Nanotechnology-based mRNA vaccines

S Chen, X Huang, Y Xue, E Álvarez-Benedicto… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract mRNA vaccines have emerged as a revolutionary tool to generate rapid and
precise immune responses against infectious diseases and cancers. Compared with …

mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases: principles, delivery and clinical translation

N Chaudhary, D Weissman… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Over the past several decades, messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines have progressed from a
scepticism-inducing idea to clinical reality. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic catalysed the …

[HTML][HTML] Lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery

X Hou, T Zaks, R Langer, Y Dong - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Messenger RNA (mRNA) has emerged as a new category of therapeutic agent to prevent
and treat various diseases. To function in vivo, mRNA requires safe, effective and stable …

Lipids and lipid derivatives for RNA delivery

Y Zhang, C Sun, C Wang, KE Jankovic… - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
RNA-based therapeutics have shown great promise in treating a broad spectrum of
diseases through various mechanisms including knockdown of pathological genes …

The 60-year evolution of lipid nanoparticles for nucleic acid delivery

PR Cullis, PL Felgner - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2024 - nature.com
Delivery of genetic information to the interior of target cells in vivo has been a major
challenge facing gene therapies. This barrier is now being overcome, owing in part to …

[HTML][HTML] Lipid nanoparticles for delivery of RNA therapeutics: Current status and the role of in vivo imaging

HN Jung, SY Lee, S Lee, H Youn, HJ Im - Theranostics, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) have been one of the most successful nano-delivery vehicles
that enable efficient delivery of cytotoxic chemotherapy agents, antibiotics, and nucleic acid …

Naturally-occurring cholesterol analogues in lipid nanoparticles induce polymorphic shape and enhance intracellular delivery of mRNA

S Patel, N Ashwanikumar, E Robinson, Y Xia… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Endosomal sequestration of lipid-based nanoparticles (LNPs) remains a formidable barrier
to delivery. Herein, structure-activity analysis of cholesterol analogues reveals that …

Composition design and medical application of liposomes

M Li, C Du, N Guo, Y Teng, X Meng, H Sun, S Li… - European journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Liposomes, which possess the properties of nano-scale, biofilm similar structure, excellent
biocompatibility, become more and more useful in the drug development as the delivery …

Cytosolic delivery of nucleic acids: The case of ionizable lipid nanoparticles

M Schlich, R Palomba, G Costabile… - Bioengineering & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Ionizable lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are the most clinically advanced nano‐delivery system
for therapeutic nucleic acids. The great effort put in the development of ionizable lipids with …

Carriers break barriers in drug delivery: endocytosis and endosomal escape of gene delivery vectors

IMS Degors, C Wang, ZU Rehman… - Accounts of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Over the past decades, major efforts were undertaken to develop devices on a
nanoscale level for the efficient and nontoxic delivery of molecules to tissues and cells, for …