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 …

Cellular senescence in ageing: from mechanisms to therapeutic opportunities

R Di Micco, V Krizhanovsky, D Baker… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Cellular senescence, first described in vitro in 1961, has become a focus for biotech
companies that target it to ameliorate a variety of human conditions. Eminently characterized …

Genotoxic effects of base and prime editing in human hematopoietic stem cells

M Fiumara, S Ferrari, A Omer-Javed, S Beretta… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Base and prime editors (BEs and PEs) may provide more precise genetic engineering than
nuclease-based approaches because they bypass the dependence on DNA double-strand …

Ex vivo prime editing of patient haematopoietic stem cells rescues sickle-cell disease phenotypes after engraftment in mice

KA Everette, GA Newby, RM Levine… - Nature biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
Sickle-cell disease (SCD) is caused by an A· T-to-T· A transversion mutation in the β-globin
gene (HBB). Here we show that prime editing can correct the SCD allele (HBB S) to wild …

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 …

Mitigation of chromosome loss in clinical CRISPR-Cas9-engineered T cells

CA Tsuchida, N Brandes, R Bueno, M Trinidad… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing has enabled advanced T cell therapies, but occasional loss
of the targeted chromosome remains a safety concern. To investigate whether Cas9-induced …

[HTML][HTML] Massively parallel base editing to map variant effects in human hematopoiesis

JD Martin-Rufino, N Castano, M Pang, EI Grody… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Systematic evaluation of the impact of genetic variants is critical for the study and treatment
of human physiology and disease. While specific mutations can be introduced by genome …

Epitope editing enables targeted immunotherapy of acute myeloid leukaemia

G Casirati, A Cosentino, A Mucci, M Salah Mahmoud… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Despite the considerable efficacy observed when targeting a dispensable lineage antigen,
such as CD19 in B cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia,, the broader applicability of adoptive …

CRISPR-based genome editing through the lens of DNA repair

TS Nambiar, L Baudrier, P Billon, A Ciccia - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Genome editing technologies operate by inducing site-specific DNA perturbations that are
resolved by cellular DNA repair pathways. Products of genome editors include DNA breaks …

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 …