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ArticleACS nano2020

Opportunities, Barriers, and a Strategy for Overcoming Translational Challenges to Therapeutic Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology.

Kirill A Afonin, Marina A Dobrovolskaia, George Church, Mark Bathe

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Article in ACS nano, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kirill A AfoninNanoscale Science Program, Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina 28223, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6917-3183
Marina A DobrovolskaiaNanotechnology Characterization Lab, Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland 21702, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4233-9227
George ChurchDepartment of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, United States.
Mark BatheDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6199-6855

Funding

WORK ORDER 126643 B539 EXPAND IC SUITE75N91019D00024 · NIAID · LEIDOS BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH, INC. · PI BRISCOE, LYNN · 2019 to 2025
$3932.6M
Simultaneous profiling of neuronal synapse activities, proteins, and messenger RNAs at the single-cell levelR01MH112694 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Mark Bathe · 2017 to 2026
$2.8M
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
Structured DNA Nanoparticles Therapeutic mRNA and CRISPR/Cas9 DeliveryR21EB026008 · NIBIB · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BATHE, MARK · 2018 to 2021
$796k
CCR NIH HHS HHSN261200800001CNCI NIH HHS 75N91019D00024NCI NIH HHS HHSN261200800001ENIBIB NIH HHS R21 EB026008NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM120487NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH112694
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent clinical successes using therapeutic nucleic acids (TNAs) have accelerated the transition of nucleic acid nanotechnology toward therapeutic applications. Significant progress in the development, production, and characterization of nucleic acid nanomaterials and nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs), as well as abundant proof-of-concept data, are paving the way toward biomedical applications of these materials. This recent progress has catalyzed the development of new strategies for biosensing, imaging, drug delivery, and immunotherapies with previously unrecognized opportunities and identified some barriers that may impede the broader clinical translation of NANP technologies. A recent workshop sponsored by the Kavli Foundation and the Materials Research Society discussed the future directions and current challenges for the development of therapeutic nucleic acid nanotechnology. Herein, we communicate discussions on the opportunities, barriers, and strategies for realizing the clinical grand challenge of TNA nanotechnology, with a focus on ways to overcome barriers to advance NANPs to the clinic.

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NanoparticlesNanostructuresNucleic AcidsDrug Delivery SystemsNanotechnologyNucleic Acids

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PMID32706238
PMCPMC7731581

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