March 2023 Volume 19, Issue 3

March 2023 Magazine Front Cover

Volume 19, Issue 3 | March 2023

March 2023

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Editor's Focus

A dog biting the words A Deadly Bite is drawn over a green background, and orange colored rabies viruses are pictured next to the dog.

Better rabies treatments bite back

Symptomatic rabies has no cure, but recent advances in rabies structural biology and antibody cocktails point to better treatments on the horizon.
A zoomed-in blood vessel from an arm shows a CAR T cell binding to a surface antigen on a cancer cell.

Explained: How does CAR T cell therapy work?

By engineering immune cells to effectively attack cancer cells, researchers established a new paradigm for cancer therapy. 

Disease Pathways

A drawing of a scientist in a white lab coat and glasses stares at a drawing of the gut with colorful microbes within it.

The path to treating Parkinson’s disease begins in the gut

New research is unraveling the connection between the gut microbiome and Parkinson’s disease, revealing potential gut-targeted therapeutic strategies.

Infectious Disease

A brown-haired man sneezes, the droplets are visible in the sun.

Mining mucus for drug inspiration

Therapeutics that mimic or manipulate components of mucus may protect against deadly infections.

Editors Insight

Dots and interconnected lines are superimposed over a crowd of people.

A conference and a COVID-19 close call

As scientific conferences return to in person programming, we still need COVID-19 precautions.

Tools & Techniques

A woman with blond hair exhales on a cold day, forming a cloud of white vapor.

Detecting disease in breath

Researchers are rooting through the concoction of compounds in exhaled breath vapor for metabolic manifestations of COVID-19 and cancer.
Florian Schmidt wears a white and green lab coat while working in a lab.

Bacterial biosensors eavesdrop on the gut

Genetically engineered bacteria could help diagnose or monitor gut diseases.

Cell Therapy

A view of 3D pox viruses through a microscope.

Treating cancer with a dose of the pox

The live virus in the smallpox vaccine boosts the activity of cancer-killing immune cells for hard-to-treat tumors.
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An illustration of three immune cells attacking a cancer cell, representing the mechanism of chimeric antigen receptor-based cell therapy

Cell therapy's next frontiers

As cell therapy evolves rapidly, what advancements are on the horizon? 
An illustration of a human heart on top of a DNA strand

Reversing rejection: gene therapy in modern transplantation

Emerging gene editing approaches pave the way for safer, more successful transplants.
An 3D illustration of protein molecules in different colors

Identifying druggable therapeutic targets

Effective target identification is central to drug discovery, but finding the right drug target is not as simple as it may seem in theory. 
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