Identification of Shared Neoantigens in -Related Breast Cancer.

Personalized neoantigen-based cancer vaccines have been shown to be safe and immunogenic in cancer patients; however, the manufacturing process can be costly and bring about delays in treatment. Using off-the-shelf cancer vaccines targeting shared neoantigens may circumvent these problems. Unique mutational signatures and similar phenotypes found among -mutated breast cancer make it an ideal candidate for discovering shared neoantigens within the group.

Induced pluripotent stem cell line from a mouse model of human azoospermia with a frameshift mutation Tex11_1260Ins(TT).

Infertility is a common disease that impacts 15% of reproductive age couples worldwide, and genetic causes are implicated in about half of those cases. Non-obstructive azoospermia is a severe form of male infertility that features spermatogenic failure resulting in no sperm in the ejaculate and severely reduces the chance to have biological children. We created a Tex11_1260Ins(TT) (1260GATA → TTGGTA) mutant mouse that models the Tex11_1258(TT) mutation identified from a patient with nonobstructive azoospermia.

Recent advances: fertility preservation and fertility restoration options for males and females.

Fertility preservation is the process of saving gametes, embryos, gonadal tissues and/or gonadal cells for individuals who are at risk of infertility due to disease, medical treatments, age, genetics, or other circumstances. Adult patients have the options to preserve eggs, sperm, or embryos that can be used in the future to produce biologically related offspring with assisted reproductive technologies. These options are not available to all adults or to children who are not yet producing mature eggs or sperm.