Nanomaterials as Gene and Nucleic Acid Delivery Platforms
- 1st Edition - December 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Rocktotpal Konwarh, William C.S. Cho
- Language: English
Nanomaterials as Gene and Nucleic Acid Delivery Platforms explores the intersection between gene therapy and nanotechnology, assessing the benefits of nanoscale platforms for sa… Read more
Description
Description
This book will be of great use to researchers and academics in the fields of nanomaterials, biomaterials, gene therapy, molecular biology, immunology, and disease therapeutics. This book may also be of interest to clinicians researching novel materials and approaches for therapeutics.
Key features
Key features
- Covers the unique and beneficial properties of a wide range of nanomaterials for gene and nucleic acid delivery, including polymers, proteins and peptides, lipids, metals, and carbon-based nanomaterials
- Reviews applications of nanomaterial-based gene delivery platforms in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, drug delivery, cancer treatment, and more
- Details assay approaches and transfection factors for in vitro and in vivo use, as well as clinical translation considerations
Readership
Readership
Table of contents
Table of contents
1. Nanomaterials: Basics to biocargo-delivery applications
2. Gene therapy: Principles, prospects, and challenges in viral and non-viral gene delivery stratagems
3. Harnessing nanomaterials in gene delivery, gene therapy and genome engineering- Retrospect and prospects
Part 2: Spectrum of Nanomaterials for Gene Delivery
4. Design, diversity and applications of polymeric nanomaterials in gene delivery
5. Dendrimers and nanostructured hyperbranched polymers in gene delivery
6. Proteins and peptide nanomaterials for gene delivery
7. Polysaccharide based nanomaterials for gene delivery
8. Lipid based nanomaterials in gene delivery
9. Harnessing exosomes for gene delivery
10. Metal based nanomaterials in nucleic acid delivery and therapy
11. Carbon and silica-based nanomaterials for gene delivery
12. Quantum dots as multifunctional gene delivery agents
13. Trigger/stimulus-responsive nanomaterials for gene delivery
14. Viruses: Prospects for nanomedicine and gene delivery
Part 3: Approaches and Considerations in Nanomaterials Mediated Gene Delivery
15. Factors affecting in vitro and ex vivo transfection and in vivo gene delivery using nanomaterials
16. Nanomaterials and gene expression profile modulation
17. Assay approaches for in vitro and in vivo gene expression profiling
18. Nanotechnology, omics science and gene therapy
19. Nanomaterials and facets of epigenetics
Part 4: Key Applications and Clinical Translation
20. Plant genome engineering: Prospects of nanomaterials-based gene delivery
21. Gene delivery using electrospun nanobiomaterials: Implications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
22. Nanomaterials for siRNA delivery and the gamut of applications
23. Nanomaterials as CRISPR/Cas delivery platforms for genome editing
24. Harnessing nanomaterials in gene therapy for cancer
25. Nanomaterials for neural-specific gene therapy
26. Nanotechnology in gene delivery for ophthalmic applications
27. Ethics, clinical translation and safety regulations of nanomaterials in gene therapy
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: December 1, 2026
- Language: English
About the editors
About the editors
RK
Rocktotpal Konwarh
Dr Rocktotpal Konwarh is a Scientist at Baba Kinaram Research Foundation, Mau, India. He completed his PhD in Chemical Sciences from Tezpur University, India, before joining as a DBT Research Associate in Bioinformatics. He was an Institutional Post-Doctoral Fellow in Biomaterial Engineering and Nanomedicine at IIT Guwahati, India. Dr Konwarh has previously been an Assistant Professor at Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Ethiopia, and a guest faculty member at Dibrugarh University, India, Jimma University, Ethiopia, and Mekelle University, Ethiopia. His research interests include nanomaterials and biopolymeric nanocomposites for biomedical and allied applications, tissue engineering, and targeted therapeutics delivery. He has obtained several research fellowships over the years, including the Canadian Commonwealth visiting research fellowship, University of Guelph, Canada, and the DST-UKIERI project co-investigatorship and post-doctoral visiting research fellowship to University College London, England. Dr Konwarh is an editorial board and review board member of international peer-reviewed journals and author of many highly cited journal articles, as well as a couple of book chapters.
WC
William C.S. Cho
Dr. William C. Cho, Highly Cited Researchers in 2023 by Clarivate. Dr. Cho has published over 600 SCI peer-reviewed papers; he is the world's top 0.1% most influential scientists in the world.