The promise and challenge of therapeutic genome editing

JA Doudna - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Genome editing, which involves the precise manipulation of cellular DNA sequences to alter
cell fates and organism traits, has the potential to both improve our understanding of human …

Gene therapy using haematopoietic stem and progenitor cells

G Ferrari, AJ Thrasher, A Aiuti - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Haematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) gene therapy has emerged as an effective
treatment modality for monogenic disorders of the blood system such as primary …

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 …

Identification of non-coding silencer elements and their regulation of gene expression

B Pang, JH van Weerd, FL Hamoen… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Cell type-and differentiation-specific gene expression is precisely controlled by genomic non-
coding regulatory elements (NCREs), which include promoters, enhancers, silencers and …

Development of β-globin gene correction in human hematopoietic stem cells as a potential durable treatment for sickle cell disease

A Lattanzi, J Camarena, P Lahiri, H Segal… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common serious monogenic disease with 300,000
births annually worldwide. SCD is an autosomal recessive disease resulting from a single …

Gene editing and CRISPR in the clinic: current and future perspectives

MP Hirakawa, R Krishnakumar, JA Timlin… - Bioscience …, 2020 - portlandpress.com
Genome editing technologies, particularly those based on zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs),
transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs), and CRISPR (clustered regularly …

Comprehensive review of CRISPR-based gene editing: mechanisms, challenges, and applications in cancer therapy

M Chehelgerdi, M Chehelgerdi… - Molecular cancer, 2024 - Springer
The CRISPR system is a revolutionary genome editing tool that has the potential to
revolutionize the field of cancer research and therapy. The ability to precisely target and edit …

Comprehensive analysis and accurate quantification of unintended large gene modifications induced by CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing

SH Park, M Cao, Y Pan, TH Davis, L Saxena… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Most genome editing analyses to date are based on quantifying small insertions and
deletions. Here, we show that CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing can induce large gene …

Defining global strategies to improve outcomes in sickle cell disease: a Lancet Haematology Commission

FB Piel, DC Rees, MR DeBaun, O Nnodu… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Executive summary All over the world, people with sickle cell disease (an inherited
condition) have premature deaths and preventable severe chronic complications, which …

Hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy: progress and lessons learned

RA Morgan, D Gray, A Lomova, DB Kohn - Cell stem cell, 2017 - cell.com
The use of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) to treat genetic blood cell diseases
has become a clinical standard but is limited by the availability of suitable matched donors …