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Record W4416527947 · doi:10.1016/j.mtbio.2025.102584

mRNA delivery systems 2.0: Engineering extrahepatic delivery for non-vaccine therapeutics

2025· article· en· W4416527947 on OpenAlex

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A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueMaterials Today Bio · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicRNA Interference and Gene Delivery
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
FundersMinistry of Science and ICT, South KoreaNational Research Foundation of Korea
KeywordsPreclinical testingDrug deliveryDelivery systemBiocompatible materialGene deliveryClinical PracticeTargeted drug delivery

Abstract

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Recent breakthroughs in mRNA therapeutics have transformed vaccine development, largely powered by lipid nanoparticle (LNP) based delivery systems. However, these systems exhibit a strong hepatic tropism, making them suboptimal for targeting extrahepatic organs such as the brain, lungs, pancreas, heart, and tumor tissues critical to non-vaccine therapeutic applications. This review explores next-generation delivery strategies designed to overcome liver centric distribution. We highlight emerging platforms, including pKa-tuned LNPs, polymeric and peptide-based carriers, exosomes, and biomimetic vesicles, along with physical enhancement techniques such as ultrasound, laser, and MRI-guided systems. Nonetheless, researchers are achieving more precise delivery to deep seated tissues by integrating these technologies with targeted ligands and responsive release mechanisms. Applications in oncology, cardiology, pulmonology, and neurology are discussed with a focus on preclinical and early clinical outcomes. Regulatory considerations, including immunogenicity, biodistribution, and manufacturing scalability, are also reviewed. Ultimately, this article presents a forward-looking perspective on engineering safe, organ specific mRNA delivery platforms beyond the liver, enabling the advancement of precision therapeutics. This review will provide a timely and comprehensive overview of innovative strategies to overcome these challenges, focusing on non-vaccine applications.

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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 score0.027
Threshold uncertainty score0.909

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 head0.010
GPT teacher head0.237
Teacher spread0.228 · 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