CRISPR technology: A decade of genome editing is only the beginning

JY Wang, JA Doudna - Science, 2023 - science.org
The advent of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) genome
editing, coupled with advances in computing and imaging capabilities, has initiated a new …

Prime editing for precise and highly versatile genome manipulation

PJ Chen, DR Liu - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Programmable gene-editing tools have transformed the life sciences and have shown
potential for the treatment of genetic disease. Among the CRISPR–Cas technologies that …

[HTML][HTML] Drugging p53 in cancer: one protein, many targets

O Hassin, M Oren - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, 2023 - nature.com
Mutations in the TP53 tumour suppressor gene are very frequent in cancer, and attempts to
restore the functionality of p53 in tumours as a therapeutic strategy began decades ago …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Programmable deletion, replacement, integration and inversion of large DNA sequences with twin prime editing

AV Anzalone, XD Gao, CJ Podracky, AT Nelson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The targeted deletion, replacement, integration or inversion of genomic sequences could be
used to study or treat human genetic diseases, but existing methods typically require double …

Engineered pegRNAs improve prime editing efficiency

JW Nelson, PB Randolph, SP Shen, KA Everette… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Prime editing enables the installation of virtually any combination of point mutations, small
insertions or small deletions in the DNA of living cells. A prime editing guide RNA (pegRNA) …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Frequent aneuploidy in primary human T cells after CRISPR–Cas9 cleavage

AD Nahmad, E Reuveni, E Goldschmidt, T Tenne… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Multiple clinical trials of allogeneic T cell therapy use site-specific nucleases to disrupt T cell
receptor (TCR) and other genes,,,,–. In this study, using single-cell RNA sequencing, we …