Putting the STING Back into BH3-Mimetic Drugs for TP53-Mutant Blood Cancers

Applying STING Function to BH3-Mimetic Drugs for Treating TP53 Mutant Blood Cancers In the recently published article in Cancer Cell titled “Putting the sting back into BH3-mimetic drugs for TP53-mutant blood cancers,” Sarah T. Diepstraten and colleagues conducted in-depth research to explore how to enhance the efficacy of BH3-mimetic drugs in TP53...

Molecular Targets of Glucocorticoids that Elucidate Their Therapeutic Efficacy in Aggressive Lymphomas

Analysis of Molecular Targets of Glucocorticoids in the Treatment of Aggressive Lymphomas Academic Background Glucocorticoids (GCs) have been used for over 70 years in the treatment of hematological malignancies, but their mechanisms of action remain unclear. Clinically, glucocorticoids show significant efficacy in treating lymphomas but not in mye...

Tracking In Situ Checkpoint Inhibitor-Bound Target T Cells in Patients with Checkpoint-Induced Colitis

Tracking In Situ Checkpoint Inhibitor-Bound Target T Cells in Patients with Checkpoint-Induced Colitis

Tracking In Situ Checkpoint Inhibitor-Bound Target T Cells Academic Background Checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs) have revolutionized cancer treatment by blocking immune regulatory signals mediated by checkpoint molecules, restoring T cell-mediated tumor clearance. However, these therapies also lead to a range of immune-related adverse events (IRAEs), wi...

Identification of Hypoxic Macrophages in Glioblastoma with Therapeutic Potential for Vasculature Normalization

Identification of Hypoxic Macrophages in Glioblastoma with Therapeutic Potential for Vasculature Normalization

Identification of Therapeutic Potential of Hypoxic Macrophages in Glioblastoma Academic Background Glioblastoma (GBM) and isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) mutant gliomas are the most common malignant brain tumors in adults. Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are the major immune cell infiltrates in these tumors. These cells interact directly with ma...

ARID1A orchestrates SWI/SNF-mediated sequential binding of transcription factors with ARID1A loss driving pre-memory B cell fate and lymphomagenesis

ARID1A Loss and B Cell Fate and Lymphoma Occurrence Background Introduction This paper investigates the critical role of ARID1A (AT-Rich Interactive Domain 1A) in B cell fate determination and lymphoma occurrence. ARID1A is an important subunit of the BRG1/Brahma-associated factors (BAF) complex, with mutations commonly found in various human malig...

SMARCA4 is a Haploinsufficient B Cell Lymphoma Tumor Suppressor that Fine-Tunes Centrocyte Cell Fate Decisions

Scientific Report: Study Reveals the Role of SMARCA4 in B Cell Lymphoma Background Introduction The germinal center (GC) plays a crucial role in the maturation and apoptosis of B cells. The GC reaction is a rapid and transient immune response structure that improves the affinity of B cells to specific antigens through somatic mutation and affinity ...

Mapping Functional to Morphological Variation Reveals the Basis of Regional Extracellular Matrix Subversion and Nerve Invasion in Pancreatic Cancer

The Biological Basis of Regional ECM Breakdown and Nerve Invasion in Pancreatic Cancer Background Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most aggressive types of cancer, typically associated with a highly fibrotic stroma, which can account for about 90% of the tumor mass. Although morphological heterogeneity is not addressed in routi...

Dendritic-Cell-Targeting Virus-Like Particles as Potent mRNA Vaccine Carriers

Dendritic-cell-targeting Virus-like Particles as Potent mRNA Vaccine Carriers Introduction In vaccine development, especially mRNA vaccines, significant achievements have been made in recent years. The mRNA vaccines developed by Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech against COVID-19 have set a successful precedent, greatly advancing the development of mRNA v...

Antibody-Displaying Extracellular Vesicles for Targeted Cancer Therapy

Antibody-Displaying Extracellular Vesicles for Targeted Cancer Therapy

The Application of Antibodies Displaying Extracellular Vesicles in Targeted Cancer Therapy Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) have been extensively researched as natural delivery carriers and mediators of biological signals in various tissues. In this study, researchers utilized these characteristics of EVs to demonstrate a modular delivery system for ca...

Spatial multi-omics at subcellular resolution via high-throughput in situ pairwise sequencing

Spatial multi-omics at subcellular resolution via high-throughput in situ pairwise sequencing

Spatial Multi-omics High Throughput In Situ Pairwise Sequencing at Subcellular Resolution Research Background and Objectives With the continuous advancement in biomedical research, the application of multi-omics technologies in understanding cell functions and disease mechanisms has gained increasing attention. However, many current in situ sequenc...