Search Results - "Weissman, Irving L"
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The Role of Efferocytosis in Atherosclerosis
Published in Circulation (New York, N.Y.) (31-01-2017)“…The necrotic core has long been a hallmark of the vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque. Although apoptotic cells are cleared quickly in almost all other tissue…”
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Phagocytosis checkpoints as new targets for cancer immunotherapy
Published in Nature reviews. Cancer (01-10-2019)“…Cancer immunotherapies targeting adaptive immune checkpoints have substantially improved patient outcomes across multiple metastatic and treatment-refractory…”
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Stem cells are units of natural selection for tissue formation, for germline development, and in cancer development
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (21-07-2015)“…It is obvious that natural selection operates at the level of individuals and collections of individuals. Nearly two decades ago we showed that in…”
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Hematopoietic stem cell: self-renewal versus differentiation
Published in Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Systems biology and medicine (01-11-2010)“…The mammalian blood system, containing more than 10 distinct mature cell types, stands on one specific cell type, hematopoietic stem cell (HSC). Within the…”
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Tumorigenicity as a clinical hurdle for pluripotent stem cell therapies
Published in Nature medicine (01-08-2013)“…There is much interest in the applications of pluripotent stem cells for regenerative medicine. In this Perspective, the authors discuss the factors that might…”
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A molecular cell atlas of the human lung from single-cell RNA sequencing
Published in Nature (London) (26-11-2020)“…Although single-cell RNA sequencing studies have begun to provide compendia of cell expression profiles 1 – 9 , it has been difficult to systematically…”
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Quiescent Hematopoietic Stem Cells Accumulate DNA Damage during Aging that Is Repaired upon Entry into Cell Cycle
Published in Cell stem cell (03-07-2014)“…Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) maintain homeostasis and regenerate the blood system throughout life. It has been postulated that HSCs may be uniquely capable…”
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Clonal-level lineage commitment pathways of hematopoietic stem cells in vivo
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (22-01-2019)“…While the aggregate differentiation of the hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) population has been extensively studied, little is known about the lineage commitment…”
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Pre-Clinical Development of a Humanized Anti-CD47 Antibody with Anti-Cancer Therapeutic Potential
Published in PloS one (21-09-2015)“…CD47 is a widely expressed cell surface protein that functions as a regulator of phagocytosis mediated by cells of the innate immune system, such as…”
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CD47 Blockade by Hu5F9-G4 and Rituximab in Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Published in The New England journal of medicine (01-11-2018)“…An antibody to CD47 used in combination with rituximab induced responses in half of a small group of patients with refractory B-cell lymphoma. Inhibiting the…”
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Breaking Down the Barriers to Precision Cancer Nanomedicine
Published in Trends in biotechnology (Regular ed.) (01-02-2017)“…Nanomedicine offers unique advantages in treating human cancers. However, physiological and pathological barriers within normal and disease tissues, which are…”
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Preleukemic mutations in human acute myeloid leukemia affect epigenetic regulators and persist in remission
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (18-02-2014)“…Cancer is widely characterized by the sequential acquisition of genetic lesions in a single lineage of cells. Our previous studies have shown that, in acute…”
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Mapping the Pairwise Choices Leading from Pluripotency to Human Bone, Heart, and Other Mesoderm Cell Types
Published in Cell (14-07-2016)“…Stem-cell differentiation to desired lineages requires navigating alternating developmental paths that often lead to unwanted cell types. Hence, comprehensive…”
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Hoxb5 marks long-term haematopoietic stem cells and reveals a homogenous perivascular niche
Published in Nature (London) (11-02-2016)“…Until recently, complex multi-parameters were required for the isolation and identification of haematopoietic stem cells, complicating study of their biology…”
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Existing cardiomyocytes generate cardiomyocytes at a low rate after birth in mice
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (17-06-2014)“…The mammalian heart has long been considered a postmitotic organ, implying that the total number of cardiomyocytes is set at birth. Analysis of cell division…”
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Identification of the Human Skeletal Stem Cell
Published in Cell (20-09-2018)“…Stem cell regulation and hierarchical organization of human skeletal progenitors remain largely unexplored. Here, we report the isolation of a self-renewing…”
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Reactivation of the pluripotency program precedes formation of the cranial neural crest
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (05-02-2021)“…During development, cells progress from a pluripotent state to a more restricted fate within a particular germ layer. However, cranial neural crest cells…”
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New tools for studying microglia in the mouse and human CNS
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (22-03-2016)“…The specific function of microglia, the tissue resident macrophages of the brain and spinal cord, has been difficult to ascertain because of a lack of tools to…”
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Unifying mechanism for different fibrotic diseases
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (02-05-2017)“…Fibrotic diseases are not well-understood. They represent a number of different diseases that are characterized by the development of severe organ fibrosis…”
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Therapeutic Targeting of the Macrophage Immune Checkpoint CD47 in Myeloid Malignancies
Published in Frontiers in oncology (22-01-2020)“…In recent years, immunotherapies have been clinically investigated in AML and other myeloid malignancies. While most of these are focused on stimulating the…”
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