A meta-analysis in BMC Ophthalmology found distinct gut microbiome compositional and functional alterations in diabetic retinopathy. The review identified depleted SCFA-producing bacteria, enriched pro-inflammatory bacteria, and dysregulated metabolic pathways.
Metabolic pathway scores consistently distinguished patients who developed severe neurologic events after CAR T-cell therapy across six clinical trials, surpassing traditional inflammatory markers in predictive performance.
Scientists have developed multiple breakthrough delivery systems for gene editing and mRNA therapies, including a simple amino acid supplement that increases delivery 20-fold and a CRISPR gene drive that reverses antibiotic resistance in bacterial populations.
Researchers discovered that adding three common amino acids to lipid nanoparticles dramatically improves mRNA and CRISPR gene editing delivery, boosting efficiency up to 20-fold and raising gene editing success rates from 25% to nearly 90%.
Scientists have developed two breakthrough approaches to dramatically enhance gene editing and mRNA therapy delivery: a simple amino acid supplement that increases CRISPR efficiency to nearly 90 percent, and a self-replicating CRISPR system that spreads between cells like a virus.
MIT chemical engineers developed a large language model that optimizes codon sequences for protein production in industrial yeast, boosting efficiency for six proteins including human growth hormone and cancer antibodies.
