The technology behind the new COVID-19 mRNA vaccines

Nature Reviews Materials and Nature Nanotechnology hosted a free virtual webinar and Q&A session with Kathryn A. Whitehead (Carnegie Mellon University) and Yizhou Dong (Ohio State University), discussing lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery, with a focus on the new COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. Further information: Let’s talk about lipid nanoparticles: Tools for translation: non-viral materials for therapeutic mRNA delivery: A materials-science perspective on tackling COVID-19: Relevant research: Nanomedicine and the COVID-19 vaccines: The Onpattro story and the clinical translation of nanomedicines containing nucleic acid-based drugs: COVID-19 vaccine development and a potential nanomaterial path forward: Immune-mediated approaches aga