{"title":"Beyond the blood: expanding CAR T cell therapy to solid tumors","authors":"Ugur Uslu, Carl H. June","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02446-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02446-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy stands as a transformative advancement in immunotherapy, triumphing against hematological malignancies and, increasingly, autoimmune disorders. After a decade of relatively modest results for solid tumors, recent clinical trials and patient reports have also started to yield promising outcomes in glioblastoma and other challenging solid tumor entities. This Perspective seeks to explore the reasons behind these latest achievements and discusses how they can be sustained and expanded through different strategies involving CAR engineering and synthetic biology. Furthermore, we critically analyze how these breakthroughs can be leveraged to maintain momentum and broaden the therapeutic impact of CAR T cells across a variety of solid tumor landscapes.</p>","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142599580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"People","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02464-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41587-024-02464-0","url":null,"abstract":"Recent moves of note in and around the biotech and pharma industries.","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"42 11","pages":"1754-1754"},"PeriodicalIF":33.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142600848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Olivier Belli, Kyriaki Karava, Rick Farouni, Randall J. Platt
{"title":"Multimodal scanning of genetic variants with base and prime editing","authors":"Olivier Belli, Kyriaki Karava, Rick Farouni, Randall J. Platt","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02439-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-024-02439-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mutational scanning connects genetic variants to phenotype, enabling the interrogation of protein functions, interactions and variant pathogenicity. However, current methodologies cannot efficiently engineer customizable sets of diverse genetic variants in endogenous loci across cellular contexts in high throughput. Here, we combine cytosine and adenine base editors and a prime editor to assess the pathogenicity of a broad spectrum of variants in the epithelial growth factor receptor gene (<i>EGFR</i>). Using pooled base editing and prime editing guide RNA libraries, we install tens of thousands of variants spanning the full coding sequence of <i>EGFR</i> in multiple cell lines and assess the role of these variants in tumorigenesis and resistance to tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Our <i>EGFR</i> variant scan identifies important hits, supporting the robustness of the approach and revealing underappreciated routes to EGFR activation and drug response. We anticipate that multimodal precision mutational scanning can be applied broadly to characterize genetic variation in any genetic element of interest at high and single-nucleotide resolution.</p>","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":46.9,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142599579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shot in the arm for biotech fuels","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02484-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41587-024-02484-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"42 11","pages":"1628-1628"},"PeriodicalIF":33.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142600867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LucaProt reveals the diverse global RNA virome","authors":"Iris Marchal","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02476-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41587-024-02476-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"42 11","pages":"1650-1650"},"PeriodicalIF":33.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142600837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wasp gut microbes yield beer with extra tang","authors":"Claire Turrell","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02473-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41587-024-02473-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"42 11","pages":"1631-1631"},"PeriodicalIF":33.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142600844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Bench to Podcast: Ali Shaib","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02438-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41587-024-02438-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"42 11","pages":"1653-1653"},"PeriodicalIF":33.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142600850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biotech news from around the world","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s41587-024-02474-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41587-024-02474-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":19084,"journal":{"name":"Nature biotechnology","volume":"42 11","pages":"1632-1632"},"PeriodicalIF":33.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142600838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}