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Lentiviral Vectors
We review the use of lentiviral vectors in current human gene therapy applications that involve genetic modification of nondividing tissues with...
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Plasmid Vaccines and Therapeutics: From Design to Applications
In the late 1980s, Vical and collaborators discovered that the injection into tissues of unformulated plasmid encoding various proteins resulted in...
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Adeno-associated Virus as a Gene Therapy Vector: Vector Development, Production and Clinical Applications
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) has emerged as an attractive vector for gene therapy. AAV vectors have successfully been utilized to promote...
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Modeling Cell Cycle Control and Cancer with pRB Tumor Suppressor
Cancer is a complex syndrome of diseases characterized by the increased abundance of cells that disrupts the normal tissue architecture within...
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The Centrosome Cycle
Centrosomes are dynamic organelles involved in many aspects of cell function and growth. Centrosomes act as microtubule organizing centers, and...
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The function of Sec1/Munc18 proteins – Solution of the mystery in sight?
Members of the Sec1/Munc18 (SM) protein family form a central part of the machinery responsible for transport vesicle docking and fusion. Their...
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Phosphoinositides and membrane traffic in health and disease
The phosphorylated derivatives of phosphatidylinositol (PtdIns) are collectively known as the polyphosphoinositides (PIs) and they were originally...
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Regulating membrane curvature
Membranes of living cells are subject to a variety of shape changes. Membrane deformation is essential for cell division, locomotion, organelle...
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Cell Cycle Regulation in Mammalian Germ Cells
Meiosis is a unique form of cellular division by which a diploid cell produces genetically distinct haploid gametes. Initiation and regulation of...
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An end-to-end approach for single-cell infrared absorption spectroscopy of bacterial inclusion bodies: from AFM-IR measurement to data interpretation of large sample sets
BackgroundInclusion bodies (IBs) are well-known subcellular structures in bacteria where protein aggregates are collected. Various methods have...
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The black box of the relationship between breast cancer patients and accompanying patients: the accompanied patients’ point of view
BackgroundThe PAROLE-Onco program was introduced in the province of Quebec, Canada in 2019. It integrates accompanying patients (APs), i.e., people...
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The obesity-related mutation gene on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
The prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing, leading to metabolic-associated fatty liver disease (MAFLD) characterized by excessive...
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In silico-guided discovery and in vitro validation of novel sugar-tethered lysinated carbon nanotubes for targeted drug delivery of doxorubicin
ContextMultiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) functionalized with lysine via 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition and conjugated to galactose or mannose are...
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Yoda1 pretreated BMSC derived exosomes accelerate osteogenesis by activating phospho-ErK signaling via Yoda1-mediated signal transmission
Segmental bone defects, arising from factors such as trauma, tumor resection, and congenital malformations, present significant clinical challenges...
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Associations between modifiable risk factors and hepatocellular carcinoma: a trans-ancestry Mendelian randomization study
BackgroundPotentially modifiable risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have been investigated in observational epidemiology studies in East...
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Genomic variants associated with age at diagnosis of childhood-onset type 1 diabetes
Age at diagnosis (AAD) of Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is determined by the age at onset of the autoimmune attack and by the rate of beta cell destruction...
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Causal inference of the effect of blood proteome on the risk of head and neck cancer: two-sample Mendelian randomization
Early diagnosis of head and neck cancer can improve therapeutic outcomes but remains a challenge. The blood proteome can comprise a key source of...
