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Delivery technologies such as lipid nanoparticles (LNP) offer significant advantages over the delivery of free RNA for various RNA therapeutic, vaccine, and basic science applications.
UC Berkeley researchers developed a new class of lipid nanoparticle (LNP) which is effective in delivering various types of nuclei acids in different tissues. The LNP was successfully tested in in-vivo mouse models and therefore poses a significant promise in the gene editing field. The lipid formulation was packaged together with CRISPR Cas9 and a gRNA targeting the endogenous Tau locus. Tau dysrregulation is a pathological feature of Alzheimers disease, thus the invention provides a means to intervene in the development of pathological states associated with Tau aggregate formation.