in vitro

[Scientific Reports] Researchers successfully converted three in-house-derived primed human PSC lines to a naive state and an expanded pluripotent stem cell (EPS) state. Primed, naive and EPS cells displayed state-specific morphologies and expressed pluripotent markers.

[Communications Biology] An inert form of the human NKG2D extracellular domain (iNKG2D) was engineered as the ectodomain of the chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) to generate convertibleCARTM-T cells. These cells were specifically directed to kill antigen-expressing target cells only in the presence of an activating bispecific adapter comprised of an iNKG2D-exclusive ULBP2-based ligand fused to an antigen-targeting antibody

[Molecular Therapy] The biological capacity of lncRNA named lncRNA activated in metastatic PCa (lncAMPC) in prostate cancer (PCa) was demonstrated both in vitro and in vivo. The lncAMPC was overexpressed in tumor tissue and urine of metastatic PCa patients and promoted PCa tumorigenesis and metastasis.

[Bone Research] Researchers characterized the impact of a variant on cytokine signaling in vitro using transfected cell lines as well as primary patient-derived cells and supported these findings using a mouse model with the corresponding genome-edited variant Il6st p.R279Q.

[Nature] Investigators showed that neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) were abundant in the liver metastases of patients with breast and colon cancers, and that serum NETs could predict the occurrence of liver metastases in patients with early-stage breast cancer.

[Acta Pharmacologica Sinica] Scientists investigated whether MDL-800, an allosteric activator of Sirtuin 6, exerted antiproliferation effect against non-small cell lung carcinoma cells in vitro and in vivo.