Design of therapeutic biomaterials to control inflammation

Z Tu, Y Zhong, H Hu, D Shao, R Haag… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Inflammation plays an important role in the response to danger signals arising from damage
to our body and in restoring homeostasis. Dysregulated inflammatory responses occur in …

Vaccine adjuvants: mechanisms and platforms

T Zhao, Y Cai, Y Jiang, X He, Y Wei, Y Yu… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Adjuvants are indispensable components of vaccines. Despite being widely used in
vaccines, their action mechanisms are not yet clear. With a greater understanding of the …

Size-Dependent In Vivo Transport of Nanoparticles: Implications for Delivery, Targeting, and Clearance

M Xu, Y Qi, G Liu, Y Song, X Jiang, B Du - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Understanding the in vivo transport of nanoparticles provides guidelines for designing
nanomedicines with higher efficacy and fewer side effects. Among many factors, the size of …

Designing spatial and temporal control of vaccine responses

GA Roth, VCTM Picece, BS Ou, W Luo… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Vaccines are the key technology to combat existing and emerging infectious diseases.
However, increasing the potency, quality and durability of the vaccine response remains a …

Bioengineered nanogels for cancer immunotherapy

X Ma, SJ Li, Y Liu, T Zhang, P Xue, Y Kang… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent years have witnessed increasingly rapid advances in nanocarrier-based
biomedicine aimed at improving treatment paradigms for cancer. Nanogels serve as …

Self-assembled mRNA vaccines

J Kim, Y Eygeris, M Gupta, G Sahay - Advanced drug delivery reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract mRNA vaccines have evolved from being a mere curiosity to emerging as COVID-
19 vaccine front-runners. Recent advancements in the field of RNA technology, vaccinology …

Enhancing cancer immunotherapy with nanomedicine

DJ Irvine, EL Dane - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Therapeutic targeting of the immune system in cancer is now a clinical reality and marked
successes have been achieved, most notably through the use of checkpoint blockade …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of lipid nanoparticle size on mRNA vaccine immunogenicity

KJ Hassett, J Higgins, A Woods, B Levy, Y Xia… - Journal of Controlled …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lipid nanoparticles (LNP) are effective delivery vehicles for messenger RNA (mRNA) and
have shown promise for vaccine applications. Yet there are no published reports detailing …

A materials-science perspective on tackling COVID-19

Z Tang, N Kong, X Zhang, Y Liu, P Hu, S Mou… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
The ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic highlights the importance of materials science in
providing tools and technologies for antiviral research and treatment development. In this …

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 …