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ArticleNature biotechnology2025

Artificial intelligence-guided design of lipid nanoparticles for pulmonary gene therapy.

Jacob Witten, Idris Raji, Rajith S Manan, Emily Beyer, Sandra Bartlett, Yinghua Tang, Mehrnoosh Ebadi, Junying Lei, Dien Nguyen, Favour Oladimeji and 10 more

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 85 papers.

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85citing 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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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

85 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. New approach methodologies (NAMs) for preclinical and translational evaluation of mRNA-lipid nanoparticle (LNP) therapeutics.Journal of controlled release : official journal of the Controlled Release Society · 2026
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  5. Dual pKa Lipid Nanoparticles for Lung-tropic mRNA Delivery and pH-Programmed Endosomal Escape.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Jacob Witten *Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0037-5999
Idris Raji *Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5697-6422
Rajith S Manan *Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7081-0138
Emily BeyerDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Sandra BartlettDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Yinghua TangDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA.
Mehrnoosh EbadiDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5832-3425
Junying LeiDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA.
Dien NguyenDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-9229-4154
Favour OladimejiDavid H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Allen Yujie JiangDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9826-5976
Elise MacDonaldDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6132-1391
Yizong HuDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Haseeb MughalDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Ava SelfDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Evan CollinsDavid H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0774-6975
Ziying YanDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8210-5567
John F EngelhardtDepartment of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2389-9277
Robert LangerDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4255-0492
Daniel G AndersonDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. dgander@mit.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5629-4798

Funding

VIRUS PRODUCTION COREP30CA014051 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI Jacqueline A. Lees · 1985 to 2026
$93.9M
Pulmonary Toxicology Facility CoreP30ES005605 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI Jong Sung Kim · 1990 to 2026
$40.5M
Vector Core-Core 2P30DK054759 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI Alejandro Antonio Pezzulo · 1998 to 2026
$30.5M
Pathology CoreP01HL152960 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI WELSH, MICHAEL J. · 2020 to 2024
$11.6M
Combinatorial and computational design of bnAb mRNA vaccines for HIVR61AI161805 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI ANDERSON, DANIEL G · 2021 to 2023
$2.1M
Nonviral delivery techniques for in vivo prime editingR01HL162564 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI DANIEL G ANDERSON · 2022 to 2026
$1.9M
Combinatorial and computational design of bnAb mRNA vaccines for HIVR33AI161805 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI ANDERSON, DANIEL G · 2024 to 2025
$1.5M
NATIONAL FERRET RESOURCE AND RESEARCH CENTER ON LUNG DISEASE75N92019C00010 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · PI BOYLE, JESSICA · 2023 to 2023
$1.1M
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CF Foundation) WITTEN19XX0, 004831F5222NCI NIH HHS P30 CA014051NHLBI NIH HHS 75N92019C00010NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL152960NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL162564NIAID NIH HHS R33 AI161805NIAID NIH HHS R61 AI161805NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK054759NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES005605Sanofi n/aSanofi N/aU.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) HL152960, DK054759, 75N92019C00010U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) HL162564-02U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) HL162564-02, R61AI161805U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (NCI) 5P30-CA14051
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ionizable lipids are a key component of lipid nanoparticles, the leading nonviral messenger RNA delivery technology. Here, to advance the identification of ionizable lipids beyond current methods, which rely on experimental screening and/or rational design, we introduce lipid optimization using neural networks, a deep-learning strategy for ionizable lipid design. We created a dataset of >9,000 lipid nanoparticle activity measurements and used it to train a directed message-passing neural network for prediction of nucleic acid delivery with diverse lipid structures. Lipid optimization using neural networks predicted RNA delivery in vitro and in vivo and extrapolated to structures divergent from the training set. We evaluated 1.6 million lipids in silico and identified two structures, FO-32 and FO-35, with local mRNA delivery to the mouse muscle and nasal mucosa. FO-32 matched the state of the art for nebulized mRNA delivery to the mouse lung, and both FO-32 and FO-35 efficiently delivered mRNA to ferret lungs. Overall, this work shows the utility of deep learning for improving nanoparticle delivery.

Indexed as

Artificial IntelligenceGenetic TherapyLipidsLungNanoparticlesAnimalsGene Transfer TechniquesHumansLiposomesMiceNeural Networks, ComputerRNA, MessengerLipid NanoparticlesLipidsLiposomesRNA, Messenger

Identifiers

PMID39658727
PMCPMC12149338

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