Analysis of Technological Evolution in the Field of mRNA Therapy Based on Large Language Models
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Jin Chengcheng Master’s Candidate |
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Lu Liuyang Master’s Candidate |
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Wang Chuqiu Master’s Candidate |
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Liu Xiaochen Master’s Candidate |
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You Xuejie Master’s Candidate |
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Zhang Tong Master’s Candidate. |
Received date: 2026-01-09
Online published: 2026-06-29
[Purpose/Significance] As a major developmental direction of next-generation nucleic acid therapeutics, mRNA-based therapies are characterized by a high degree of technological convergence and rapid iterative advancement. A systematic analysis of the technological development trajectory in the field of mRNA therapeutics, including the identification of key technological themes and the elucidation of their dynamic evolutionary patterns, is of significant theoretical value and practical relevance for understanding the innovation frontier and overall development trends of this field. [Method/Process] Using patent data from the field of mRNA therapeutics as the object of study, this research constructed a technical text-mining framework that integrated deep learning algorithms with large language models to enable the automated extraction of key technological entities in the mRNA therapeutics domain. On this basis, the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling method was employed to identify topics and analyze their intensities across patent data from different time periods, thereby revealing the stage-wise evolutionary characteristics and developmental trajectories of the major technological themes. [Result/Conclusion] Technological development in the field of mRNA therapeutics exhibits a clear stage-wise progression characterized by “basic research-application expansion-clinical translation.” From the perspective of technological themes, cancer immunotherapy, RNA modification, drug delivery systems, vaccine development, and gene editing successively emerge as focal research areas at different stages. Specifically, the early stage of research primarily focuses on enhancing mRNA stability and optimizing chemical modification strategies; the intermediate stage gradually expands toward the design of delivery carriers and improvements in delivery efficiency; in recent years, vaccine development and broad-spectrum applications targeting multiple indications have become the dominant directions.
Jin Chengcheng , Lu Liuyang , Wang Chuqiu , Liu Xiaochen , You Xuejie , Zhang Tong , Zhang Liwen . Analysis of Technological Evolution in the Field of mRNA Therapy Based on Large Language Models[J]. Knowledge Management Forum, 2026 , 11(3) : 269 -280 . DOI: 10.13266/j.issn.2095-5472.2026.023
表1 各阶段专利数量Table 1 Number of patents at each stage |
| 专利公开年份 | 2001—2010 | 2011—2020 | 2021—2022 | 2023—2024 |
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| 专利数量/件 | 6 908 | 5 612 | 2 424 | 3 637 |
表2 技术实体抽取结果Table 2 Technical entity recognition results |
| 技术实体排序 | 技术实体 | 频次 |
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| 排序前10位的技术实体 | cancer antibody nucleic acid nucleic acid molecule host cell pharmaceutical composition polypeptide vector mrna polynucleotides | 1 507 898 768 718 676 655 621 564 461 356 |
| 排序后10位的技术实体 | dermatitis disease dipeptide braf gene slow-cycling cells cxcl2 romo1 gene mutated epitope sqle nanotube array tmem9 | 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 |
表3 各发展阶段主题识别结果Table 3 Topic identification results at each development stage |
| 发展阶段 | 主题识别结果 | |
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| 2001—2010年 | Topic 0:核酸与蛋白质编码 Topic 1:化学与分子特征 Topic 2:生物标志物 Topic 3:基因表达 Topic 4:癌症与基因标记物 Topic 5:RNA与基因表达调控 Topic 6:细胞培养与基因工程 Topic 7:RNA表达与抗RNA疗法 | Topic 8:核酸与基因治疗 Topic 9:多肽生产与重组技术 Topic 10:骨骼、胶原蛋白相关的分子生物学技术 Topic 11:化学与药物研究 Topic 12:神经系统与精神健康 Topic 13:病毒研究与疫苗开发 Topic 14:癌症基因表达与治疗 Topic 15:肿瘤细胞与生物化学 |
| 2011—2020年 | Topic 0:核酸与蛋白质编码 Topic 1:化学与分子特征 Topic 2:病毒与基因编辑 Topic 3:细胞与免疫系统 Topic 4:癌症诊断与治疗 Topic 5:RNA技术与疫苗 Topic 6:RNA干扰技术 Topic 7:基因编辑与转录 | Topic 8:细胞治疗与生产 Topic 9:化合物与分子载体 Topic 10:免疫疗法与抗体 Topic 11:药物递送系统 Topic 12:癌症治疗与免疫治疗 Topic 13:治疗组合与mRNA治疗 Topic 14:癌症诊断与治疗 Topic 15:干细胞与再生医学 |
| 2021—2022年 | Topic 0:mRNA组成与疫苗开发 Topic 1:肿瘤微环境与免疫调节 Topic 2:传染病与新冠疫苗 Topic 3:脂质纳米颗粒药物传递系统 Topic 4:癌症研究与治疗 Topic 5:RNA技术与药物开发 Topic 6:肝脏疾病与病毒感染研究 Topic 7:癌症免疫治疗与细胞信号研究 Topic 8:疫苗研究与开发 Topic 9:免疫调节研究 | Topic 10:细胞靶向药物传递系统 Topic 11:基因编辑与药物传递系统 Topic 12:纳米技术与疾病治疗 Topic 13:分子生物学与基因研究 Topic 14:癌症治疗与生物标志物 Topic 15:细胞培养与生物分子传递研究 Topic 16:神经退行性疾病动物模型研究 Topic 17:病毒反应性研究 Topic 18:呼吸道与结直肠疾病 |
| 2023—2024年 | Topic 0:核酸技术 Topic 1:肝癌治疗 Topic 2:血小板与病毒感染 Topic 3:脂质纳米颗粒药物传递系统 Topic 4:癌症治疗 Topic 5:RNA技术在分子生物学的应用 Topic 6:生物技术性能评估与病毒学研究 Topic 7:肠道与心血管疾病的治疗策略 Topic 8:mRNA合成与产品制备 Topic 9:免疫调节与抗体研究 | Topic 10:细胞与组织治疗应用 Topic 11:siRNA疾病治疗 Topic 12:基因编辑与分子生物学技术 Topic 13:mRNA疫苗与蛋白质治疗 Topic 14:癌症治疗 Topic 15:抑郁症的生物标注物与疾病诊断 Topic 16:免疫检查点抑制剂 Topic 17:阿尔兹海默症治疗 Topic 18:mRNA疫苗研发 |
| 所有阶段 (2001—2024年) | Topic 0:化学化合物与药物成分 Topic 1:基因与细胞实验技术 Topic 2:mRNA与蛋白质的应用 Topic 3:基因表达与检测 Topic 4:癌症的治疗与诊断 Topic 5:疾病治疗与药物成分 Topic 6:核酸与肽类化合物 Topic 7:mRNA构建与编辑 | Topic 8:基因调控与疾病 Topic 9:疫苗与病毒研究 Topic 10:药物递送系统 Topic 11:核酸分子与基因表达 Topic 12:基因与细胞实验模型 Topic 13:抗体与蛋白质工程 Topic 14:免疫细胞与癌症免疫治疗 Topic 15:mRNA序列与基因编辑 |
感谢中国科学院上海营养与健康研究所王洪对本研究的支持与帮助。
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