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Record W4406782239 · doi:10.1038/s44385-024-00006-6

Bacterial hitchhiking with drug-loaded nanoparticles as a drug delivery strategy for cancer immunotherapy

2025· article· en· W4406782239 on OpenAlex

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.

Bibliographic record

Venuenpj Biomedical Innovations. · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicCancer Research and Treatments
Canadian institutionsInstitute of GeneticsMcGill UniversityUniversité de MontréalMcGill University Health Centre
FundersFonds de Recherche du Québec - SantéCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchMcGill University Health CentreNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanada Research ChairsMcGill University
KeywordsDrugDrug deliveryCancer immunotherapyImmunotherapyCancerMedicinePharmacologyNanotechnologyMaterials scienceInternal medicine

Abstract

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Select strains of bacteria show significant therapeutic promise in oncology, but there are major limitations for their clinical implementation, including their fast clearance from the circulation and dose-limiting toxicity. To address this challenge, we propose delivering bacteria alongside drug-loaded nanoparticles to reduce the premature clearance of bacteria from the circulation and improve their therapeutic efficacy. We evaluated the ability of the bacterium Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense, an environmental isolate that holds promise as an anti-cancer immunotherapy, to carry drug-loaded nanoliposomes into melanoma tumors. Using the B16F10 melanoma mouse model, we demonstrated that when injected locally, the bacteria can significantly reduce tumor growth while inducing a strong immune response. Further, we showed that drug-loaded nanoliposomes can be conjugated to the surface of bacteria improving their tumoral delivery and yielding a stronger anticancer response when delivered systemically. These results suggest that bacterial hitchhiking is a promising systemic drug delivery strategy for cancer immunotherapy.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.243
Threshold uncertainty score0.428

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.326
Teacher spread0.310 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it