Current status and future prospects in cannabinoid production through in vitro culture and synthetic biology

M Hesami, M Pepe, A Baiton, AMP Jones - Biotechnology Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
For centuries, cannabis has been a rich source of fibrous, pharmaceutical, and recreational
ingredients. Phytocannabinoids are the most important and well-known class of cannabis …

Genetic engineering meets hematopoietic stem cell biology for next-generation gene therapy

S Ferrari, E Valeri, A Conti, S Scala, A Aprile… - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The growing clinical success of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell (HSPC) gene therapy
(GT) relies on the development of viral vectors as portable" Trojan horses" for safe and …

Human genetic diversity alters off-target outcomes of therapeutic gene editing

S Cancellieri, J Zeng, LY Lin, M Tognon, MA Nguyen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR gene editing holds great promise to modify DNA sequences in somatic cells to treat
disease. However, standard computational and biochemical methods to predict off-target …

CRISPR-based therapeutics: current challenges and future applications

AE Modell, D Lim, TM Nguyen, V Sreekanth… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
The discovery, only a decade ago, of the genome editing power of clustered regularly
interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated nucleases is already …

[HTML][HTML] Production and characterization of virus-free, CRISPR-CAR T cells capable of inducing solid tumor regression

KP Mueller, NJ Piscopo, MH Forsberg… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells have demonstrated high clinical
response rates against hematological malignancies (eg, CD19+ cancers) but have shown …

Benchmarking deep learning methods for predicting CRISPR/Cas9 sgRNA on-and off-target activities

G Zhang, Y Luo, X Dai, Z Dai - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In silico design of single guide RNA (sgRNA) plays a critical role in clustered regularly
interspaced, short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (CRISPR/Cas9) …

[HTML][HTML] CRISPR-based bioengineering in microalgae for production of industrially important biomolecules

D Dhokane, A Shaikh, A Yadav, N Giri… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Microalgae, as photosynthetic organisms, have the potential to produce biomolecules for
use in food, feed, cosmetics, nutraceuticals, fuel, and other applications. Faster growth rates …

Functional annotation of lncRNA in high-throughput screening

CW Yip, DM Sivaraman, AV Prabhu… - Essays in …, 2021 - portlandpress.com
Recent efforts on the characterization of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) revealed their
functional roles in modulating diverse cellular processes. These include pluripotency …

Novel strategies in transplantation: genetic engineering and vascularized composite allotransplantation

M Kauke-Navarro, OF Noel, L Knoedler… - Journal of Surgical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Despite the clinical success in vascularized composite allotransplantation
(VCA), systemic immunosuppression remains necessary to prevent allograft rejection. Even …

[HTML][HTML] Advancements in CRISPR screens for the development of cancer immunotherapy strategies

YR Li, Z Lyu, Y Tian, Y Fang, Y Zhu, Y Chen… - Molecular Therapy …, 2023 - cell.com
CRISPR screen technology enables systematic and scalable interrogation of gene function
by using the CRISPR-Cas9 system to perturb gene expression. In the field of cancer …