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ReviewNature biomedical engineering2025

Microfluidic technologies for enhancing the potency, predictability and affordability of adoptive cell therapies.

Zongjie Wang, Shana O Kelley

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Review in Nature biomedical engineering, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Zongjie WangChan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9900-7197
Shana O KelleyChan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. shana.kelley@northwestern.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3360-5359

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development and wider adoption of adoptive cell therapies is constrained by complex and costly manufacturing processes and by inconsistent efficacy across patients. Here we discuss how microfluidic and other fluidic devices can be implemented at each stage of cell manufacturing for adoptive cell therapies, from the harvesting and isolation of the cells to their editing, culturing and functional selection. We suggest that precise and controllable microfluidic systems can streamline the development of these therapies by offering scalability in cell production, bolstering the efficacy and predictability of the therapies and improving their cost-effectiveness and accessibility for broader populations of patients with cancer.

Indexed as

Cell- and Tissue-Based TherapyImmunotherapy, AdoptiveMicrofluidic Analytical TechniquesMicrofluidicsAnimalsCell Culture TechniquesCost-Benefit AnalysisHumansNeoplasms

Identifiers

PMID39953325

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