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 …

Advances in COVID-19 mRNA vaccine development

E Fang, X Liu, M Li, Z Zhang, L Song, B Zhu… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
To date, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has determined 399,600,607 cases and 5,757,562 …

[HTML][HTML] mRNA vaccines—a new era in vaccinology

N Pardi, MJ Hogan, FW Porter… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract mRNA vaccines represent a promising alternative to conventional vaccine
approaches because of their high potency, capacity for rapid development and potential for …

Cancer nanomedicine: progress, challenges and opportunities

J Shi, PW Kantoff, R Wooster, OC Farokhzad - Nature reviews cancer, 2017 - nature.com
The intrinsic limits of conventional cancer therapies prompted the development and
application of various nanotechnologies for more effective and safer cancer treatment …

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 …

Therapeutic siRNA: state of the art

B Hu, L Zhong, Y Weng, L Peng, Y Huang… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
ABSTRACT RNA interference (RNAi) is an ancient biological mechanism used to defend
against external invasion. It theoretically can silence any disease-related genes in a …

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 …

Nanotechnology for multimodal synergistic cancer therapy

W Fan, B Yung, P Huang, X Chen - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The complexity, diversity, and heterogeneity of tumors seriously undermine the therapeutic
potential of treatment. Therefore, the current trend in clinical research has gradually shifted …

Structural parameters of nanoparticles affecting their toxicity for biomedical applications: a review

R Abbasi, G Shineh, M Mobaraki, S Doughty… - Journal of Nanoparticle …, 2023 - Springer
Rapidly growing interest in using nanoparticles (NPs) for biomedical applications has
increased concerns about their safety and toxicity. In comparison with bulk materials, NPs …

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 …