Continued 6. Nature’s New Discovery: Another Unidentified Anti-cancer Approach of PD-1 / PD-L1 Antibodies doi: 10.1038/nature22396. On May 17, Nature published an online article titled “PD-1 expression by tumor-associated macrophages inhibits phagocytosis and tumor immunity”, revealing the immune checkpoint inhibitors represented by the PD-1 / PD-L1 antibody can fight cancer in a completely different way. Dr. Irving Weissman, a professor of pathology and developmental biology at Stanford…
Month: December 2017
Interpretation of the Recent PD-1 Research Progress
PD-1 (programmed cell death protein 1), the programmed death receptor 1, is an important immunosuppressive molecule. Immunomodulation which targets PD-1 is of great importance to anti-tumor, anti-infective, anti-autoimmune diseases, and organ transplant survival. In recent years, scientists have made a number of achievements in the field of PD-1 research. We will share the relevant research here. 1.Science: Scientists confirm that intestinal microbes affect PD-1 / L1 antibody treatment for…
Highlights of the Journal Cell for Oct, 2017 (III)
(Continued) 9. Draw a four-dimensional map of the self-folding of the human genome Suhas S.P. Rao, Su-Chen Huang, Brian Glenn St Hilaire et al. Cohesin Loss Eliminates All Loop Domains. Cell, 5 October 2017, 171(2):305–320, doi:10.1016/j.cell.2017.09.026 In a new study, researchers from institutions such as Baylor College of Medicine, Rice University, Stanford University and Broad Institute, constructed the high-resolution four-dimensional map of the human genome fold for…
Highlights of the Journal Cell for Oct, 2017 (II)
(Continued) 5. On average, one to ten mutations are sufficient to promote cancer Iñigo Martincorena, Keiran M. Raine, Moritz Gerstung et al. Universal Patterns of Selection in Cancer and Somatic Tissues. Cell, Published online: October 19, 2017, doi:10.1016/j.cell.2017.09.042 In a study of more than 7,500 tumors of 29 cancer types, researchers from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the European Bioinformatics Institute, and the Francis-Crick Institute unbiased evaluated…