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The era of bioengineering: how will this affect the next generation of cancer immunotherapy?

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Translational Medicine, June 2017
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Title
The era of bioengineering: how will this affect the next generation of cancer immunotherapy?
Published in
Journal of Translational Medicine, June 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12967-017-1244-2
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Michele Graciotti, Cristiana Berti, Harm-Anton Klok, Lana Kandalaft

Abstract

Immunotherapy consists of activating the patient's immune system to fight cancer and has the great potential of preventing future relapses thanks to immunological memory. A great variety of strategies have emerged to harness the immune system against tumors, from the administration of immunomodulatory agents that activate immune cells, to therapeutic vaccines or infusion of previously activated cancer-specific T cells. However, despite great recent progress many difficulties still remain, which prevent the widespread use of immunotherapy. Some of these limitations include: systemic toxicity, weak immune cellular responses or persistence over time and most ultimately costly and time-consuming procedures. Synthetic and natural biomaterials hold great potential to address these hurdles providing biocompatible systems capable of targeted local delivery, co-delivery, and controlled and/or sustained release. In this review we discuss some of the bioengineered solutions and approaches developed so far and how biomaterials can be further implemented to help and shape the future of cancer immunotherapy. The bioengineering strategies here presented constitute a powerful toolkit to develop safe and successful novel cancer immunotherapies.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 63 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 17%
Researcher 9 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 11%
Student > Bachelor 6 10%
Student > Master 6 10%
Other 10 16%
Unknown 14 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 9 14%
Immunology and Microbiology 9 14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 7 11%
Chemistry 6 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 8%
Other 16 25%
Unknown 11 17%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 November 2017.
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#13,322,812
of 22,981,247 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Translational Medicine
#1,530
of 4,016 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#156,065
of 316,590 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Journal of Translational Medicine
#27
of 72 outputs
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