How to pronounce“lnps”in English

Early LNPs had some issues with efficacy, but researchers eventually perfected the technology, just a few years before it turned out to be needed

Lipid nanoparticles, or LNPs, are tiny balls of layered lipids, or fats, with an mRNA payload tucked safely inside.

And in 2018, the FDA approved the first RNA drug that also used LNPs.

Building on successful studies in delivering other types of RNA into cells, in the early 2010s, researchers started experimenting with LNPs as ways to make mRNA vaccines easily injectible.