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ReviewLife medicine2025

Pluripotent stem cell-based immunotherapy: advances in translational research, cell differentiation, and gene modifications.

Qi Lei, Hongkui Deng, Shicheng Sun

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Review in Life medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

3 authors.

Qi LeiDepartment of Cell Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Stem Cell Research Center, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China.
Hongkui DengDepartment of Cell Biology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Stem Cell Research Center, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing 100191, China.
Shicheng SunChangping Laboratory, Beijing 102206, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9584-9909

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell-based immunotherapy, recognized as living drugs, is revolutionizing clinical treatment to advanced cancer and shaping the landscape of biomedical research for complex diseases. The differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) emerges as a novel platform with the potential to generate an unlimited supply of therapeutic immune cells, especially when coupled with gene modification techniques. PSC-based immunotherapy is expected to meet the vast clinical demand for living drugs. Here, we examine recent preclinical and clinical advances in PSC-based immunotherapy, focusing on PSC gene modification strategies and differentiation methods for producing therapeutic immune cells. We also discuss opportunities in this field and challenges in cell quality and safety and stresses the need for further research and transparency to unlock the full potential of PSC immunotherapies.

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differentiationgene-editingimmunotherapyoff-the-shelfpluripotent stem cells

Identifiers

PMID40110110
PMCPMC11916900

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