Immunopeptidomic MHC-I Profiling and Immunogenicity Testing Identifies Tcj2 as a New Chagas Disease mRNA Vaccine Candidate

Versteeg, L., Adhikari, R., Robinson, G., Lee, J., Wei, J., Islam, N., Keegan, B., Russell, W. K., Poveda, C., Villar, M. J., Jones, K., Bottazzi, M. E., Hotez, P., Tijhaar, E., & Pollet, J. (2024). PLoS Pathogens, 20(12), e1012764. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012764 Trypanosoma cruzi is a protozoan parasite that causes Chagas disease. Globally 6 to 7 million […]

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 […]

A novel mass cytometry protocol optimized for immunophenotyping of low-frequency antigen- specific T cells

Balz, K., Grange, M., Pegel, U., Karamya, Z. A., Mello, M., Zhou, X., Berger, T., Bloch, K., Dunham, D., Chinthrajah, S., Nadeau, K., Luche, H., & Skevaki, C. (2024b). Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2023.1336489 Understanding antigen-specific T-cell responses, for example, following virus infections or allergen exposure, is of high relevance for the […]

The GENTIL Method for Isolation of Human Adult Cardiomyocytes from Cryopreserved Tissue for Proteomic Analyses

Waknitz, M., Luecke, L. B., Mesidor, R., Wojtkiewicz, M., Castro, C., & Gundry, R. L. (2023). Methods in Molecular Biology, 145–167. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3527-8_9 Heart failure is a serious clinical and economic health care problem, and its clinical progression is linked to pathological cardiac remodeling. Due to the heterogeneity of heart failure, lack of animal models 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 […]

Future-Proofing Single Cell Applications

Now Watchinghttps://youtu.be/wL2tsRsL9TA Technology has evolved from those early days of batching thousands of cells together to decrypt the millions of base pairs that make up genetic information. Cellular Indexing of Transcriptomes and Epitopes by sequencing (CITE-seq), brings together surface protein phenotyping (similar to flow cytometry) and single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq). This is achieved by using […]

The Direct Reading Grid – How it Works

Now Watchinghttps://youtu.be/_wdesbdI5ZkIn this video provides walk-throughs on pairing the Direct Reading Grid (DRG) with the Laminar Wash™ (LW) Plate to create the DRG & LW Plate Unit as well as pipetting, handling, transferring, and Big Bear Vortexing with the DRG and LW Plate Unit.