Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Hit-and-run programming of therapeutic cytoreagents using mRNA nanocarriers

  • H. F. Moffett,
  • M. E. Coon,
  • S. Radtke,
  • S. B. Stephan,
  • L. McKnight,
  • A. Lambert,
  • B. L. Stoddard,
  • H. P. Kiem,
  • M. T. Stephan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00505-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Current widely used viral and electroporation methods for creating therapeutic cell-based products are complex and expensive. Here, the authors develop targeted mRNA nanocarriers that can transiently program gene expression by simply mixing them with cells, to improve their therapeutic potential.