Harnessing the potential of hydrogels for advanced therapeutic applications: Current achievements and future directions

P Lu, D Ruan, M Huang, M Tian, K Zhu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
The applications of hydrogels have expanded significantly due to their versatile, highly
tunable properties and breakthroughs in biomaterial technologies. In this review, we cover …

Advances in HIV Gene Therapy

R Kitawi, S Ledger, AD Kelleher… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Early gene therapy studies held great promise for the cure of heritable diseases, but the
occurrence of various genotoxic events led to a pause in clinical trials and a more guarded …

[HTML][HTML] CRISPR-Cas12b enables a highly efficient attack on HIV proviral DNA in T cell cultures

M Fan, Y Bao, B Berkhout, E Herrera-Carrillo - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Background The novel endonuclease Cas12b was engineered for targeted
genome editing in mammalian cells and is a promising tool for certain applications because …

HIV Reservoirs and Treatment Strategies toward Curing HIV Infection

K Matsuda, K Maeda - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has significantly improved the prognosis of
individuals living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Acquired immunodeficiency …

Precision in Action: The Role of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/Cas in Gene Therapies

A Banda, O Impomeni, A Singh, AR Baloch, W Hu… - Vaccines, 2024 - mdpi.com
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeat (CRISPR)-associated enzyme-
CAS holds great promise for treating many uncured human diseases and illnesses by …

[HTML][HTML] Construction and Stability of All-in-One Adenovirus Vectors Simultaneously Expressing Four and Eight Multiplex Guide RNAs and Cas9 Nickase

T Nakahara, H Tabata, Y Kato, R Fuse… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
CRISPR/Cas9 technology is expected to offer novel genome editing-related therapies for
various diseases. We previously showed that an adenovirus vector (AdV) possessing eight …

The extracellular vesicles in HIV infection and progression: mechanisms, and theranostic implications

Z Tang, Y Lu, JL Dong, W Wu, J Li - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Extracellular vesicles (EVs), these minute yet mighty cellular messengers are redefining our
understanding of a spectrum of diseases, from cancer to cardiovascular ailments …

Low prevalence of HIV in the northern Cameroon: contribution of some AIDS restriction genes and potential implications for gene therapy

P Djataou, M Djuidje Ngounoue… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Background HIV infection and its progression to AIDS depend on several factors including
host genetic factors. The immunological mechanisms of host resistance to HIV infection …

The chemokine receptor CCR5: multi-faceted hook for HIV-1

N Faivre, C Verollet, F Dumas - Retrovirology, 2024 - Springer
Chemokines are cytokines whose primary role is cellular activation and stimulation of
leukocyte migration. They perform their various functions by interacting with G protein …

Revolutionizing in vivo therapy with CRISPR/Cas genome editing: breakthroughs, opportunities and challenges

A Macarrón Palacios, P Korus, BGC Wilkens… - Frontiers in Genome …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Genome editing using the CRISPR/Cas system has revolutionized the field of genetic
engineering, offering unprecedented opportunities for therapeutic applications in vivo …