Advances in biomaterials for drug delivery

OS Fenton, KN Olafson, PS Pillai… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in biomaterials for drug delivery are enabling significant progress in biology and
medicine. Multidisciplinary collaborations between physical scientists, engineers, biologists …

Intracellular delivery by membrane disruption: mechanisms, strategies, and concepts

MP Stewart, R Langer, KF Jensen - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Intracellular delivery is a key step in biological research and has enabled decades of
biomedical discoveries. It is also becoming increasingly important in industrial and medical …

Towards translational optogenetics

A Bansal, S Shikha, Y Zhang - Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2023 - nature.com
Optogenetics is widely used to interrogate the neural circuits underlying disease and has
most recently been harnessed for therapeutic applications. The optogenetic toolkit consists …

Non-viral vectors for gene-based therapy

H Yin, RL Kanasty, AA Eltoukhy, AJ Vegas… - Nature reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Gene-based therapy is the intentional modulation of gene expression in specific cells to treat
pathological conditions. This modulation is accomplished by introducing exogenous nucleic …

Nucleic acid therapeutics using polyplexes: a journey of 50 years (and beyond)

U Lächelt, E Wagner - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Since the elucidation of the molecular structure of nucleic acids and understanding of their
role in encoding and translating genetic information into biological function, 1 the knowledge …

Materials for non-viral intracellular delivery of messenger RNA therapeutics

KJ Kauffman, MJ Webber, DG Anderson - Journal of Controlled Release, 2016 - Elsevier
Though therapeutics based on messenger RNA (mRNA) have broad potential in
applications such as protein replacement therapy, cancer immunotherapy, and genomic …

[HTML][HTML] Engineered biomembrane-derived nanoparticles for nanoscale theranostics

Z Wu, H Zhang, J Yan, Y Wei, J Su - Theranostics, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Currently, biological membrane-derived nanoparticles (NPs) have shown enormous
potential as drug delivery vehicles due to their outstanding biomimetic properties. To make …

[HTML][HTML] Engineered tumor cell-derived vaccines against cancer: The art of combating poison with poison

X Zhang, H Cui, W Zhang, Z Li, J Gao - Bioactive Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Tumor vaccination is a promising approach for tumor immunotherapy because it presents
high specificity and few side effects. However, tumor vaccines that contain only a single …

Gene therapy and DNA delivery systems

D Ibraheem, A Elaissari, H Fessi - International journal of pharmaceutics, 2014 - Elsevier
Gene therapy is a promising new technique for treating many serious incurable diseases,
such as cancer and genetic disorders. The main problem limiting the application of this …

Appraisal for the potential of viral and nonviral vectors in gene therapy: A review

MH Butt, M Zaman, A Ahmad, R Khan, TH Mallhi… - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Over the past few decades, gene therapy has gained immense importance in medical
research as a promising treatment strategy for diseases such as cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer's …