[HTML][HTML] Engineering nanoparticle toolkits for mRNA delivery

B Sun, W Wu, EA Narasipura, Y Ma, C Yu… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
The concept of using mRNA to produce its own medicine in situ in the body makes it an ideal
drug candidate, holding great potential to revolutionize the way we approach medicine. The …

Screening for lipid nanoparticles that modulate the immune activity of helper T cells towards enhanced antitumour activity

Y Zhu, J Ma, R Shen, J Lin, S Li, X Lu… - Nature biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) can be designed to potentiate cancer immunotherapy by
promoting their uptake by antigen-presenting cells, stimulating the maturation of these cells …

Multi-step screening of DNA/lipid nanoparticles and co-delivery with siRNA to enhance and prolong gene expression

Y Zhu, R Shen, I Vuong, RA Reynolds… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Lipid nanoparticles hold great potential as an effective non-viral vector for nucleic acid-
based gene therapy. Plasmid DNA delivery can result in extended transgene expression …

[HTML][HTML] Gene therapy: challenges in cell culture scale-up

J Shupe, A Zhang, DC Odenwelder… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Gene therapy is designed to cure various diseases resulting from genetic defects. Currently,
recombinant adeno-associated viral vectors (rAAV) are the vehicles of choice for therapeutic …

Metal‐cyclic dinucleotide nanomodulator‐stimulated STING signaling for strengthened radioimmunotherapy of large tumor

D Wang, T Nie, C Huang, Z Chen, X Ma, W Fang… - Small, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Combined treatment of immunotherapy and radiotherapy shows promising therapeutic
effects for the regression of a variety of cancers. However, even multi‐modality therapies …

Supramolecular assembly of polycation/mRNA nanoparticles and in vivo monocyte programming

Y Hu, SY Tzeng, L Cheng, J Lin… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Size-dependent phagocytosis is a well-characterized phenomenon in monocytes and
macrophages. However, this size effect for preferential gene delivery to these important cell …

Design space determination to optimize DNA complexation and full capsid formation in transient rAAV manufacturing

Q Fu, YS Lee, EA Green, Y Wang… - Biotechnology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recombinant adeno‐associated virus (rAAV) vectors are a promising platform for in vivo
gene therapies. However, cost‐effective, well‐characterized processes necessary to …

High‐yield recombinant adeno‐associated viral vector production by multivariate optimization of bioprocess and transfection conditions

L Coplan, Z Zhang, N Ragone, J Reeves… - Biotechnology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recombinant adeno‐associated viral vectors (rAAVs) are one of the most used vehicles for
gene therapy, with five rAAV therapeutics commercially approved by the FDA. To improve …

Tuning extracellular fluid viscosity to enhance transfection efficiency

J Ma, Y Zhu, J Kong, D Yu, WH Toh, M Jain… - Nature Chemical …, 2024 - nature.com
Gene therapies and cellular programming rely on effective cell transfection. Despite
continuous advancements in carrier development and transfection techniques to enhance …

Exploring nutrient supplementation and bioprocess optimization to improve the production of lentiviral vectors in serum‐free medium suspension cultures

TA Vaz, AF Rodrigues, AS Coroadinha - Biotechnology Journal, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The use of lentiviral vectors (LV) in gene therapy has been growing in recent years. To meet
the increasing clinical demand, LV production platforms will benefit from improved …