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ArticleNanomedicine (London, England)2020

Challenges to optimizing RNA nanostructures for large scale production and controlled therapeutic properties.

Morgan Chandler, Martin Panigaj, Lewis A Rolband, Kirill A Afonin

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Article in Nanomedicine (London, England), 2020. 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 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
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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

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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

28 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Antibody-Nanoparticle Conjugates in Therapy: Combining the Best of Two Worlds.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025
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  11. High-throughput screens identify a lipid nanoparticle that preferentially delivers mRNA to human tumors in vivo.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2023
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  18. Drug delivery systems for RNA therapeutics.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Morgan ChandlerNanoscale Science Program, Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3078-6000
Martin PanigajInstitute of Biology & Ecology, Faculty of Science, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Kosice, Slovak Republic.
Lewis A RolbandNanoscale Science Program, Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA.
Kirill A AfoninNanoscale Science Program, Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6917-3183

Funding

Characterization of various multifunctional nucleic acid nanoparticles and understanding their immunotoxicityR01GM120487 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE · PI AFONIN, KIRILL A · 2017 to 2020
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM120487
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nucleic acids have been utilized to construct an expansive collection of nanoarchitectures varying in design, physicochemical properties, cellular processing and biomedical applications. However, the broader therapeutic adaptation of nucleic acid nanoassemblies in general, and RNA-based nanoparticles in particular, have faced several challenges in moving towards (pre)clinical settings. For one, the large-batch synthesis of nucleic acids is still under development, with multi-stranded and chemically modified assemblies requiring greater production capacity while maintaining consistent medical-grade outputs. Furthermore, the unknown immunostimulation by these nanomaterials poses additional challenges, necessary to be overcome for optimizing future development of clinically approved RNA nanoparticles.

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immune stimulationnanoparticlesNANPsRNA nanoparticlesRNA nanotechnologyself-assemblyTNAs

Identifiers

PMID32452262
PMCPMC7304434

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