Mesenchymal Stromal Cells with Chimeric Antigen Receptors for Enhanced Immunosuppression

Mesenchymal Stromal Cells with Chimeric Antigen Receptors for Enhanced Immunosuppression Background Mesenchymal Stromal Cells (MSCs) are pluripotent cells found in almost all tissues and possess significant immunosuppressive and regenerative properties. These features make MSCs widely studied for the treatment of immune diseases and tissue regenera...

Oncolytic Mineralized Bacteria as Potent Locally Administered Immunotherapeutics

Oncolytic Mineralized Bacteria May Be Used for Tumor Immunotherapy via Local Injection Research Background As a novel cancer treatment method, bacteria-based cancer immunotherapy has a long history dating back to the late 19th century when heated, inactivated bacteria were used to treat sarcomas. Initial trials found that these bacteria could trigg...

Construction of human 3D striato-nigral assembloids to recapitulate medium spiny neuronal projection defects in Huntington’s disease

Construction of human 3D striato-nigral assembloids to recapitulate medium spiny neuronal projection defects in Huntington’s disease

Constructing Human 3D Striatum-Substantia Nigra Organoids to Model Medium Spiny Neuron Projection Deficits in Huntington’s Disease Background Introduction Huntington’s Disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative disorder leading to significant deterioration of the motor system, primarily characterized by defects in medium spiny neurons (MSNs) that project ...

Physical Immune Escape: Weakened Mechanical Communication Leads to Escape of Metastatic Colorectal Carcinoma Cells from Macrophages

Physical Immune Escape: Weakened Mechanical Communication Leads to Escape of Metastatic Colorectal Carcinoma Cells from Macrophages

Physical Immunoevasion: Attenuated Mechanical Communication Facilitates Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Cells to Evade Macrophage Attack Background Introduction Cancer metastasis is a complex and daunting challenge, with metastatic cancer cells capable of evading immune cell attacks, breaching the extracellular matrix (ECM), and migrating to other sit...

Dopamine and Serotonin in Human Substantia Nigra Track Social Context and Value Signals During Economic Exchange

Dopamine and Serotonin in Human Substantia Nigra Track Social Context and Value Signals During Economic Exchange

Background Introduction In contemporary neuroscience research, dopamine and serotonin are hypothesized to be crucial neuromodulators guiding social behavior. However, there is a significant lack of understanding regarding the dynamic changes of these neuromodulators during social interactions. Although non-invasive functional neuroimaging methods (...

Prediction of tumor origin in cancers of unknown primary origin with cytology-based deep learning

Prediction of tumor origin in cancers of unknown primary origin with cytology-based deep learning

Background Introduction Cancer of Unknown Primary (CUP) is a type of malignant disease that is confirmed to be metastatic through histopathology but whose primary site cannot be identified using conventional baseline diagnostic methods. CUP presents significant diagnostic and therapeutic challenges in clinical practice and is believed to account fo...