RNA‐based medicine: from molecular mechanisms to therapy

A Sparmann, J Vogel - The EMBO Journal, 2023 - embopress.org
RNA‐based therapeutics have the potential to revolutionize the treatment and prevention of
human diseases. While early research faced setbacks, it established the basis for …

Treating sickle cell disease: gene therapy approaches

M Cavazzana, A Corsia, M Brusson… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hereditary blood disorder characterized by the presence of
abnormal hemoglobin molecules and thus distortion (sickling) of the red blood cells. SCD …

Directed evolution of engineered virus-like particles with improved production and transduction efficiencies

A Raguram, M An, PZ Chen, DR Liu - Nature Biotechnology, 2024 - nature.com
Engineered virus-like particles (eVLPs) are promising vehicles for transient delivery of
proteins and RNAs, including gene editing agents. We report a system for the laboratory …

High-fidelity PAMless base editing of hematopoietic stem cells to treat chronic granulomatous disease

V Bzhilyanskaya, L Ma, S Liu, LR Fox… - Science translational …, 2024 - science.org
X-linked chronic granulomatous disease (X-CGD) is an inborn error of immunity (IEI)
resulting from genetic mutations in the cytochrome b-245 beta chain (CYBB) gene. The …

Impact of CRISPR/HDR editing versus lentiviral transduction on long-term engraftment and clonal dynamics of HSPCs in rhesus macaques

BC Lee, A Gin, C Wu, K Singh, M Grice, R Mortlock… - Cell stem cell, 2024 - cell.com
For precise genome editing via CRISPR/homology-directed repair (HDR), effective and safe
editing of long-term engrafting hematopoietic stem cells (LT-HSCs) is required. The impact …

Hope on the Horizon: New and Future Therapies for sickle cell disease

FA Kuriri - Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2023 - mdpi.com
This article provides an overview of conventional, new, and future treatment options for
sickle cell disease (SCD), a genetic disorder affecting the production of hemoglobin. Current …

Bone-marrow-homing lipid nanoparticles for genome editing in diseased and malignant haematopoietic stem cells

X Lian, S Chatterjee, Y Sun, SA Dilliard… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Therapeutic genome editing of haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) would provide long-lasting
treatments for multiple diseases. However, the in vivo delivery of genetic medicines to HSCs …

Gene therapy and gene editing strategies in inherited blood disorders

X Song, JL Liu, T Chen, T Zheng, X Wang… - Journal of Genetics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Gene therapy has shown significant potential in treating various diseases, particularly
inherited blood disorders such as hemophilia, sickle cell disease, and thalassemia …

[HTML][HTML] C2H2 zinc finger transcription factors associated with hemoglobinopathies

X Zhang, F **a, X Zhang, RM Blumenthal… - Journal of molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
In humans, specific aberrations in β-globin results in sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia,
symptoms of which can be ameliorated by increased expression of fetal globin (HbF). Two …

Understanding variants of unknown significance: the computational frontier

X Fu, R Rabadan - The Oncologist, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The rapid advancement of sequencing technologies has led to the identification of
numerous mutations in cancer genomes, many of which are variants of unknown …