Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Efficient RNA drug delivery using red blood cell extracellular vesicles

  • Waqas Muhammad Usman,
  • Tin Chanh Pham,
  • Yuk Yan Kwok,
  • Luyen Tien Vu,
  • Victor Ma,
  • Boya Peng,
  • Yuen San Chan,
  • Likun Wei,
  • Siew Mei Chin,
  • Ajijur Azad,
  • Alex Bai-Liang He,
  • Anskar Y. H. Leung,
  • Mengsu Yang,
  • Ng Shyh-Chang,
  • William C. Cho,
  • Jiahai Shi,
  • Minh T. N. Le

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04791-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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RNA delivery for disease treatment often has low uptake efficiencies and cytotoxicity. Here the authors produce extracellular vesicles from red blood cells for in vivo cargo delivery.