Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Modified fly cultured cells as a biotherapeutic? Study suggests this could one day be an effective approach

Roy DG, Power AT, Bourgeois-Daigneault MC, Falls T, Ferreira L, Stern A, Tanese de Souza C, McCart JA, Stojdl DF, Lichty BD, Atkins H, Auer RC, Bell JC, Le Boeuf F. Programmable insect cell carriers for systemic delivery of integrated cancer biotherapy. J Control Release. 2015 Dec 28;220(Pt A):210-21. PMID: 26482080.

From the abstract: "Due to cancer's genetic complexity, significant advances in the treatment of metastatic disease will require sophisticated, multi-pronged therapeutic approaches. Here we demonstrate the utility of a Drosophila melanogaster cell platform for the production and in vivo delivery of multi-gene biotherapeutic systems. We show that cultured Drosophila S2 cell carriers can stably propagate oncolytic viral therapeutics that are highly cytotoxic for mammalian cancer cells without adverse effects on insect cell viability or gene expression. Drosophila cell carriers administered systemically to immunocompetent animals trafficked to tumors to deliver multiple biotherapeutics with little apparent off-target tissue homing or toxicity, resulting in a therapeutic effect. ..."

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