Introduction
Breast cancer (BC) accounts for the highest incidence of tumors globally and is the leading cause of death of female cancer patients.1 In recent years, the application of precise surgery and adjuvant systemic treatments (chemotherapy, radiotherapy, endocrine therapy, and molecular targeting drugs) dramatically enhances the therapeutic effect. The prognosis of BC patients remains unsatisfactory, however. Screening and diagnosis are essential to reduce BC patients incidence rate and mortality rate in the early stage.2 Although clinical, pathological, and molecular features are commonly used to predict prognosis, the underlying pathogenesis of BC invasiveness is still poorly understood. Minimally invasive biomarkers to detect early BC and gauge treatment response are crucial in BC research.3
Tumor microenvironment (TME) plays a vital role in tumor progression and the overall efficacy of cancer treatments, such as immunotherapy, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy.4,5 The abundance of immune infiltrating cells in TME affects tumor initiation, progression, metastasis, and treatment resistance.6
Tissue type plasminogen activator (PLAT) and urokinase type plasminogen activator (PLAU), two essential proteins of the plasminplasminogen system, not only participated in the intravascular dissolution of blood clots but also played a significant role in tumor progression and metastasis.7 PLAU has been involved in different steps of cancer progression, such as tumorigenesis,8 angiogenesis,9 cell invasion, and metastasis.10 PLAT can affect the development of many tumors. BC patients with low PLAT levels often have a poor prognosis, while PLAT levels are higher in melanoma, neuroblastoma, acute myeloid leukemia, and pancreatic cancer.11,12
Our study evaluated the expression level of PLAT in BC and the relationships between PLAT expression and clinical pathological characteristics, together with prognosis, through publicly available data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). PLAT protein expression was assessed with UALCAN databases. Moreover, the possible molecular functions of PLAT were screened by using GSEA software (version 4.1.0). Furthermore, the relationships between PLAT and immune infiltrating cells were explored using TIMER, TISIDB database, and ssGSEA algorithm. We investigated the correlation between PLAT expression level, clinicopathological characteristics, and DNA methylation with TCGA data. Our findings reveal the predictive value of PLAT in BC and show a potential correlation between PLAT and immune infiltrating cells, which will help clarify a possible mechanism for BC.
Transcriptional data of mRNA-sequencing, DNA methylation data, phenotype, and survival profiles of BC patients were accessed from UCSC Xena (https://xenabrowser.net/),13 which analyzes data from TCGA. The pre-processing steps were conducted by R (version 4.1.0) and Perl (version 5.30.2) software.
We selected 1071 primary BC samples, and 96 paired normal samples with clinicopathological profiles such as age, sex, menopausal status, histological type, TNM stage, and PAM50 subtype14 for further analysis. PAM50 algorithm using the 50-gene classifier divides BC into five intrinsic subtypes: luminal A, luminal B, HER2-enriched, basal-like, and normal-like. We explored the different expressions of PLAT in all clinicopathologic features. PLAT methylation data of 890 samples and its correlated gene expression levels were applied to calculate the methylation score of PLAT and the relationships between gene expression, DNA methylation, and clinicopathologic profiles.
Profiles of overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) were downloaded from TCGA survival data. From this data, 1071 samples were assigned to high and low expression groups based on the median score of PLAT. R survival package was employed to generate KaplanMeier (KM) curves, while the optimal cut-off point for survival curves was generated through the res. cut function in the survminer package. Univariable and multivariable Cox regression models were established through the coxph function in the survival package, which was used to confirm whether PLAT is an independent prognostic factor of BC.
The clusterProfiler R package15 was employed to perform gene ontology (GO) and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) analyses on the basis of differentially expressed genes (DEGs_ (| log2FC | 1, FDR < 0.05) between two different expressed groups. P-values were adjusted by the BH method. We used Spearman correlation coefficient analysis to show the relationship between PLAT and co-expression genes. GSEA was conducted based on KEGG (v7.4) gene-set collections using GSEA software (v4.1.0 6)16,17 to uncover pathways in the DEGs groups. Gene sets with NOM p-value < 0.05 were considered significant.
The gsva package18 was utilized to conduct the ssGSEA,19 which can be applied to evaluate the scores of immune infiltrating cells and calculate the activity of immune-related pathways. TIMER (https://cistrome.shinyapps.io/timer/)20 contains an abundant resource for systematically exploring the immune infiltrates between various tumors. We employed TIMER 2.0 gene module to calculate the relationships between PLAT mRNA expression and the infiltration of immune cells. TISIDB database (http://cis.hku.hk/TISIDB)21 is a portal web containing a variety of tumor and immune system resources. In this study, TISIDB providers the correlations between PLAT and the immune system.
Gene expression profiles, methylation degree, and clinical characteristics were compared through Wilcoxon signed rank tests and displayed by box plot. Survival rates were assessed by applying KM curves and the log rank test. The Pearson chi-square test was employed to analyze the correlation between PLAT expression and DNA methylation level. R version 4.1.0 was used in all tests conducted. A statistically significant difference was considered when p < 0.05.
We achieved PLAT expression and BC-related clinical profiles from the TCGA database. The detailed data are summarized in Supplementary Table 1. PLAT had a lower expression in BC tissues than in normal tissues both in TCGA-BRCA all samples (Figure 1A) and paired samples (Figure 1B). The CPTAC dataset of the UALCAN database was used to analyze the PLAT protein expression. PLAT in BC tissues was significantly lower than in normal tissues, which was consistent with the gene expression level (Figure 1C). After that, PLAT expression in BC with different clinical characteristics such as gender, menopausal status, histological type, molecular subtype, N stage, and T stage displayed statistical differences. The expression level of PLAT in women was lower than that in men (Figure 1D), and it was lower in postmenopausal women than premenopausal women (Figure 1E). Invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) and invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) are the two main histological types of BC. The expression level of PLAT in IDC was lower than in other types, including ILC. But there was no significant difference between ILC and other types (Figure 1F). Among the five PAM50 molecular subtypes of BC, luminal A, luminal B, HER2-enriched, basal-like, and normal-like, the expression level of PLAT was statistically different, in which luminal A was the highest and basal-like was the lowest (Figure 1G). The expression level was lower in the advanced stage in the T stage (Figure 1H); however, it was higher in the advanced N stage (Figure 1I).
Figure 1 Associations between PLAT expression and clinicalpathological parameters in BC. Low expression of PLAT was observed in tumor tissues both in all samples (A) and paired samples (B). Protein expression of PLAT in normal and primary tumor tissues with CPTAC samples (C). PLAT expression was analyzed in female and male (D), postmenopausal and premenopausal (E) patients, with different histological types (F), including invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC), invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC), and all other specific types, different PAM50 molecular subtypes (G), different tumor size (H) (T1 versus T2, T3, and T4), and different lymph node metastasis status (I) (N0 versus N1, N2, and N3). T1, tumor 20 mm in greatest dimension; T2, Tumor >20 mm but 50 mm in greatest dimension; T3, Tumor >50 mm in greatest dimension; T4, Tumor of any size with direct extension to the chest wall or the skin (ulceration or macroscopic nodules); invasion of the dermis alone does not qualify as T4; N0, no regional lymph node metastasis; N1, metastases in 1 to 3 axillary lymph nodes; N2, metastases in 4 to 9 axillary lymph nodes; and N3, metastases in 10 or more axillary lymph nodes. The asterisks represent the statistical p-value (ns: p > 0.05, *p 0.05, **p 0.01, ***p 0.001, ****p 0.0001).
We explored whether PLAT expression was correlated with the prognosis of BC patients. KM curves were utilized to evaluate the influence of PLAT expression on OS and DFS. The high PLAT expression group has a longer OS than low expression patients (Figure 2A) but there was no statistical significance in DFS (Figure 2B). We further investigated OS in the different molecular subtypes. Statistical significance of OS difference was found in all luminal samples, especially in luminal B subtypes (Figure 2C).
Figure 2 Prognostic value of PLAT expression in BC. (A) Low PLAT expression was associated with a poor OS in BC patients using KaplanMeier plotter. (B) DFS had no statistically significant difference in high and low PLAT expression groups. (C) Low PLAT expression was inferred as a poor OS in all luminal samples and all luminal B samples. (D) Forest plots show the association between PLAT expression and clinicopathological features using univariate and multivariate COX hazard analysis.
Univariate and multivariate regression analyses were applied to evaluate whether PLAT is an independent prognostic factor for BC. Univariate Cox hazard analysis identified that age (HR = 1.033, 95% CI:1.0201.046, p < 0.001), menopausal status (HR = 2.025, 95% CI:1.3473.045, p < 0.001), T stage (HR = 1.459, 95% CI:1.1971.779, p < 0.001), N stage (HR = 1.600, 95% CI:1.3471.901, p <0.001), M stage (HR = 4.860, 95% CI:2.9008.144, p < 0.001), Stage (HR = 2.187, 95% CI:1.7442.742, p < 0.001), and PLAT (HR = 0.886, 95% CI:0.7970.984, p = 0.024) were prognostic factors of BRCA. Multivariate analysis revealed that, after excluding other confounding factors, age (HR = 1.044, 95% CI:1.0231.067, p < 0.001), N stage (HR = 1.451, 95% CI:1.0522.000, p = 0.023), and PLAT (HR = 0.850, 95% CI:0.7420.974, p = 0.020) were still prognostic factors of BCRA (Figure 2D). The above results show that PLAT is an independent prognostic factor for BC and is a protective factor.
All TCGABRCA samples were assigned to two groups in the light of PLAT expression to gain insight into PLAT biological clues in BC. The volcano plot and heatmap show DEGs between the two groups (Figure 3A and B). PLAT and its co-expression genes are shown in Figure 3C. GO, and KEGG enrichment analyses were conducted based on 93 genes that had a positive correlation with PLAT to identify PLAT-related pathways and biological functions. The top 30 enriched GO terms are shown in Figure 3D. We can see that PLAT was mainly enriched in the pathway related to response to steroid hormone, humoral immune response, intracellular steroid hormone receptor signaling pathway, steroid hormone mediated signaling pathway, and response to progesterone. KEGG enrichment showed that PLAT was closely related to the pathways that correlate with BC and the immune response, such as the estrogen signaling pathway, apelin signaling pathway, IL-17 signaling pathway, and BC (Figure 3E).
Figure 3 DEGs and enrichment analyses of PLAT in BC. (A) Volcano plot and (B) heatmap show the DEGs in high and low PLAT expression patients. (C) Correlation of PLAT and the top 40 coexpressed genes. (D and E) GO enrichment and KEGG pathway analysis of PLAT in BC. The red box highlights the pathways correlated with BC and immune infiltrates. (F) The GSEA results showed that the terms antigen processing and presentation, natural killer cell mediated cytotoxicity, homologous recombination, and nucleotide excision repair were differentially enriched in BC samples with high PLAT.
We further used GSEA to predict PLAT-related pathways between patients with different PLAT expressions; 70 of 178 gene sets were up-regulated in the low PLAT group, and 15 pathways were enriched at NOM p < 0.05 and FDR < 0.25. The presenting figures include antigen processing and presentation, natural killer cell mediated cytotoxicity, homologous recombination, and nucleotide excision repair (Figure 3F). These results show that PLAT may affect immune cell infiltration.
Immune characteristics are closely related to tumor progression. Through the functional analyses, we evaluated the enrichment scores of 16 immune cells and the activity of 13 immune-related pathways between the two expressed groups by employing ssGSEA. The low expression subgroup of PLAT generally had higher levels of infiltration of immune cells, especially of aDCs, CD8 + T cells, DCs, iDCs, macrophages, pDCs, Tfh, Th1 cells, Th2 cells, TILs, and Treg cells. Except for the parainflammation pathway, the other 12 immune pathways performed higher activity in the low expression group than in the high expression group (Figure 4A). After that, we evaluated the relationship between the PLAT expression in BRCA and immune cell infiltration in TIMER. The finding revealed that the expression level of PLAT had a negative correlation with the infiltration of neutrophil (Rho = 0.175, p = 2.59e-08), T cell cd4+ (Rho = 0.158, p = 5.16e-07), B cell (Rho = 0.117, p = 2.12e-04) and dendritic cell (Rho = 0.098, p = 2.08e-03). Meanwhile it had a positive correlation with the infiltration level of T cell CD8+ (Rho = 0.2, p = 2.13e-10) and macrophage (Rho = 0.266, p = 1.45e-17). Not surprisingly, tumor purity was negatively correlated with PLAT expression level (Figure 4B). Then, to understand the association between PLAT and immune infiltration, TISIDB was employed to evaluate the association between PLAT expression and various immune characteristics. Figure 4C shows the relationship between PLAT and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) like CD4, CD8, DC, and B cell and Figure 4D the relationship between PLAT and immunostimulators like IL2RA, ICOS, TNFRSF13C, and PVR. Figure 4E shows the relationship between PLAT and immunoinhibitors like CD274, PDCD1, PDCD1LG2, and CTLA4 and Figure 4F the relationships between PLAT and MHC molecules like TAP2, HLA-DOB, TAP1, and HLA-F. Figure 4G shows the relationship between PLAT and chemokines like CXCL10, CCL8, CCL18, and CCL7. Figure 4H shows the relationship between PLAT and chemokine receptors like CCR8, CXCR6, CCR1, and CCR5. The results mentioned above indicate that PLAT widely participates in adjusting many immune molecules in BC and influences the immune infiltration in TME.
Figure 4 Associations of the PLAT expression level with tumor immune infiltration in BC. (A) Comparison of the enrichment scores of 16 immune cells and 13 immune-related pathways between low- and high-expression groups. (B) The correlation of PLAT expression with infiltration levels of neutrophil, CD4+T cell, B cell, and dendritic cell in BC is available on the TIMER 2.0 database. (C) Correlations between the abundance of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) and PLAT (plus the four TILs with the highest correlation) in the TISIDB database. (DF) Correlations between immunomodulators and PLAT (plus the four immunomodulators with the highest correlation, respectively) in the TISIDB database. (G and H) Correlations between chemokines (or receptors) and PLAT (plus the four chemokines (or receptors) with the highest correlation, respectively) in the TISIDB database. The asterisks represent the statistical p-value (*p 0.05, **p 0.01, ***p 0.001).
After the studies mentioned above, we continued to explore the possible reasons for the difference in PLAT expression. The box plot shows the methylation degree of each methylation site of PLAT DNA. Sites cg03960326 and cg18460120 had a higher degree of methylation and sites cg22038738 and cg04563438 had lower methylation degree (Figure 5A). Subsequently, the association between DNA methylation level and gene expression was calculated. Figure 5B shows that there is a negative association between DNA methylation and gene expression on the whole. When analyzing a single site, it was found that the methylation levels of cg13880167, cg12091331, cg04563438, cg03960326, cg00491021, and cg22038738 were negatively correlated with gene expression (Figure 5C). After that, survival analysis was further conducted according to the methylation degree of each site. It was found that, among the six DNA methylation sites of PLAT that had a negative correlation with gene expression, the methylation degree of the cg03960326 site was significantly related to OS (Figure 5D). We further assessed the methylation differences of the cg03960326 site of PLAT DNA in different clinical feature groups. We can see that there are no distinctions in methylation levels between different TNM and stages. However, there existed differences in methylation levels of cg03960326 site in people with different menopause status, tumor histological types, and PAM50 molecular types (Figure 5E). These differences are contrary to the previous differences of PLAT gene in cases with different clinical features, which also verifies the negative relationship between DNA methylation and gene expression.
Figure 5 Correlation of DNA methylation level with PLAT expression and clinical features. (A) Methylation level of 8 methylation site in PLAT. (B) Correlation of PLAT expression with gross methylation level. (C) Correlation of PLAT expression with different methylation sites (cg13880167, cg12091331, cg04563438, cg03960326, cg00491021, and cg22038738). (D) High methylation level of cg03960326 site was associated with a poor OS in BC patient. (E) Methylation level of cg03960326 site was analyzed with different menopausal status, histological types and PAM50 molecular subtypes. The asterisks represent the statistical p-value (ns: p > 0.05, **p 0.01, ***p 0.001, ****p 0.0001).
PLAT, a serine protease, mainly takes part in the intravascular dissolution of blood clots.22 Previous studies have shown that PLAT promoter hypermethylation can down-regulate the expression of nasal polyps gene, resulting in excessive fibrin deposition, which can be used as a therapeutic target of NP.23 PLAT can also promote angiogenesis by mobilizing CD11 + cells.24 It can be applied to the treatment of acute stroke25,26 and non-small cell lung cancer.27 It is also an estrogen-induced protein in the human BC cell line.11 BC is one of the highest incidence rate diseases in the world, which has a poor prognosis. Early detection and timely treatment are the most effective methods to improve the survival rate of BC patients. Traditional prognostic factors include tumor type, grade, size, and lymph node status. They can provide some course information, but they are not very accurate. Tumor immunotherapy provides a new remedy option for BC. Therefore, we assessed the role of PLAT in BRCA.
We analyzed BC cases in the context of RNA-seq data, methylation profiles, and clinical characteristics achieved from TCGA. The findings revealed that the expression level of PLAT was lower in BC patients. And patients in an advanced stage or with a more aggressive histological type may have lower expression levels in general. Consistent with that, lower expression of PLAT in TCGABRCA profiles was related to shorter overall survival, especially in the luminal B subtype. So, we deem that higher PLAT expression is related to a better prognosis of BC. After that, univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses showed that PLAT was an independent prognostic factor affecting the prognosis of BC patients and could be used as a predictive marker.
The enrichment analysis showed that PLAT was related to the immune and tumor-associated pathway. Infiltrating immune cells are an essential component of TME.28 Recently, immunotherapy for the interaction between immune cells and BC cells has been developed as an alternative to classical anticancer therapy.29,30 PLAT has been affirmed to predict the prognosis of multiple tumor types such as colon cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer, and BC.31,32 There is evidence proving that tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) that existed before the treatment of BC can predict treatment response and improve prognosis.33 TIL plays a vital role in chemotherapy response and clinical prognosis of all subtypes of BC.34 In our study, the low expression subgroup of PLAT generally had higher levels of infiltration of immune cells and higher activity of immune-related pathways. PLAT expressed level had a negative correlation with the infiltration level of neutrophil, T cell CD4+, dendritic cell, and B cell. Meanwhile, it had a positive correlation with the infiltration level of T cell CD8+ and macrophage. PLAT expression is closely related to TILs, immunomodulatory factors, and chemokines. Our results verified the association between PLAT and the prognosis and immune infiltration of BC, suggesting that PLAT can help predict treatment response and improve prognosis.
DNA methylation plays a vital role in gene-expressed regulation, mainly related to transcriptional inhibition.35 Therefore, we continue to search for the possible causes of different gene expressions. Our results showed a negative relationship between the degree of DNA methylation and gene expression level. By further analyzing the methylation level of PLAT DNA in the cg03960326 site, which is significantly related to OS, methylation differences were observed in patients with different tumor histological types, molecular subtypes, and menopause. These differences are opposite to the previous differences of the PLAT gene in other clinical feature groups. This also verified that DNA methylation was negatively related to PLAT expression, which might cause PLAT expression differences.
Immune infiltration in the TME has been shown to play a critical role in cancer progression and occurrence and to affect clinical outcomes of cancer patients.36 In triple-negative BC, tumor-associated macrophages derived from peripheral blood monocytes promote tumor growth and progression by several mechanisms that include the secretion of inhibitory cytokines, the reduction of effector functions of TIL, and the promotion of Treg cells. Besides, tumor-associated macrophages have been shown to directly and indirectly modulate PD-1/PD-L1 expression in tumor environment.37 Immunotherapy has raised significant concern in the treatment of cancer, which aims to eliminate cancer cells by enhancing natural defenses. The blockade of PD-1/ PD-L1 and CTLA4 has achieved remarkable therapeutic success in multiple kinds of cancer, including BC. An in-depth understanding of immune infiltration cells in the TME is essential to uncover the underlying molecular mechanisms and provide new strategies to improve immunotherapeutic efficacy.
Previous analysis showed that PLAT, a tumor suppressor gene, has differential expression levels and independent prognostic value and is significantly correlated with tumor-related pathways and immune infiltrating cells in TME. However, one study has shown that PLAT cannot foresee the response to systemic adjuvant therapy.11 The presented research only shows the results of online databases. To further confirm this conclusion, we will conduct PCR and IHC on our clinical samples and further analyze the different clinical characteristics and survival information. Finally, the internal molecular mechanism of PLAT and tumor immune cell infiltration will be further explored. Therefore, further research is needed to improve the proof of the biological impact of PLAT.
PLAT can be considered a prognostic factor and biomarker to provide personalized treatment, improve the survival rate, and contribute to developing immunological treatment strategies.
BC, breast cancer; TME, tumor microenvironment; PLAT, tissue-type plasminogen activator; PLAU, urokinase type plasminogen activator; TCGA, The Cancer Genome Atlas; OS, overall survival; PFS, progression-free survival; GO, Gene Ontology; KEGG, Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes; IDC, invasive ductal carcinoma; ILC, invasive lobular carcinoma; TIL, tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes.
This study was approved by the institutional ethical committee of the First Affiliated Hospital with Nanjing Medical University.
We would like to acknowledge the TCGA, TIMER, and TISIDB databases for free use.
This study is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (BK20171506).
The authors report no conflicts of interest in this work.
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- Indian Pharma Congress: Gene-cell therapy, preventive medicine future of health care, says expert - Economic Times - January 25th, 2023 [January 25th, 2023]
- A blood test that identifies people at higher risk of miscarriage? Thats the goal of this award-winning Rutgers med student. - The Philadelphia... - January 19th, 2023 [January 19th, 2023]
- Gene Therapy: Genes As Medicine | Pfizer - January 6th, 2023 [January 6th, 2023]
- How Genomics will ensure a risk-free and beneficial treatment for good health and well-being - The Financial Express - December 28th, 2022 [December 28th, 2022]
- Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy Designation | FDA - December 18th, 2022 [December 18th, 2022]
- 3576 - Gene ResultCXCL8 C-X-C motif chemokine ligand 8 [ (human)] - November 23rd, 2022 [November 23rd, 2022]
- Study identifies new gene that drives colon cancer - EurekAlert - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- Updated Stroke Gene Panels: Rapid evolution of knowledge on monogenic causes of stroke | European Journal of Human Genetics - Nature.com - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- The challenges of translating CRISPR to the clinic - Labiotech.eu - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- Editas Medicine Presents Preclinical Data on EDIT-103 for Rhodopsin-associated Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa at the European Society of Gene... - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- 'We have to find a way': FDA seeks solutions to aid bespoke gene therapy - BioPharma Dive - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- Mathematical model could bring us closer to effective stem cell therapies - Michigan Medicine - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- Approval, Commercialization Highlighted at Cell & Gene Meeting on the Mesa - Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- CANbridge-UMass Chan Medical School Gene Therapy Research in Oral Presentation at the European Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ESGCT) 29th Annual... - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- Depression Treatment: How Genetic Testing Can Help Find the Right Medication - Dunya News - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- The Risk-Reward Proposition for CGT Clinical Trials - Applied Clinical Trials Online - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- Precision Medicine Could Get Even More Precise With Allarity Therapeutics Next-Generation Diagnostics - Benzinga - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- Decibel Therapeutics Receives FDA Clearance of IND Application for DB-OTO, a Gene Therapy Product Candidate Designed to Provide Hearing to Individuals... - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- Time for your medicine: unlocking the power of our body clocks - The Guardian - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- Replay establishes distinguished Scientific Advisory Board of genomic medicine and cell therapy experts - Yahoo Finance - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- Scientists Reappraise the Role of Zombie Cells That Anti-aging Medicine Has Sought to Eliminate - Neuroscience News - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- Forge Biologics Announces Updated Positive Clinical Data in RESKUE, a Novel Phase 1/2 Gene Therapy Trial for Patients with Krabbe Disease - Business... - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- Gene Expression Signatures Are Analyzed for Biomarkers of Response in HCC - Targeted Oncology - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- NHS England World-first national genetic testing service to deliver rapid life-saving checks for babies and kids - NHS England - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- The proteinprotein relationship that could mend a broken heart - RegMedNet - October 17th, 2022 [October 17th, 2022]
- Study finds microprotein correlated to Alzheimers risk - Daily Trojan Online - October 11th, 2022 [October 11th, 2022]
- Passage Bio Announces Appointment of William Chou, M.D. as Chief Executive Officer - Yahoo Finance - October 11th, 2022 [October 11th, 2022]
- Gene Therapy Rapidly Improves Night Vision in Adults with Congenital Blindness - Newswise - October 11th, 2022 [October 11th, 2022]
- Scientists Discover Protein Partners that Could Heal Heart Muscle | Newsroom - UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine - October 11th, 2022 [October 11th, 2022]
- The Pros and Cons of Lentiviral and Adeno-Associated Viral Vectors - The Medicine Maker - October 11th, 2022 [October 11th, 2022]
- Insights & Outcomes: Foreign DNA, quantum potholes and relapsing fever - Yale News - October 11th, 2022 [October 11th, 2022]
- Expediting IND applications with drug master files - BioPharma Dive - October 11th, 2022 [October 11th, 2022]
- UNC School of Medicine Awarded $3 Million to Lead Study to Reduce PTSD Frequency, Severity | Newsroom - UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine - October 11th, 2022 [October 11th, 2022]
- Lineage to Present at Alliance for Regenerative Medicine 2022 Cell & Gene Meeting on the Mesa - businesswire.com - October 8th, 2022 [October 8th, 2022]
- The Next Crispr Gene Editing IPO Could Be Near - Henry Herald - October 8th, 2022 [October 8th, 2022]
- 10-year CRISPR anniversary: How gene editing revolutionized medicine, and what lies ahead - Genetic Literacy Project - October 8th, 2022 [October 8th, 2022]
- Blood from a baby at birth can be gene sequenced to prevent diseases - USA TODAY - October 8th, 2022 [October 8th, 2022]
- What doctors wish patients knew about breast-cancer prevention - American Medical Association - October 8th, 2022 [October 8th, 2022]
- Growth in Cell and Gene Therapy Market - Pharmaceutical Technology Magazine - October 8th, 2022 [October 8th, 2022]
- Gene Editing Service Market 2022 : Top Players to Reflect Impressive Growth Rate till 2029: Caribou Biosciences, CRISPR Therapeutics, Merck KGaA,... - October 8th, 2022 [October 8th, 2022]
- Tip Sheet: $78 million to support new precision oncology institute, update on experimental gene therapy for herpes and the launch of Fred Hutch's new... - October 8th, 2022 [October 8th, 2022]
- Cell and Gene Therapy: Rewriting the Future of Medicine - Technology Networks - October 2nd, 2022 [October 2nd, 2022]
- Growth in Cell and Gene Therapy Market - BioPharm International - October 2nd, 2022 [October 2nd, 2022]
- CRISPR Therapeutics Announces FDA Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy (RMAT) Designation Granted to CTX130 for the Treatment of Cutaneous T-Cell... - October 2nd, 2022 [October 2nd, 2022]
- BioMarin Resubmits Biologics License Application (BLA) for Valoctocogene Roxaparvovec AAV Gene Therapy for Severe Hemophilia A to the FDA - PR... - October 2nd, 2022 [October 2nd, 2022]
- Fighting Breast and Ovarian Cancer With a Lupus Antibody - Yale School of Medicine - October 2nd, 2022 [October 2nd, 2022]
- This gene therapy company is testing new tech to 'switch off' diabetes and obesity with a pill - Euronews - October 2nd, 2022 [October 2nd, 2022]
- Tenaya Therapeutics to Participate in Inaugural Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Medical Societys 2022 Scientific Sessions - Yahoo Finance - October 2nd, 2022 [October 2nd, 2022]
- Risk of Alzheimer's dementia may be predicted with help of new tool Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis - Washington University... - October 2nd, 2022 [October 2nd, 2022]
- Tiny Sea Creature's Genes Shed Light on Evolution of Immunity - UPMC - October 2nd, 2022 [October 2nd, 2022]
- Who will get the call from Stockholm? It's time for STAT's 2022 Nobel Prize predictions - STAT - October 2nd, 2022 [October 2nd, 2022]
- Excision BioTherapeutics Awarded California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Grant to Support Ongoing Phase 1/2 Trial Evaluating EBT-101 as... - October 2nd, 2022 [October 2nd, 2022]
- NeuroVoices: Emma Ciafaloni, MD, on the Vast Expansion of Innovative Approaches to Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy - Neurology Live - October 2nd, 2022 [October 2nd, 2022]
- COVID mRNA Jabs and Testing Kicked Off This Industry of Drug Development: Here's What You Need to Know - The Epoch Times - October 2nd, 2022 [October 2nd, 2022]
- Kidney resident macrophages have distinct subpopulations and occupy distinct microenvironments - University of Alabama at Birmingham - October 2nd, 2022 [October 2nd, 2022]
- Nobel Prize for medicine: the full list of winners - The National - October 2nd, 2022 [October 2nd, 2022]
- The surprising link between circadian disruption and cancer may have to do with temperature - EurekAlert - October 2nd, 2022 [October 2nd, 2022]
- The global live cell imaging market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8.44% during 2022-2027 - Yahoo Finance - October 2nd, 2022 [October 2nd, 2022]
- Chroma Medicine Announces Formation of Scientific Advisory Board of Global Experts in Gene Editing and Cell and Gene Therapy - PR Newswire - September 20th, 2022 [September 20th, 2022]
- Ring Therapeutics Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent for its Anellovector Compositions - Yahoo Finance - September 20th, 2022 [September 20th, 2022]
- Cholesterol gene mutation: Why would a healthy 27-year-old have severe heart problems? - 69News WFMZ-TV - September 20th, 2022 [September 20th, 2022]
- Gene Therapy for Severe Hemophilia B Could Be More Cost Effective Than Current Treatments - Managed Healthcare Executive - September 20th, 2022 [September 20th, 2022]
- AVROBIO Receives Rare Pediatric Disease Designation from U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for First Gene Therapy in Development for Cystinosis... - September 20th, 2022 [September 20th, 2022]
- The Biggest CGT Breakthroughs Through the Eyes of Our 2022 Power List - The Medicine Maker - September 20th, 2022 [September 20th, 2022]
- Leading Virus Researcher to Chair UVA's Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology - UVA Health Newsroom - September 20th, 2022 [September 20th, 2022]
- Work remains on Tay-Sachs and other Ashkenazi genetic disorders J. - The Jewish News of Northern California - September 20th, 2022 [September 20th, 2022]
- Study Shows Genetic Link to Moving to the Beat of Music - Newswise - September 20th, 2022 [September 20th, 2022]
- Viewpoint: In the post Roe v Wade world, what changes should a biology textbook writer make to address the medical repercussions of Dobbs? - Genetic... - September 20th, 2022 [September 20th, 2022]
- Alnylam Receives Approval in Europe for AMVUTTRA (vutrisiran) for the Treatment of Hereditary Transthyretin-mediated (hATTR) Amyloidosis in Adult... - September 20th, 2022 [September 20th, 2022]
- CSL flexes gene therapy muscle with latest drug - Sydney Morning Herald - September 20th, 2022 [September 20th, 2022]
- The MIT Press releases new book on the science of the heart from cardiac expert Dr. Sian Harding - EurekAlert - September 20th, 2022 [September 20th, 2022]
- Global Pharmaceutical Contract Manufacturing Market is projected to reach a market value of US$329.7 Billion in 2032: Visiongain Reports Ltd - Yahoo... - September 20th, 2022 [September 20th, 2022]
- Alzheon Reports Industry-Leading Biomarker, Brain Preservation and Clinical Effects Following 12 Months of Treatment in Phase 2 Trial of Oral ALZ-801... - September 20th, 2022 [September 20th, 2022]
- Do You Have Lung Cancer With An EGFR Mutation? If So, The Drug Tagrisso Might Be Right For You Based On New Results From A 'Practice Changing' Trial -... - September 20th, 2022 [September 20th, 2022]
- Getting rid of unwanted transformed cells: Possible new directions in cancer therapy - EurekAlert - September 20th, 2022 [September 20th, 2022]
- Sven Kili on reconvening with the ISCT - The Medicine Maker - September 14th, 2022 [September 14th, 2022]