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by aaavl2821 3106 days ago
I dont understand the biology behind biontechs spleen targeting secret sauce (i dont think they did either, but it got them a patent on an otherwise standard lipid formulation). there is a really good nature paper from summer 2016 that outlines a lot of their preclinical dev; the CEO said he sort of regrets publishing that as a lot of competitors sprang up afterwards

out of curiousity, what's the exosome hype? ive heard a few strong life sci VCs mention it, but i talked to a ceo of an exosome company and didnt quite understand the specific therapeutic potential

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They are a phenomenally cool drug delivery vehicle as you can get differential uptake based on their surface markers. Check this out: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221138351...

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