After experiencing many ups and downs, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy has reached a milestone as an anti-cancer method, as evidenced by the increasing number of clinical trials and approved products. Nonetheless, there is a real need to optimize CAR-T cell therapy and overcome its existing limitations. The importance of cellular starting material for generating CAR-T cells is undeniable, as the current personalized manufacturing approach is the main roadblock to providing a fast, affordable, and standard treatment for patients. Thus, developing an off-the-shelf CAR-T product is a leading focus in adoptive cell therapy. Several biotech companies worldwide are focused on developing an off-the-shelf CAR-T product from allogeneic sources. Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have unique characteristics, making them highly attractive among various allogeneic sources. IPSCs can be modified with CAR, undergo other intended gene manipulations, and then be differentiated into functional hematopoietic lineages with anti-cancer activity. Moreover, iPSCs provide an unlimited cell source, simplifying the setting of a standard treatment protocol by generating a homogenous population of resulting cells and reducing batch-to-batch inconsistency. In this review, we delve into the manufacturing of iPSC-derived CAR-T (iCAR-T) cells and discuss the path and challenges of their clinical translation. We also introduce some iPSC-derived cellular alternatives to conventional iCAR-αβ-T cells, including iCAR-T cells with a limited TCR diversity, iCAR-NK, iCAR-macrophages, and iCAR-neutrophils and discuss their relative advantages and disadvantages as well as their differentiation from iPSCs in compliance with cGMP. Finally, we reviewed iPSC-derived CAR-engineered cells being evaluated in clinical trials. 

Combining the induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-based immunotherapy: recent advances, challenges, and future prospects

Given their differentiation potential, human pluripotent stem cells (including embryonic stem cells, ESCs, and induced pluripotent stem cells, iPSCs) represent a powerful tool for a wide range of biomedical and clinical applications such as disease model, drug screening, cell therapy, and regenerative medicine. From a morphological and functional point of view, ESCs and iPSCs are very similar, but their real equivalence cannot be established by classical functional assays such as tetraploid complementation because of ethical limits. Therefore, since their discovery of iPSCs in 2006, several groups have investigated the transcriptomic, epigenomic, proteomic, and metabolomic profiles of ESCs and iPSCs to dissect their similarities and differences and to identify, if any exist, a molecular signature specific of each pluripotent stem cell line. Here, we report and summarize some of the most relevant studies based on the molecular comparison of ESCs and iPSCs. Collectively, these comparative studies show that although iPSCs are very similar to ESCs, they are still characterized by some specific molecular signatures that need to be further investigated to improve the use of iPSCs in basic research and clinical settings.

Induced pluripotent stem cells versus embryonic stem cells: a comprehensive overview of differences and similarities

Handle everyday research tasks with reliable, citation-backed results

Your personal Research Agent to handle research tasks with citation-backed results

Popular Tasks used by Researchers

How can I help with your research?

Meet SciSpace

Get more enhanced response by uploading the PDFs you want me to reference.

No relevant PDFs in your library

SciSpace is the AI research assistant for academics. Run systematic literature reviews on 280M+ papers, and write papers with cited sources. Trusted by 1M+ students, PhDs & researchers.

SciSpace | AI for Research

Analyze PDFs

Code & Manuscripts

Funding & Grants

Literature & Patents

Medical & Clinical Data

Systematic Review

Visualize & Present

Web & Data

Build a Google Scholar-like website for your research.

Build a website

Create charts and images for your research

Create a Chart

Write a paper for submission to a journal

Draft a manuscript

Patent Search

Design eye-catching scientific posters in minutes.

Scientific Poster Generation

Systematic Literature Review

One task is running at the moment. Your messages will be shown right after.

Drag and drop or click here to browse

Loved by <highlight>1 million+</highlight> researchers

Extract a list of specific topics and their sources from unstructured text

Topics

Compare and analyze relevant papers that matches with your search

Papers

Get insights from PDFs and bookmarked papers from your library

My library

Recent searches

Try searching for:

Catch AI-generated content in scholarly and non-scholarly content

{ai} Detector

Ai Writer

Get PDF Summaries, highlighted text explanations 

Chat with PDF

Effortlessly create in-text citations and bibliographies in APA and 2,500 other formats

Citation generator

Get explanations, summaries, and answers on academic papers

Ease up your research workflow with {scispace}'s cohort of exciting AI tools

Elevate your academic writing skills and convey your ideas the way you want

Paraphraser

Explore our range of reading and writing tools

Your file is being prepared and should be ready in a few minutes. If it's a large file, it might take a bit longer. You can close this window, and we'll email you the file when it's done.

You have reached a maximum limit of <strong>{limit}</strong> columns in the table. Remove at least <strong>1</strong> column to add or create another one.

G. Cuda

Author Tools

Chat about Author

Papers

Induced pluripotent stem cells versus embryonic stem cells: a comprehensive overview of differences and similarities