Human Immunology News Volume 11.42 | Oct 24 2023

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    Human Immunology News by STEMCELL Technologies
    Vol. 11.42 – 24 October, 2023
    TOP STORY

    Clinical Trial Links Oncolytic Immunoactivation to Survival in Glioblastoma

    Scientists reported the results of a first-in-human phase I trial in 41 patients with recurrent glioblastoma who were injected with CAN-3110—an oncolytic herpes virus.
    [Nature]

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    Trimodal Single-Cell Profiling Reveals a Novel Pediatric CD8αα+ T Cell Subset and Broad Age-Related Molecular Reprogramming across the T Cell Compartment

    The authors profiled >300,000 single T cells from healthy children and older adults by using the trimodal assay TEA-seq, which revealed that molecular programming of T cell subsets shifted toward a more activated basal state with age.
    [Nature Immunology]

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    Microphysiological Model Reveals the Promise of Memory-Like Natural Killer Cell Immunotherapy for HIV± Cancer

    Researchers leveraged human-derived microphysiological models to reverse-engineer the HIV-immune system interaction and evaluated the potential of memory-like natural killer cells for HIV+ head and neck cancer.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Cytotoxic CD4+ Tissue-Resident Memory T Cells Are Associated with Asthma Severity

    The authors performed single-cell transcriptome analysis of >50,000 airway CD4+ T cells isolated from bronchoalveolar lavage samples from 30 patients with mild and severe asthma.
    [Med]

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    Recombinant PreS-Fusion Protein Vaccine for Birch Pollen and Apple Allergy

    The allergenic and inflammatory activity of a designed a recombinant protein, AB-PreS, was tested using basophils and peripheral blood mononuclear cells from birch pollen allergic patients.
    [Allergy]

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    CD24hiCD27+ Bregs within Metastatic Lymph Nodes Promote Multi-Drug Resistance in Breast Cancer

    Researchers collected metastatic axillary lymph node samples from breast cancer patients who had received standard neoadjuvant therapy. The effect of CD24hiCD27+ Bregs on drug resistance of breast cancer cells was evaluated via in vitro experiments.
    [Clinical Cancer Research]

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    The Total Mass, Number, and Distribution of Immune Cells in the Human Body

    Investigators conducted a literature survey and integrated data from multiplexed imaging and methylome-based deconvolution, and also considered cellular mass to determine the distribution of immune cells in terms of both number and total mass.
    [Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America]

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    Functional Diversification and Dynamics of CAR-T Cells in Patients with B-ALL

    Researchers constructed a longitudinal high-precision single-cell transcriptomic landscape of 7,578 CAR-T cells from 26 patients with B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia post-infusion.
    [Cell Reports]

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    Multivalent, Asymmetric IL-2–FC Fusions Show Enhanced Selectivity for Regulatory T Cells

    Scientists profiled the dynamics and dose dependency of signaling responses in primary human immune cells induced by engineered fusions composed of either wild-type IL-2 or mutant forms with altered affinity, valency, and fusion to the antibody Fc region for stability.
    [Science Signaling]

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    REVIEWS

    CD8+ T Cells in the Cancer-Immunity Cycle

    The authors argue for the notion of immunotherapies as “pro-drugs” that act to augment or modulate T cells, which ultimately serve as the drug in vivo, and for the importance of overall immune health in cancer treatment and prevention.
    [Immunity]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    NKGen Biotech Announces FDA Clearance of Investigational New Drug Application for SNK01 NK Cell Therapy to Treat Alzheimer’s Disease

    SNK01 is an autologous, non-genetically modified natural killer (NK) cell product that has enhanced cytotoxicity and activating receptor expression. This approved trial of 30 patients with moderate Alzheimer’s Disease will look to commence before the end of this year.
    [NKGen Biotech Inc.]

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    Nkarta Receives FDA Clearance of IND Application for NKX019 in Lupus Nephritis

    NKX019, an allogeneic CAR NK cell therapy targeting CD19+ B cells, could modify refractory autoimmune disease while maintaining NK-driven safety profile.
    [Nkarta, Inc.]

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