Nanotechnology-based mRNA vaccines

S Chen, X Huang, Y Xue, E Álvarez-Benedicto… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract mRNA vaccines have emerged as a revolutionary tool to generate rapid and
precise immune responses against infectious diseases and cancers. Compared with …

Lipids and lipid derivatives for RNA delivery

Y Zhang, C Sun, C Wang, KE Jankovic… - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
RNA-based therapeutics have shown great promise in treating a broad spectrum of
diseases through various mechanisms including knockdown of pathological genes …

Challenges of storage and stability of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines

MN Uddin, MA Roni - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
In December 2019, a new and highly pathogenic coronavirus emerged—coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19), a disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome …

The replacement of helper lipids with charged alternatives in lipid nanoparticles facilitates targeted mRNA delivery to the spleen and lungs

ST LoPresti, ML Arral, N Chaudhary… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
The broad clinical application of mRNA therapeutics has been hampered by a lack of
delivery vehicles that induce protein expression in extrahepatic organs and tissues …

Difference in the lipid nanoparticle technology employed in three approved siRNA (Patisiran) and mRNA (COVID-19 vaccine) drugs

Y Suzuki, H Ishihara - Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics, 2021 - Elsevier
Nucleic acid therapeutics are developing into precise medicines that can manipulate
specific genes. However, the development of safe and effective delivery system for the target …

Lipid nanoparticles for nucleic acid delivery: Current perspectives

E Samaridou, J Heyes, P Lutwyche - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Nucleic Acid (NA) based therapeutics are poised to disrupt modern medicine and augment
traditional pharmaceutics in a meaningful way. However, a key challenge to advancing NA …

Extrahepatic targeting of lipid nanoparticles in vivo with intracellular targeting for future nanomedicines

T Nakamura, Y Sato, Y Yamada… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
A new era of nanomedicines that involve nucleic acids/gene therapy has been opened after
two decades in 21st century and new types of more efficient drug delivery systems (DDS) …

Magnetic nanoparticles in targeted drug delivery: a review

E Kianfar - Journal of Superconductivity and Novel Magnetism, 2021 - Springer
Magnetic nanoparticles are one of the most important and widely used types of
nanomaterials, whose unique properties make them special compared to other …

Lipid nanoparticle systems for enabling gene therapies

PR Cullis, MJ Hope - Molecular Therapy, 2017 - cell.com
Genetic drugs such as small interfering RNA (siRNA), mRNA, or plasmid DNA provide
potential gene therapies to treat most diseases by silencing pathological genes, expressing …

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 …