Featured Editorial

  1. The Marriage of Science & Strategy: Identifying mRNA Therapeutics' Value Propositions 1/13/2025

    Though it’s not a question we can answer fully yet, in the first of this two-part article, CureVac CEO Alexander Zehnder starts us down the path of answering a critical question about our RNA therapies: In what ways can and should our mRNA products add value to our patients’ lives?

  2. Tune Therapeutics' 2025 Epigenome Editing Outlook 1/10/2025

    Chief Scientific Officer Derek Jantz talks about recent key innovations in gene therapy and RNA technology while considering what milestones we might see in 2025.

  3. RNA Therapeutics As We Enter 2025: Looking Beyond The Horizon Of First-Generation Success 1/9/2025

    As we enter 2025, RNA therapeutics are poised to command significant attention from industry leaders as well as emerging players.

  4. 2025 Forecast For Advanced Therapies 1/8/2025

    As we reflect on the lessons from 2024, it’s time to consider what 2025 may hold for the industry. Special attention is given to oligos, mRNA, cell therapies, and AAV.

  5. Top 5 mRNA/RNA Advancements of 2024 (Part 2) 12/30/2024

    As I took stock of the year behind us, there were five overarching ways in which I saw our industry taking steps forward and finding itself on sturdier scientific and clinical footing. Here, in the second of this two-part article, I continue down this list with my last three takeaways.

  6. Go From Batch To Continuous RNA Purification With mAb Equipment And QBD 12/30/2024

    University of Sheffield researchers developed a novel method purify polyadenylated mRNA continuously, which stands to improve productivity and efficiency.

  7. Top 5 mRNA/RNA Developments of 2024 (Part 1) 12/23/2024

    In the past few weeks, I’ve shared two articles outlining several RNA executives’ thoughts on advancements from 2024, as well as the challenges facing us in 2025. But why stop there? Below in the first of this two-part article, I share the first two of my five overarching observations from 2024.

  8. "The Ghost Of mRNA's Future": 2025 Outlook From RNA Leaders 12/17/2024

    As the Charles Dickens fans among us already know, there is still one pretty important “ghost” that has yet to be channeled on this “hallowed” page, and that’s the “Ghost of mRNA/RNA Innovations Yet To Come.” (Yes. That’s a thing.) Here, I share several future-facing “visions” from the conversations I had with five RNA leaders.

  9. FDA Issues New Guidance: Nonclinical Safety Assessment Of Oligonucleotide-Based Therapeutics 12/11/2024

    FDA's CDER recently issued a draft guidance: Nonclinical Safety Assessment of Oligonucleotide-Based Therapeutics. This article provides a summary and analysis. The public comment period ends January 14, 2025.

  10. "Ghosts Of mRNA Past & Present": 6 RNA/LNP Execs Revisit 2024 12/10/2024

    But much like Dicken's “A Christmas Carol” with its emphasis on how the past and present inform the future, I was struck by six RNA executive’s appreciation for where we have been and currently are as an industry, and how these moments in time are already informing mRNA/RNA’s bright future.