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ReviewNature reviews. Drug discovery2026

Towards mRNA therapeutics 2.0.

Kenneth R Chien, Kylie S Foo, Nevin Witman

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Review in Nature reviews. Drug discovery, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Kenneth R ChienDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden. Kenneth.chien@ki.se.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2759-8378
Kylie S FooDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4040-5761
Nevin WitmanDepartment of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1109-778X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

mRNA technology, which has enabled the rapid development of vaccines for infectious diseases, also holds great promise for a new generation of therapies for a host of rare and common diseases. A decade of clinical trials are beginning to clarify the key barriers to unlock the transformative potential of mRNA drugs, which are being addressed with novel interdisciplinary technical advances that, in some cases, are integrating the fields of gene, cell and mRNA therapies. Here, we review the scientific insights from a select group of clinical studies on mRNA-based drugs, including enzyme replacement therapies for rare diseases, cancer immunotherapies, genome-modifying therapies, and immune cell reprogramming therapies for cancer and autoimmune diseases. Several innovative approaches such as clinically tractable in vivo delivery systems, the development of completely 'immune-silent' mRNA-vehicle formulations that allow repeated administration and the development of approaches for preferential delivery to organs other than the liver would expedite the development of mRNA therapeutics 2.0.

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