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 …

Chemically modified platforms for better RNA therapeutics

Y Shi, X Zhen, Y Zhang, Y Li, S Koo, Q Saiding… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
RNA-based therapies have catalyzed a revolutionary transformation in the biomedical
landscape, offering unprecedented potential in disease prevention and treatment. However …

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 current state and future directions of RNAi-based therapeutics

RL Setten, JJ Rossi, S Han - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2019 - nature.com
The RNA interference (RNAi) pathway regulates mRNA stability and translation in nearly all
human cells. Small double-stranded RNA molecules can efficiently trigger RNAi silencing of …

The development and improvement of immunodeficient mice and humanized immune system mouse models

J Chen, S Liao, Z **ao, Q Pan, X Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Animal models play an indispensable role in the study of human diseases. However, animal
models of different diseases do not fully mimic the complex internal environment of humans …

RNA-based therapeutics: from antisense oligonucleotides to miRNAs

S Bajan, G Hutvagner - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The first therapeutic nucleic acid, a DNA oligonucleotide, was approved for clinical use in
1998. Twenty years later, in 2018, the first therapeutic RNA-based oligonucleotide was …

The delivery of therapeutic oligonucleotides

RL Juliano - Nucleic acids research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The oligonucleotide therapeutics field has seen remarkable progress over the last few years
with the approval of the first antisense drug and with promising developments in late stage …

Knocking down disease: a progress report on siRNA therapeutics

A Wittrup, J Lieberman - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), which downregulate gene expression guided by sequence
complementarity, can be used therapeutically to block the synthesis of disease-causing …

Therapeutic targeting of microRNAs: current status and future challenges

Z Li, TM Rana - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2014 - nature.com
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are evolutionarily conserved small non-coding RNAs that have crucial
roles in regulating gene expression. Increasing evidence supports a role for miRNAs in …

Core–shell nanostructures: perspectives towards drug delivery applications

R Kumar, K Mondal, PK Panda, A Kaushik… - Journal of materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanosystems have shown encouraging outcomes and substantial progress in the areas of
drug delivery and biomedical applications. However, the controlled and targeted delivery of …