{"id":224779,"date":"2025-11-09T08:10:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/nanoparticles-that-enhance-mrna-delivery-could-reduce-vaccine-dosage-and-costs"},"modified":"2025-11-09T08:10:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T14:10:33","slug":"nanoparticles-that-enhance-mrna-delivery-could-reduce-vaccine-dosage-and-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/nanoparticles-that-enhance-mrna-delivery-could-reduce-vaccine-dosage-and-costs","title":{"rendered":"Nanoparticles that enhance mRNA delivery could reduce vaccine dosage and costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanoparticles-that-enhance-mrna-delivery-could-reduce-vaccine-dosage-and-costs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new delivery particle developed at MIT could make mRNA vaccines more effective and potentially lower the cost per vaccine dose.<\/p>\n<p>In studies in mice, the researchers showed that an mRNA influenza vaccine delivered with their new lipid nanoparticle could generate the same immune response as mRNA delivered by nanoparticles made with FDA-approved materials, but at around 1\/100 the dose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the challenges with mRNA vaccines is the cost,\u201d says Daniel Anderson, a professor in MIT\u2019s Department of Chemical Engineering and a member of MIT\u2019s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new delivery particle developed at MIT could make mRNA vaccines more effective and potentially lower the cost per vaccine dose. In studies in mice, the researchers showed that an mRNA influenza vaccine delivered with their new lipid nanoparticle could generate the same immune response as mRNA delivered by nanoparticles made with FDA-approved materials, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,38,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}