Unlocking the promise of mRNA therapeutics

E Rohner, R Yang, KS Foo, A Goedel… - Nature biotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
The extraordinary success of mRNA vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
has renewed interest in mRNA as a means of delivering therapeutic proteins. Early clinical …

Exploiting the biogenesis of extracellular vesicles for bioengineering and therapeutic cargo loading

J Rädler, D Gupta, A Zickler, SEL Andaloussi - Molecular Therapy, 2023 - cell.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are gaining increasing attention for diagnostic and therapeutic
applications in various diseases. These natural nanoparticles benefit from favorable safety …

Identification of storage conditions stabilizing extracellular vesicles preparations

A Görgens, G Corso, DW Hagey… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) play a key role in many physiological and pathophysiological
processes and hold great potential for therapeutic and diagnostic use. Despite significant …

The cellular response to extracellular vesicles is dependent on their cell source and dose

DW Hagey, M Ojansivu, BR Bostancioglu, O Saher… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have been established to play important roles in cell-cell
communication and shown promise as therapeutic agents. However, we still lack a basic …

Identification of scaffold proteins for improved endogenous engineering of extracellular vesicles

W Zheng, J Rädler, H Sork, Z Niu, S Roudi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are gaining ground as next-generation drug delivery modalities.
Genetic fusion of the protein of interest to a scaffold protein with high EV-sorting ability …

Targeted therapy using engineered extracellular vesicles: principles and strategies for membrane modification

Q Liu, D Li, X Pan, Y Liang - Journal of nanobiotechnology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are 30–150 nm membrane-bound vesicles naturally
secreted by cells and play important roles in intercellular communication by delivering …

Cell-derived extracellular vesicles for CRISPR/Cas9 delivery: engineering strategies for cargo packaging and loading

Y Liang, Z Iqbal, J Wang, L Xu, X Xu, K Ouyang… - Biomaterials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Genome editing technology has emerged as a potential therapeutic tool for treating
incurable diseases. In particular, the discovery of clustered regularly interspaced short …

Manufactured extracellular vesicles as human therapeutics: challenges, advances, and opportunities

S Estes, K Konstantinov, JD Young - Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 2022 - Elsevier
Highlights•EVs come in two classes: native or engineered with defined therapeutic
entity.•Advances in engineering EVs to load cargo have enhanced potency.•High-density …

Peritoneal M2 macrophage-derived extracellular vesicles as natural multitarget nanotherapeutics to attenuate cytokine storms after severe infections

Y Wang, S Liu, L Li, L Li, X Zhou, M Wan, P Lou… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cytokine storms are a primary cause of multiple organ damage and death after severe
infections, such as SARS-CoV-2. However, current single cytokine-targeted strategies …

Genetically engineered biomimetic nanoparticles for targeted delivery of mRNA to treat rheumatoid arthritis

J Chen, J Tan, J Li, W Cheng, L Ke, A Wang… - Small …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In addition to inhibiting persistent inflammation, phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted
from chromosome 10 (PTEN) is known as an important therapeutic target for alleviating …