Durable — even in dividing cells
The written copy persists, and a self-renewing version duplicates with each cell division — so expression lasts even where AAV dilutes away. mRNA and circRNA fade in days to weeks.
A new class of gene therapy
Nyxa makes durable gene therapies — delivered like a vaccine, programmed like software, without viruses.
The idea
Today, gene therapy delivers DNA. We deliver the recipe to make DNA — inside the cell. It is all RNA, manufactured the same way as a COVID vaccine.
We send the cell RNA instructions — the same kind of molecule as an mRNA vaccine.
A tiny lipid droplet carries them into the cell. A simple, re-doseable shot.
The cell reads the instructions and makes its own lasting copy of the healthy gene.
That copy keeps making the needed protein long-term — and can be topped up.
Delivered like a vaccine — lasts like a gene therapy.
Differentiation
The written copy persists, and a self-renewing version duplicates with each cell division — so expression lasts even where AAV dilutes away. mRNA and circRNA fade in days to weeks.
Episomal — no genome cutting, no integration, no anti-capsid immunity. A cleaner safety story than CRISPR or lentivirus, and you can dose it again.
An RNA recipe has no capsid — no ~4.7 kb limit — reaching big-gene diseases (Factor VIII, von Willebrand, CPS1) that can’t fit inside a virus.
Amplification happens at the DNA level, not by RNA self-replication — avoiding the double-stranded-RNA innate trigger that makes self-amplifying RNA inflammatory.
Get in touch
We’re building the delivery platform that comes after AAV. If you invest in, partner with, or want to build genome medicine, let’s talk.
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