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1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (833+ words) Lipid nanoparticles have become one of the most celebrated delivery vehicles in modern medicine, propelling messenger RNA vaccines to the forefront of the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic and opening a credible path toward RNA therapeutics for cancer, genetic…...

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2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (505+ words) Brown University Breakthrough T1D awards grant to Brown Engineering’s Desai to support biomimetic scaffold design A grant from Breakthrough T1D, the leading global type 1 diabetes (T1D) research and advocacy organization, to Brown University's School of Engineering advances a technology developed in Dean Tejal…...

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