsil-derived MSCs had an enhanced osteogenic differentiation and secreted factors that regulated both osteoclastogenesis and osteoblastogenesis. [Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine] |
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| Investigators investigated whether human endometrium-derived stem cells could be used for cardiac repair after ischemic injury and their possible underlying mechanisms. [Current Stem Cell Research & Therapy] |
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| Investigators summarize the potential mechanisms and therapeutic effects of MSC-derived exosomes in cardiac regeneration and repair and provide evidence to support their clinical application. [Stem Cell Reports] |
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| The authors summarize the emerging understanding of apoptosis in mediating mesenchymal stem cell transplant, highlighting the potential of apoptotic extracellular vesicles as cell-free therapeutics. [Cell Death & Disease] |
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| Scientists discuss the progress made in iPSC-derived T cells and provides a roadmap for the development of CAR iPSC-derived T cells and off-the-shelf T-iPSCs. [Pharmaceutical Research] |
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| IN8bio, Inc. announced an update from the ongoing Phase I clinical trial of INB-200, its DeltEx drug resistant immunotherapy , MGMT-gene modified gamma delta T-cells in patients with newly diagnosed GBM. [IN8bio, Inc.] |
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| Notch Therapeutics is a Canadian company with a potential breakthrough in the form of a cost-effective and reliable manufacturing platform called Engineered Thymic Niche. The technology can create universally compatible T-cells from donor stem cells on an industrial scale, offering an efficient way to mass manufacture T-cell therapies that are of consistent quality. [Notch Therapeutics] |
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| The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded Lydia Kavraki, PhD, of Rice University’s Brown School of Engineering, a U01 grant to develop a new approach to model and analyze protein-ligand interactions in cancer research. The end goal is to create a proteomics toolkit, PROTEAN-CR, focused on the structural analysis of protein-ligand interactions. [Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News] |
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| With a view to team science, the programme ZonMw Open Competition is specifically aimed at innovative and groundbreaking combinations of two or more research groups. [ZonMw] |
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| July 12 – 15, 2021 Virtual |
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| GSK – San Francisco, California, United States |
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| Sana Biotechnology – Multiple Locations, United States |
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| Shanghai Immune Therapy Institute – Shanghai, China |
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| University of British Columbia – Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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| Cedars Sinai – Los Angeles, California, United States |
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