An ionizable lipid toolbox for RNA delivery.

Han, Xuexiang; Zhang, Hanwen; Butowska, Kamila; Swingle, Kelsey L; Alameh, Mohamad-Gabriel; Weissman, Drew; Mitchell, Michael J · Nat Commun · 2021

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Abstract

Recent years have witnessed incredible growth in RNA therapeutics, which has benefited significantly from decades of research on lipid nanoparticles, specifically its key component—the ionizable lipid. This comment discusses the major ionizable lipid types, and provides perspectives for future development.

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