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Title
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Artificial immune cell, AI-cell, a new tool to predict interferon production by peripheral blood monocytes in response to nucleic acid nanoparticles
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Author
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Afonin, Kirill A., Chandler, Morgan, Halman, Justin
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Nucleic acids, Chemistry
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Description
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Nucleic acid nanoparticles, or NANPs, rationally designed to communicate with the human immune system, can offer innovative therapeutic strategies to overcome the limitations of traditional nucleic acid therapies. Each set of NANPs is unique in th...
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Title
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Characterization of cationic bolaamphiphile vesicles for sirna delivery into tumors and brain
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Author
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Afonin, Kirill A., Kim, Taejin, Gupta, Kshitij
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Nucleic acids, Chemistry
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Description
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Small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are potential therapeutic substances due to their gene silencing capability as exemplified by the recent approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the first siRNA therapeutic agent (patisiran). Howeve...
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Title
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Exosome mediated delivery of functional nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs)
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Author
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Afonin, Kirill A., Ke, Weina
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Nucleic acids, Chemistry
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Description
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RNAi-based technologies have shown biomedical potential; however, safe and efficient delivery of RNA remains a barrier for their broader clinical applications. Nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) programmed to self-assemble and organize multiple th...
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Title
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Functionally-interdependent shape-switching nanoparticles with controllable properties
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Author
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Afonin, Kirill A., Halman, Justin, Chandler, Morgan
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Nucleic acids, Chemistry
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Description
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We introduce a new concept that utilizes cognate nucleic acid nanoparticles which are fully complementary and functionally-interdependent to each other. In the described approach, the physical interaction between sets of designed nanoparticles ini...
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Influence of silver ion release on the inactivation of antibiotic resistant bacteria using light-activated silver nanoparticles
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Author
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Vivero-Escoto, Juan, Munir, Mariya, Siano, Paolo, Godakhindi, Varsha
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Antibiotics, Biomolecules
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Description
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The widespread increase in antibiotic resistance (AR), in an extensive range of microorganisms, demands the development of alternative antimicrobials with novel non-specific low-mutation bacterial targets. Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) and photosen...
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Title
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The immunorecognition, subcellular compartmentalization, and physicochemical properties of nucleic acid nanoparticles can be controlled by composition modification
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Author
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Johnson, M. Brittany, Halman, Justin, Marriott, Ian, Afonin, Kirill A., Miller, Daniel K., Cooper, Joseph S., Khisamutdinov, Emil F.
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Subjects--Topical
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Immunology, Nucleic acids, Nanoparticles
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Description
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Nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs) have become powerful new platforms as therapeutic and diagnostic tools due to the innate biological ability of nucleic acids to identify target molecules or silence genes involved in disease pathways. However, th...