RNA-based therapeutics: an overview and prospectus

Y Zhu, L Zhu, X Wang, H ** - Cell death & disease, 2022 - nature.com
The growing understanding of RNA functions and their crucial roles in diseases promotes
the application of various RNAs to selectively function on hitherto “undruggable” proteins …

A dynamic DNA tetrahedron framework for active targeting

T Tian, T Zhang, S Shi, Y Gao, X Cai, Y Lin - Nature Protocols, 2023 - nature.com
An active targeting strategy-enabled DNA tetrahedron delivery vehicle could facilitate stable
drug encapsulation and stimuli-responsive on-demand release, building a universal …

RNAi-based drug design: considerations and future directions

Q Tang, A Khvorova - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2024 - nature.com
More than 25 years after its discovery, the post-transcriptional gene regulation mechanism
termed RNAi is now transforming pharmaceutical development, proved by the recent FDA …

Multifunctional biomolecule nanostructures for cancer therapy

J Wang, Y Li, G Nie - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Biomolecule-based nanostructures are inherently multifunctional and harbour diverse
biological activities, which can be explored for cancer nanomedicine. The supramolecular …

Functionalizing framework nucleic‐acid‐based nanostructures for biomedical application

T Zhang, T Tian, Y Lin - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Strategies for functionalizing diverse tetrahedral framework nucleic acids (tFNAs) have been
extensively explored since the first successful fabrication of tFNA by Turberfield. One‐pot …

DNA origami

S Dey, C Fan, KV Gothelf, J Li, C Lin, L Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Biological materials are self-assembled with near-atomic precision in living cells, whereas
synthetic 3D structures generally lack such precision and controllability. Recently, DNA …

Advances in oligonucleotide drug delivery

TC Roberts, R Langer, MJA Wood - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2020 - nature.com
Oligonucleotides can be used to modulate gene expression via a range of processes
including RNAi, target degradation by RNase H-mediated cleavage, splicing modulation …

The biological applications of DNA nanomaterials: current challenges and future directions

W Ma, Y Zhan, Y Zhang, C Mao, X **e… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
DNA, a genetic material, has been employed in different scientific directions for various
biological applications as driven by DNA nanotechnology in the past decades, including …

A tetrahedral framework DNA‐based bioswitchable miRNA inhibitor delivery system: application to skin anti‐aging

S Li, Y Liu, T Zhang, S Lin, S Shi, J He, Y **e… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
MicroRNA (miR)‐based therapy shows strong potential; however, structural limitations pose
a challenge in fully exploiting its biomedical functionality. Tetrahedral framework DNA (tFNA) …

A bioswitchable delivery system for microRNA therapeutics based on a tetrahedral DNA nanostructure

S Li, T Tian, T Zhang, Y Lin, X Cai - Nature Protocols, 2024 - nature.com
As microRNAs (miRNA) regulate almost all physiopathological activities in the human body,
miRNA therapeutics that deliver miRNA regulators have attracted considerable attention in …