Defining the bone marrow atlas with high-dimensional biology via a novel CITE-seq workflow

Now Watchinghttps://youtu.be/hD4OV9vf-Ak Single-cell multimodal approaches and machine learning are transforming analysis of the human hematopoietic progenitor compartment. Cellular indexing of transcriptomes and epitopes by sequencing (CITE-seq) enables coupled surface protein and transcriptome profiling, revealing genomic programs underlying progenitor states. This webinar will present groundbreaking work establishing a high-resolution human bone marrow single-cell atlas using paired […]

Ex vivo T cell differentiation in adoptive immunotherapy manufacturing: Critical process parameters and analytical technologies

Sixun Chen, Tan Dai Nguyen, Kang-Zheng Lee, Dan Liu, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotechadv.2024.108434  Adoptive immunotherapy shows great promise as a treatment for cancer and other diseases. Recent evidence suggests that the therapeutic efficacy of these cell-based therapies can be enhanced by the enrichment of less-differentiated T cell subpopulations in the therapeutic product, giving rise to a need for […]

Breathe Easy with Better Models

Now Watching Research for Activating Macrophages and Dendritic Cells with Nanomedicine in Lung Carcinoma https://youtu.be/wljKOIcYsUM Macrophages can mediate phagocytosis of cancer cells and cytotoxic tumor killing, and engage in effective bidirectional interactions with components of the innate and adaptive immune system. Given the continuous recruitment of myelomonocytic cells into tumor tissues, macrophages are candidates for […]

An immunophenotype-coupled transcriptomic atlas of human hematopoietic progenitors

Zhang, X., Song, B., Carlino, M. J., Li, G., Ferchen, K., Chen, M., Thompson, E. N., Kain, B. N., Schnell, D., Thakkar, K., Kouril, M., Jin, K., Hay, S. B., Sen, S., Bernardicius, D., Ma, S., Bennett, S. N., Croteau, J., Salvatori, O., . . . Grimes, H. L. (2024). Nature Immunology, 25(4), 703–715. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41590-024-01782-4 […]

Single cell view of tumor microenvironment gradients in pleural mesothelioma

Giotti, B., Dolasia, K., Zhao, W., Cai, P., Sweeney, R., Merritt, E., Kiner, E., Kim, G. S., Bhagwat, A., Nguyen, T., Hegde, S., Fitzgerald, B. G., Shroff, S., Dawson, T., Garcia-Barros, M., Abdul-Ghafar, J., Chen, R., Gnjatic, S., Soto, A., . . . Tsankov, A. M. (2024). Cancer Discovery, 14(11), 2262–2278. https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.cd-23-0017 Immunotherapies have shown […]

Automated Characterization Method for Validation of Epigenomic Editors in T Cells

Now Watchinghttps://youtu.be/-oRv-U2VMHg To view the transcript click here. Robust characterization methods are important analytical tools for phenotypic characterization in cell and gene therapy. For high-parameter flow cytometry methods, sample preparation is a highly complex and mostly manual procedure. Traditional flow cytometry methods are limited in throughput and resource intensive, which make them suboptimal for discovery screening […]

Disruption of SUV39H1-mediated H3K9 methylation sustains CAR T cell function

Jain, N., Zhao, Z., Koche, R. P., Antelope, C., Gozlan, Y., Montalbano, A., Brocks, D., Lopez, M., Dobrin, A., Shi, Y., Gunset, G., Giavridis, T., & Sadelain, M. (2023). Cancer Discovery, 14(1), 142–157. https://doi.org/10.1158/2159-8290.cd-22-1319 Suboptimal functional persistence limits the efficacy of adoptive T cell therapies. CD28-based chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) impart potent effector function to […]

Nanomedicine-based co-delivery of a calcium channel inhibitor and a small molecule targeting CD47 for lung cancer immunotherapy

Guo, Y., Bao, Q., Hu, P., & Shi, J. (2023). Nature Communications, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42972-2 Pro-tumoral macrophages in lung tumors present a significant challenge in immunotherapy. Here, we introduce a pH-responsive nanomedicine approach for activating anti-tumoral macrophages and dendritic cells. Using a layered double hydroxide nanosheet carrier, we co-deliver a T-type calcium channel inhibitor (TTA-Q6) and […]