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

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

Nanotechnology for COVID-19: therapeutics and vaccine research

G Chauhan, MJ Madou, S Kalra, V Chopra, D Ghosh… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The current global health threat by the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) requires
an urgent deployment of advanced therapeutic options available. The role of …

Selective organ targeting (SORT) nanoparticles for tissue-specific mRNA delivery and CRISPR–Cas gene editing

Q Cheng, T Wei, L Farbiak, LT Johnson… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas gene editing and messenger RNA-based protein replacement therapy hold
tremendous potential to effectively treat disease-causing mutations with diverse cellular …

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 …

Cancer‐targeting nanoparticles for combinatorial nucleic acid delivery

HJ Vaughan, JJ Green, SY Tzeng - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Nucleic acids are a promising type of therapeutic for the treatment of a wide range of
conditions, including cancer, but they also pose many delivery challenges. For efficient and …

Nanoparticle-encapsulated siRNAs for gene silencing in the haematopoietic stem-cell niche

M Krohn-Grimberghe, MJ Mitchell, MJ Schloss… - Nature biomedical …, 2020 - nature.com
Bone-marrow endothelial cells in the haematopoietic stem-cell niche form a network of
blood vessels that regulates blood-cell traffic as well as the maintenance and function of …

Delivery of Tissue-Targeted Scalpels: Opportunities and Challenges for In Vivo CRISPR/Cas-Based Genome Editing

T Wei, Q Cheng, L Farbiak, DG Anderson, R Langer… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing has quickly emerged as a powerful breakthrough
technology for use in diverse settings across biomedical research and therapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] RNA nanotechnology-mediated cancer immunotherapy

YX Lin, Y Wang, S Blake, M Yu, L Mei, H Wang… - Theranostics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
RNA molecules (eg, siRNA, microRNA, and mRNA) have shown tremendous potential for
immunomodulation and cancer immunotherapy. They can activate both innate and adaptive …

[HTML][HTML] Nanomaterials for therapeutic RNA delivery

X Han, MJ Mitchell, G Nie - Matter, 2020 - cell.com
Recent years have witnessed tremendous developments and breakthroughs in the field of
RNA-based therapeutics. The distinct mechanisms of exogenous RNAs and analogs …

[HTML][HTML] Nanomedicine-based drug delivery towards tumor biological and immunological microenvironment

J Li, DJ Burgess - Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2020 - Elsevier
The complex tumor microenvironment is a most important factor in cancer development. The
biological microenvironment is composed of a variety of barriers including the extracellular …