mRNA-based therapeutics: powerful and versatile tools to combat diseases

S Qin, X Tang, Y Chen, K Chen, N Fan… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The therapeutic use of messenger RNA (mRNA) has fueled great hope to combat a wide
range of incurable diseases. Recent rapid advances in biotechnology and molecular …

mRNA vaccine era—mechanisms, drug platform and clinical prospection

S Xu, K Yang, R Li, L Zhang - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA)-based drugs, notably mRNA vaccines, have been
widely proven as a promising treatment strategy in immune therapeutics. The extraordinary …

RNA drugs and RNA targets for small molecules: principles, progress, and challenges

AM Yu, YH Choi, MJ Tu, RM TOUYZ - Pharmacological reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
RNA-based therapies, including RNA molecules as drugs and RNA-targeted small
molecules, offer unique opportunities to expand the range of therapeutic targets. Various …

From influenza to COVID-19: Lipid nanoparticle mRNA vaccines at the frontiers of infectious diseases

EH Pilkington, EJA Suys, NL Trevaskis, AK Wheatley… - Acta biomaterialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Vaccination represents the best line of defense against infectious diseases and is crucial in
curtailing pandemic spread of emerging pathogens to which a population has limited …

RNA-based therapeutics: from antisense oligonucleotides to miRNAs

S Bajan, G Hutvagner - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The first therapeutic nucleic acid, a DNA oligonucleotide, was approved for clinical use in
1998. Twenty years later, in 2018, the first therapeutic RNA-based oligonucleotide was …

The challenge and prospect of mRNA therapeutics landscape

Y Weng, C Li, T Yang, B Hu, M Zhang, S Guo… - Biotechnology …, 2020 - Elsevier
Messenger RNA (mRNA)-based therapeutics hold the potential to cause a major revolution
in the pharmaceutical industry because they can be used for precise and individualized …

Tools for translation: non-viral materials for therapeutic mRNA delivery

KA Hajj, KA Whitehead - Nature Reviews Materials, 2017 - nature.com
In recent years, messenger RNA (mRNA) has come into the spotlight as a versatile
therapeutic with the potential to prevent and treat a staggering range of diseases. Billions of …

Three decades of messenger RNA vaccine development

R Verbeke, I Lentacker, SC De Smedt, H Dewitte - Nano Today, 2019 - Elsevier
In the early nineties, pioneering steps were taken in the use of mRNA as a therapeutic tool
for vaccination. In the following decades, an improved understanding of the mRNA …

Dendritic cell-based immunotherapy

RL Sabado, S Balan, N Bhardwaj - Cell research, 2017 - nature.com
Immunotherapy using dendritic cell (DC)-based vaccination is an approved approach for
harnessing the potential of a patient's own immune system to eliminate tumor cells in …

Messenger RNA-based therapeutics and vaccines: what's beyond COVID-19?

D Li, C Liu, Y Li, R Tenchov, JM Sasso… - ACS pharmacology & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
With the rapid success in the development of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and with a
number of mRNA-based drugs ahead in the pipelines, mRNA has catapulted to the forefront …