Chiara Brusa
Impact of Microfluidic Flow on mRNA Transfection Efficiency.
Rel. Gianluca Ciardelli, Alexandra Stubelius. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Biomedica, 2026
Abstract
The genetic engineering of immune cells has become one of the most promising directions in modern medicine, offering new therapeutic possibilities for the treatment of cancer. Among these, chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy has achieved remarkable outcomes in haematological malignancies by genetically engineering a patient's own T cells to recognise and eliminate tumour cells. However, the complexity and high cost of manufacturing CAR-T cells outside the body have encouraged the exploration of a fundamentally different approach: delivering genetic material directly into circulating T cells in vivo, bypassing the need for cell extraction and manipulation. Synthetic mRNA has gained considerable attention as a therapeutic cargo for this purpose, offering transient, non-integrating gene expression without the safety concerns associated with viral vectors.
A critical and largely unexplored aspect of this strategy, however, is that in vivo delivery of genetic material to T cells occurs in a dynamic mechanical environment, as circulating T cells are continuously exposed to fluid shear stress generated by blood flow
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