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New developments in delivery technology, materials, and molecular engineering for drug discovery

This Journal of Hematology & Oncology series covers new technology, materials, and models for drug discovery. Development and applications of organoids, 3D cultures, PDX modes, nano-molecules, AI technology, and single-cell maps for drug discovery are the focus.

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  1. The T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoires exhibits distinct signatures associated with COVID-19 severity. However, the precise identification of vaccine-induced SARS-CoV-2-specific TCRs and T-cell immunity mechani...

    Authors: Qian Zhang, Qing Liang, Rui Zhang, Nan Wang, Xu Xiao, Jiahao Shao and Kejia Wang
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2024 17:15
  2. Liquid biopsy, which is a minimally invasive procedure as an alternative to tissue biopsy, has been introduced as a new diagnostic/prognostic measure. By screening disease-related markers from the blood or oth...

    Authors: Young Jun Kim, Won-Yeop Rho, Seung-min Park and Bong-Hyun Jun
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2024 17:10
  3. Antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs) have emerged as a novel therapeutic strategy that has successfully reached patient treatment in different clinical scenarios. ADCs are formed by an antibody against a specific t...

    Authors: Alfonso López de Sá, Cristina Díaz-Tejeiro, Elisa Poyatos-Racionero, Cristina Nieto-Jiménez, Lucía Paniagua-Herranz, Adrián Sanvicente, Emiliano Calvo, Pedro Pérez-Segura, Víctor Moreno, Francisco Moris and Alberto Ocana
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2023 16:118
  4. Inflammation is a fundamental defensive response to harmful stimuli, but the overactivation of inflammatory responses is associated with most human diseases. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are a class of chemic...

    Authors: Jiatong Liu, Xiaoyue Han, Tingyue Zhang, Keyue Tian, Zhaoping Li and Feng Luo
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2023 16:116
  5. T cell engagers (TCEs) have been established as an emerging modality for hematologic malignancies, but solid tumors remain refractory. However, the upregulation of programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) is correlated ...

    Authors: Ziqiang Ding, Shuyang Sun, Xuan Wang, Xiaomei Yang, Wei Shi, Xianing Huang, Shenxia Xie, Fengzhen Mo, Xiaoqiong Hou, Aiqun Liu, Xiaobing Jiang, Zhuoran Tang and Xiaoling Lu
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2023 16:115
  6. T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is a type of hematologic tumor with malignant proliferation of hematopoietic progenitor cells. However, traditional clinical treatment of T-ALL included chemotherapy...

    Authors: Long Chen, Anqi Ren, Yuan Zhao, Hangyu Chen, Qifang Wu, Mengzhu Zheng, Zijian Zhang, Tongcun Zhang, Wu Zhong, Jian Lin and Haichuan Zhu
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2023 16:113
  7. Pancreatic cancer lacks effective therapy. Here, we reported two metastatic pancreatic cancer patients administrated with Claudin 18.2 (CLDN 18.2) CART therapy after the failure of standard therapy (NCT0458147...

    Authors: Changsong Qi, Tong Xie, Jun Zhou, Xicheng Wang, Jifang Gong, Xiaotian Zhang, Jian Li, Jiajia Yuan, Chang Liu and Lin Shen
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2023 16:102
  8. Cancers are a group of heterogeneous diseases characterized by the acquisition of functional capabilities during the transition from a normal to a neoplastic state. Powerful experimental and computational tool...

    Authors: Dezhi Huang, Naya Ma, Xinlei Li, Yang Gou, Yishuo Duan, Bangdong Liu, Jing Xia, Xianlan Zhao, Xiaoqi Wang, Qiong Li, Jun Rao and Xi Zhang
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2023 16:98
  9. The mRNA-based therapeutics have become the hot spot of biopharmaceutical industries in recent years. The landscape of this area is expanding from infectious disease to cancer, which needs to be summarized to ...

    Authors: Dawei Wu, Lingfeng Hu, Xin Wang, Yue Yu, Shuo-Peng Jia, Hui-Yao Huang, Zi-Wei Li, Jin-Feng Ma, Hai-Bo Zhu, Yu Tang and Ning Li
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2023 16:75
  10. Early detection and diagnosis of many cancers is very challenging. Late stage detection of a cancer always leads to high mortality rates. It is imperative to develop novel and more sensitive and effective diag...

    Authors: Xiangyi Kong, Peng Gao, Jing Wang, Yi Fang and Kuo Chu Hwang
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2023 16:74
  11. Hematologic malignancies (HMs) pose a serious threat to patients’ health and life, and the five-year overall survival of HMs remains low. The lack of understanding of the pathogenesis and the complex clinical ...

    Authors: Jinxin Li, Qiwei Wang, Yingli Han, Lingli Jiang, Siqi Lu, Beini Wang, Wenchang Qian, Meng Zhu, He Huang and Pengxu Qian
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2023 16:65
  12. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a fatal clonal hematopoietic malignancy, which results from the accumulation of several genetic aberrations in myeloid progenitor cells, with a worldwide 5-year survival prognos...

    Authors: Nicole Bäumer, Annika Scheller, Lisa Wittmann, Andreas Faust, Mara Apel, Subbaiah Chary Nimmagadda, Christiane Geyer, Katharina Grunert, Neele Kellmann, Matthias Peipp, Sareetha Kailayangiri, Matias Ezequiel Gutierrez Suburu, Cristian A. Strassert, Mathias Schenk, Lilo Greune, Christian Rüter…
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2022 15:171
  13. A novel recombinant SIRPα-Fc fusion protein, IMM01, was constructed and produced using an in-house developed CHO-K1 cell expression system, and the anti-tumor mechanism of IMM01 targeting the CD47-SIRPα pathwa...

    Authors: Jifeng Yu, Song Li, Dianze Chen, Dandan Liu, Huiqin Guo, Chunmei Yang, Wei Zhang, Li Zhang, Gui Zhao, Xiaoping Tu, Liang Peng, Sijin Liu, Xing Bai, Yongping Song, Zhongxing Jiang, Ruliang Zhang…
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2022 15:167
  14. This study prospectively compared the efficacy and safety between matched related donor-hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (MRD-HSCT) (n = 108) and immunosuppressive therapy (IST) plus eltrombopag (EPAG) (IS...

    Authors: Limin Liu, Meiqing Lei, Rong Fu, Bing Han, Xin Zhao, Rongrong Liu, Yanming Zhang, Wenjing Jiao, Miao Miao, Fengkui Zhang, Liansheng Zhang and Depei Wu
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2022 15:105
  15. Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), particularly primary HLH (pHLH), is a rare, life-threatening disease. Germline genetic deficiency of 12 known HLH genes impairs cytotoxic degranulation in natural kill...

    Authors: Xiaoman Bi, Qing Zhang, Lei Chen, Dan Liu, Yueying Li, Xiaoxi Zhao, Ya Zhang, Liping Zhang, Jingkun Liu, Chaoyi Wu, Zhigang Li, Yunze Zhao, Honghao Ma, Gang Huang, Xin Liu, Qian-fei Wang…
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2022 15:101
  16. Vascular endothelial growth factor receptors (VEGFRs) are a family of receptor protein tyrosine kinases that play an important role in the regulation of tumor-induced angiogenesis. Currently, VEGFR inhibitors ...

    Authors: Yun Liu, Yang Li, Yuxi Wang, Congcong Lin, Dan Zhang, Juncheng Chen, Liang Ouyang, Fengbo Wu, Jifa Zhang and Lei Chen
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2022 15:89
  17. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy has demonstrated remarkable success in the treatment of hematologic malignancies, while the success has not yet been replicated in solid tumors. To some extent, t...

    Authors: Zhichen Sun, Rutian Li, Yun Shen, Siyi Tan, Naiqing Ding, Ruihan Xu, Xinyue Wang, Jia Wei, Baorui Liu and Fanyan Meng
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2022 15:29
  18. Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) have been defined as a class of RNA molecules transcribed from the genome but not encoding proteins, such as microRNAs, long non-coding RNAs, Circular RNAs, and Piwi-interacting RNAs. ...

    Authors: Rongyan Zhao, Jiahui Fu, Lingjuan Zhu, Yi Chen and Bo Liu
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2022 15:14
  19. Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a common malignant heterogeneous hematopoietic disease with very low average 5-year survival rate due to the refractory feature and high rate of relapse. CD123 is highly express...

    Authors: Shilin Xu, Meichen Zhang, Xiaocui Fang, Jie Meng, Haiyan Xing, Doudou Yan, Jian Liu, Yanlian Yang, Tao Wen, Weiqi Zhang, Jianxiang Wang, Chen Wang and Haiyan Xu
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2021 14:193
  20. Antibody-based therapies targeting CD38 are currently used as single agents as well as in combination regimens for multiple myeloma, a malignant plasma cell disorder. In this study, we aimed to develop anti-CD...

    Authors: Elodie Duray, Margaux Lejeune, Frederic Baron, Yves Beguin, Nick Devoogdt, Ahmet Krasniqi, Yoline Lauwers, Yong Juan Zhao, Matthias D’Huyvetter, Mireille Dumoulin and Jo Caers
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2021 14:183
  21. The pathogenesis of chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is the formation of the BCR/ABL protein, which is encoded by the bcr/abl fusion gene, possessing abnormal tyrosine kinase activity. Despite the wide applicati...

    Authors: Guoyun Jiang, Zhenglan Huang, Ying Yuan, Kun Tao and Wenli Feng
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2021 14:139
  22. Targeting pathogenic proteins with small-molecule inhibitors (SMIs) has become a widely used strategy for treating malignant tumors. However, most intracellular proteins have been proven to be undruggable due ...

    Authors: Haobin Li, Jinyun Dong, Maohua Cai, Zhiyuan Xu, Xiang-Dong Cheng and Jiang-Jiang Qin
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2021 14:138
  23. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell-derived membrane structures enclosing proteins, lipids, RNAs, metabolites, growth factors, and cytokines. EVs have emerged as essential intercellular communication regulat...

    Authors: Zhijie Weng, Bowen Zhang, Chenzhou Wu, Fanyuan Yu, Bo Han, Bo Li and Longjiang Li
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2021 14:136
  24. The bispecific antibody (bsAbs) research around the world has undergone great changes. We analyzed the global trend of bsAbs research and compared the differences in clinical research of bsAbs between China an...

    Authors: Zhonghan Zhang, Fan Luo, Jiaxin Cao, Feiteng Lu, Yang Zhang, Yuxiang Ma, Kangmei Zeng, Li Zhang and Hongyun Zhao
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2021 14:124
  25. Single-cell sequencing, including genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics and metabolomics sequencing, is a powerful tool to decipher the cellular and molecular landscape at a single-cell resolution...

    Authors: Yalan Lei, Rong Tang, Jin Xu, Wei Wang, Bo Zhang, Jiang Liu, Xianjun Yu and Si Shi
    Citation: Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2021 14:91