RNA drugs and RNA targets for small molecules: principles, progress, and challenges

AM Yu, YH Choi, MJ Tu, RM TOUYZ - Pharmacological reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
RNA-based therapies, including RNA molecules as drugs and RNA-targeted small
molecules, offer unique opportunities to expand the range of therapeutic targets. Various …

Next-generation stem cells—ushering in a new era of cell-based therapies

EA Kimbrel, R Lanza - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2020 - nature.com
Naturally occurring stem cells isolated from humans have been used therapeutically for
decades. This has primarily involved the transplantation of primary cells such as …

Human genetic diversity alters off-target outcomes of therapeutic gene editing

S Cancellieri, J Zeng, LY Lin, M Tognon, MA Nguyen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR gene editing holds great promise to modify DNA sequences in somatic cells to treat
disease. However, standard computational and biochemical methods to predict off-target …

Highly efficient therapeutic gene editing of human hematopoietic stem cells

Y Wu, J Zeng, BP Roscoe, P Liu, Q Yao… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Re-expression of the paralogous γ-globin genes (HBG1/2) could be a universal strategy to
ameliorate the severe β-globin disorders sickle cell disease (SCD) and β-thalassemia by …

[HTML][HTML] Deliver the promise: RNAs as a new class of molecular entities for therapy and vaccination

AM Yu, MJ Tu - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2022 - Elsevier
The concepts of develo** RNAs as new molecular entities for therapies have arisen again
and again since the discoveries of antisense RNAs, direct RNA-protein interactions …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in CRISPR/Cas-based gene therapy in human genetic diseases

SS Wu, QC Li, CQ Yin, W Xue, CQ Song - Theranostics, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
CRISPR/Cas genome editing is a simple, cost effective, and highly specific technique for
introducing genetic variations. In mammalian cells, CRISPR/Cas can facilitate non …

Extinction of all infectious HIV in cell culture by the CRISPR-Cas12a system with only a single crRNA

Z Gao, M Fan, AT Das, E Herrera-Carrillo… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The CRISPR-Cas9 system has been used for genome editing of various organisms. We
reported inhibition of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in cell culture infections with a …

Precision editing as a therapeutic approach for β-hemoglobinopathies

K Paschoudi, E Yannaki, N Psatha - International Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Beta-hemoglobinopathies are the most common genetic disorders worldwide, caused by a
wide spectrum of mutations in the β-globin locus, and associated with morbidity and early …

Adenine base editor–mediated correction of the common and severe IVS1-110 (G> A) β-thalassemia mutation

G Hardouin, P Antoniou, P Martinucci, T Felix… - Blood, 2023 - ashpublications.org
Abstract β-Thalassemia (BT) is one of the most common genetic diseases worldwide and is
caused by mutations affecting β-globin production. The only curative treatment is allogenic …

Efficient homology-directed repair with circular single-stranded DNA donors

S Iyer, A Mir, J Vega-Badillo, BP Roscoe… - The CRISPR …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
While genome editing has been revolutionized by the advent of CRISPR-based nucleases,
difficulties in achieving efficient, nuclease-mediated, homology-directed repair (HDR) still …