CRISPR/Cas9 therapeutics: progress and prospects

T Li, Y Yang, H Qi, W Cui, L Zhang, X Fu, X He… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated
protein 9 (Cas9) gene-editing technology is the ideal tool of the future for treating diseases …

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 …

Efficient in vivo genome editing prevents hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in mice

D Reichart, GA Newby, H Wakimoto, M Lun… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Dominant missense pathogenic variants in cardiac myosin heavy chain cause hypertrophic
cardiomyopathy (HCM), a currently incurable disorder that increases risk for stroke, heart …

Off-target effects in CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing

C Guo, X Ma, F Gao, Y Guo - Frontiers in bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Gene editing stands for the methods to precisely make changes to a specific nucleic acid
sequence. With the recent development of the clustered regularly interspaced short …

Therapeutic in vivo delivery of gene editing agents

A Raguram, S Banskota, DR Liu - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
In vivo gene editing therapies offer the potential to treat the root causes of many genetic
diseases. Realizing the promise of therapeutic in vivo gene editing requires the ability to …

Engineered virus-like particles for efficient in vivo delivery of therapeutic proteins

S Banskota, A Raguram, S Suh, SW Du, JR Davis… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Methods to deliver gene editing agents in vivo as ribonucleoproteins could offer safety
advantages over nucleic acid delivery approaches. We report the development and …

Base editing correction of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in human cardiomyocytes and humanized mice

AC Chai, M Cui, F Chemello, H Li, K Chen, W Tan… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The most common form of genetic heart disease is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM),
which is caused by variants in cardiac sarcomeric genes and leads to abnormal heart …

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 …

Assessing and advancing the safety of CRISPR-Cas tools: from DNA to RNA editing

J Tao, DE Bauer, R Chiarle - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR-Cas gene editing has revolutionized experimental molecular biology over the past
decade and holds great promise for the treatment of human genetic diseases. Here we …

Potent and uniform fetal hemoglobin induction via base editing

T Mayuranathan, GA Newby, R Feng, Y Yao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Inducing fetal hemoglobin (HbF) in red blood cells can alleviate β-thalassemia and sickle
cell disease. We compared five strategies in CD34+ hematopoietic stem and progenitor …