Applications of mRNA as Therapeutics

Creativebiolabs24 Oct, 2023Technology

Gene therapy is an experimental technique using nucleic acids as a therapeutic drug to treat disease, which has held great potential to be a preferred treatment option for many diseases. According to the types of therapeutic nucleic acids, gene therapy is generally divided into DNA-based gene therapy and RNA-based gene therapy. Unlike DNA-based gene therapy that introduces a specific DNA fragment into the genome, RNA-based gene therapy delivers a therapeutic RNA into the cytoplasm of target cells, among which messenger RNA (mRNA)-based therapy has emerged as an attractive method in a wide range of therapeutic applications.