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,1,Nature Reviews Materials and Nature Nanotechnology hosted a free virtual webinar and Q&A session with Kathryn A. Whitehead (Carnegie Mellon University) and Yizhou Dong (Ohio State University), discussing lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery, with a focus on the new COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.
Further information:
Let’s talk about lipid nanoparticles: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-021-00281-4
Tools for translation: non-viral materials for therapeutic mRNA delivery: https://www.nature.com/articles/natrevmats201756
A materials-science perspective on tackling COVID-19: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41578-020-00247-y
Relevant research:
Nanomedicine and the COVID-19 vaccines: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-020-00820-0
The Onpattro story and the clinical translation of nanomedicines containing nucleic acid-based drugs: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-019-0591-y
COVID-19 vaccine development and a potential nanomaterial path forward:
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-020-0737-y
Immune-mediated approaches against COVID-19: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-020-0732-3
Vitamin lipid nanoparticles enable adoptive macrophage transfer for the treatment of multidrug-resistant bacterial sepsis: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-019-0600-1