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A Reverse Transcription Nucleic-Acid-Based Barcoding System for <i>In Vivo</i> Measurement of Lipid Nanoparticle mRNA Delivery

2025· article· en· W4407163134 on OpenAlexafffund
Ke Wang, Tiana L. Young, Jingan Chen, Shannon J. Tsai, Yue Xu, Andrew Varley, Nicholas C. Solek, Fanglin Gong, Rick Xing Ze Lu, Basil P. Hubbard, Bowen Li

Bibliographic record

VenueACS Bio & Med Chem Au · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicRNA Interference and Gene Delivery
Canadian institutionsPrincess Margaret Cancer CentreUniversity Health NetworkUniversity of Toronto
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchUniversity Health NetworkUniversity of TorontoConnaught FundCanada Foundation for InnovationJ.P. Bickell FoundationCanada Research Chairs
KeywordsNucleic acidIn vivoMessenger RNAReverse transcriptaseComputational biologyTranscription (linguistics)NanoparticlemicroRNAChemistryCell biologyBiologyRNABiochemistryNanotechnologyGeneBiotechnologyMaterials science

Abstract

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Lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are the most extensively validated clinical delivery vehicles for mRNA therapeutics, exemplified by their widespread use in the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. The pace of lipid nanoparticle (LNP) development for mRNA therapeutics is restricted by the limitations of existing methods for large-scale LNP screening. To address this challenge, we developed Quantitative Analysis of Reverse Transcribed Barcodes (QuART), a novel nucleic-acid-based system for measuring LNP functional delivery in vivo. QuART uses a bacterial retron reverse transcription system to couple functional mRNA delivery into the cytoplasm with a cDNA barcode readout. Our results demonstrate that QuART can be used to identify functional mRNA delivery both in vitro in cell culture and in vivo in mice. Multiplexing of QuART could enable high-throughput screening of LNP formulations, facilitating the rapid discovery of promising LNP candidates for mRNA therapeutics.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.626

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.236
Teacher spread0.217 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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