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ReviewNature reviews. Drug discovery2009

Knocking down barriers: advances in siRNA delivery.

Kathryn A Whitehead, Robert Langer, Daniel G Anderson

Erratum issuedOpen access · bronzeAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Nature reviews. Drug discovery, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 1,181 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1,181citing papers in PubMed
85.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1,181 citing papers in PubMed, 3,091 citations in OpenAlex.

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1,121 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

  • Erratum issued
5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kathryn A WhiteheadDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.
Robert Langer
Daniel G Anderson
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the 10 years that have passed since the Nobel prize-winning discovery of RNA interference (RNAi), billions of dollars have been invested in the therapeutic application of gene silencing in humans. Today, there are promising data from ongoing clinical trials for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration and respiratory syncytial virus. Despite these early successes, however, the widespread use of RNAi therapeutics for disease prevention and treatment requires the development of clinically suitable, safe and effective drug delivery vehicles. Here, we provide an update on the progress of RNAi therapeutics and highlight novel synthetic materials for the encapsulation and intracellular delivery of nucleic acids.

Indexed as

AnimalsClinical Trials as TopicDrug Delivery SystemsHumansLiposomesNanoparticlesRNA InterferenceRNA, Small InterferingLiposomesRNA, Small Interfering

Identifiers

PMID19180106
PMCPMC7097568
OpenAlexW1964146045

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.