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    Lipid-coated mesoporous silica nanoparticles for anti-viral applications via delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoproteins

    Emerging and re-emerging viral pathogens present a unique challenge for anti-viral therapeutic development. Anti-viral approaches with high flexibility and rapid production times are essential for combating th...

    Annette E. LaBauve, Edwin A. Saada, Iris K. A. Jones, Richard Mosesso in Scientific Reports (2023)

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    CTB-targeted protocells enhance ability of lanthionine ketenamine analogs to induce autophagy in motor neuron-like cells

    Impaired autophagy, a cellular digestion process that eliminates proteins and damaged organelles, has been implicated in neurodegenerative diseases, including motor neuron disorders. Motor neuron targeted upre...

    Maria A. Gonzalez Porras, Heather M. Gransee, Travis T. Denton in Scientific Reports (2023)

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    Cancer vaccines from cryogenically silicified tumour cells functionalized with pathogen-associated molecular patterns

    The production of personalized cancer vaccines made from autologous tumour cells could benefit from mechanisms that enhance immunogenicity. Here we show that cancer vaccines can be made via the cryogenic silic...

    Jimin Guo, Henning De May, Stefan Franco in Nature Biomedical Engineering (2022)

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    Engineering of large-pore lipid-coated mesoporous silica nanoparticles for dual cargo delivery to cancer cells

    Lipid-coated mesoporous silica nanoparticles (LC-MSNs) have recently emerged as a next-generation cargo delivery nanosystem combining the unique attributes of both the organic and inorganic components. The hig...

    Achraf Noureddine, Elizabeth A. Hjelvik in Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology (2019)

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    Establishing the effects of mesoporous silica nanoparticle properties on in vivo disposition using imaging-based pharmacokinetics

    The progress of nanoparticle (NP)-based drug delivery has been hindered by an inability to establish structure-activity relationships in vivo. Here, using stable, monosized, radiolabeled, mesoporous silica nan...

    Prashant Dogra, Natalie L. Adolphi, Zhihui Wang, Yu-Shen Lin in Nature Communications (2018)

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    Lipid-Coated Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for the Delivery of the ML336 Antiviral to Inhibit Encephalitic Alphavirus Infection

    Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEEV) poses a major public health risk due to its amenability for use as a bioterrorism agent and its severe health consequences in humans. ML336 is a recently developed c...

    Annette E. LaBauve, Torri E. Rinker, Achraf Noureddine, Rita E. Serda in Scientific Reports (2018)

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    Click approaches in sol–gel chemistry

    The combination of the copper-catalyzed alkyne-azide cycloaddition (CuAAC) reaction with sol–gel processing enables the versatile preparation of sol–gel materials under different shapes with targeted functiona...

    Xavier Cattoën, Achraf Noureddine in Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology (2014)