Critical review of nucleic acid nanotechnology to identify gaps and inform a strategy for accelerated clinical translation

KA Afonin, MA Dobrovolskaia, W Ke… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
With numerous recent advances, the field of therapeutic nucleic acid nanotechnology is now
poised for clinical translation supported by several examples of FDA-approved nucleic acid …

Opportunities, barriers, and a strategy for overcoming translational challenges to therapeutic nucleic acid nanotechnology

KA Afonin, MA Dobrovolskaia, G Church… - Therapeutic RNA …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
606Recent clinical successes using therapeutic nucleic acids (TNAs) have accelerated the
transition of nucleic acid nanotechnology toward therapeutic applications. Significant …

Nucleic acid delivery and nanoparticle design for COVID vaccines

JL Andresen, OS Fenton - MRS bulletin, 2021 - Springer
Nucleic acid therapeutics offer a new paradigm to rapidly respond to global health problems.
The versatility of nucleic acids, especially in RNA therapies, provides the ability to tune …

Nanotechnology‐Assisted RNA Delivery: From Nucleic Acid Therapeutics to COVID‐19 Vaccines

C Rinoldi, SS Zargarian, P Nakielski, X Li… - Small …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, the main quest of science has been the pioneering of the groundbreaking
biomedical strategies needed for achieving a personalized medicine. Ribonucleic acids …

Overcoming pharmaceutical bottlenecks for nucleic acid drug development

M Lu, H Xing, A Zheng, Y Huang… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and swift
approval of two mRNA vaccines have put nucleic acid therapeutics in the spotlight of both …

Challenges in optimizing RNA nanostructures for large-scale production and controlled therapeutic properties

M Chandler, M Panigaj, LA Rolband, KA Afonin - Nanomedicine, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Nucleic acids have been utilized to construct an expansive collection of nanoarchitectures
varying in design, physicochemical properties, cellular processing and biomedical …

Next‐generation vaccines: nanoparticle‐mediated DNA and mRNA delivery

W Ho, M Gao, F Li, Z Li, XQ Zhang… - Advanced healthcare …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Nucleic acid vaccines are a method of immunization aiming to elicit immune responses akin
to live attenuated vaccines. In this method, DNA or messenger RNA (mRNA) sequences are …

Nanoparticle delivery systems for DNA/RNA and their potential applications in nanomedicine

H Shen, X Huang, J Min, S Le, Q Wang… - Current topics in …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
The rapid development of nanotechnology has a great influence on the fields of biology,
physiology, and medicine. Over recent years, nanoparticles have been widely presented as …

Noble Nanomedicine: Celebrating Groundbreaking mRNA Vaccine Innovations

WCW Chan, N Artzi, C Chen, X Chen, D Ho, T Hu… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications
that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. Early research …

Improved nucleic acid therapy with advanced nanoscale biotechnology

Y Weng, Q Huang, C Li, Y Yang, X Wang, J Yu… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2020 - cell.com
Due to a series of systemic and intracellular obstacles in nucleic acid (NA) therapy, including
fast degradation in blood, renal clearance, poor cellular uptake, and inefficient endosomal …