CRISPR technologies for genome, epigenome and transcriptome editing

L Villiger, J Joung, L Koblan, J Weissman… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Our ability to edit genomes lags behind our capacity to sequence them, but the growing
understanding of CRISPR biology and its application to genome, epigenome and …

Past, present, and future of CRISPR genome editing technologies

M Pacesa, O Pelea, M **ek - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Genome editing has been a transformative force in the life sciences and human medicine,
offering unprecedented opportunities to dissect complex biological processes and treat the …

Exagamglogene autotemcel for transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia

F Locatelli, P Lang, D Wall, R Meisel… - … England Journal of …, 2024 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Exagamglogene autotemcel (exa-cel) is a nonviral cell therapy designed to
reactivate fetal hemoglobin synthesis through ex vivo clustered regularly interspaced short …

Engineering the next generation of cell-based therapeutics

CJ Bashor, IB Hilton, H Bandukwala… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2022 - nature.com
Cell-based therapeutics are an emerging modality with the potential to treat many currently
intractable diseases through uniquely powerful modes of action. Despite notable recent …

[HTML][HTML] High-content CRISPR screening

C Bock, P Datlinger, F Chardon, MA Coelho… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
CRISPR screens are a powerful source of biological discovery, enabling the unbiased
interrogation of gene function in a wide range of applications and species. In pooled …

CRISPR in cancer biology and therapy

A Katti, BJ Diaz, CM Caragine, NE Sanjana… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past decade, CRISPR has become as much a verb as it is an acronym,
transforming biomedical research and providing entirely new approaches for dissecting all …

Genome-wide association studies

E Uffelmann, QQ Huang, NS Munung… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) test hundreds of thousands of genetic variants
across many genomes to find those statistically associated with a specific trait or disease …

Thalassaemia

A Kattamis, JL Kwiatkowski, Y Aydinok - The lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Thalassaemia is a diverse group of genetic disorders with a worldwide distribution affecting
globin chain synthesis. The pathogenesis of thalassaemia lies in the unbalanced globin …

Evolution of an adenine base editor into a small, efficient cytosine base editor with low off-target activity

ME Neugebauer, A Hsu, M Arbab, NA Krasnow… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cytosine base editors (CBEs) are larger and can suffer from higher off-target activity or lower
on-target editing efficiency than current adenine base editors (ABEs). To develop a CBE that …

Epigenetic regulation of T cell exhaustion

JA Belk, B Daniel, AT Satpathy - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic antigen stimulation during viral infections and cancer can lead to T cell exhaustion,
which is characterized by reduced effector function and proliferation, and the expression of …