[HTML][HTML] Alteration of the esophageal microbiota in Barrett's esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma

J Lv, L Guo, JJ Liu, HP Zhao, J Zhang… - World journal of …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The incidence of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) has increased in recent decades, and
its 5-year survival rate is less than 20%. As a well-established precursor, patients with …

[HTML][HTML] Base and prime editing technologies for blood disorders

P Antoniou, A Miccio, M Brusson - Frontiers in genome editing, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Nuclease-based genome editing strategies hold great promise for the treatment of blood
disorders. However, a major drawback of these approaches is the generation of potentially …

Optimized design parameters for CRISPR Cas9 and Cas12a homology-directed repair

MS Schubert, B Thommandru, J Woodley, R Turk… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
CRISPR–Cas proteins are RNA-guided nucleases used to introduce double-stranded
breaks (DSBs) at targeted genomic loci. DSBs are repaired by endogenous cellular …

Genome editing of HBG1 and HBG2 to induce fetal hemoglobin

JY Métais, PA Doerfler, T Mayuranathan… - Blood …, 2019 - ashpublications.org
Induction of fetal hemoglobin (HbF) via clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic
repeats/Cas9–mediated disruption of DNA regulatory elements that repress γ-globin gene …

Correction of X-CGD patient HSPCs by targeted CYBB cDNA insertion using CRISPR/Cas9 with 53BP1 inhibition for enhanced homology-directed repair

CL Sweeney, M Pavel-Dinu, U Choi, J Brault, T Liu… - Gene therapy, 2021 - nature.com
X-linked chronic granulomatous disease is an immunodeficiency characterized by defective
production of microbicidal reactive oxygen species (ROS) by phagocytes. Causative …

Homology-directed gene-editing approaches for hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell gene therapy

MKK Azhagiri, P Babu, V Venkatesan… - Stem Cell Research & …, 2021 - Springer
The advent of next-generation genome engineering tools like CRISPR-Cas9 has
transformed the field of gene therapy, rendering targeted treatment for several incurable …

Editing aberrant splice sites efficiently restores β-globin expression in β-thalassemia

S Xu, K Luk, Q Yao, AH Shen, J Zeng… - Blood, The Journal …, 2019 - ashpublications.org
The thalassemias are compelling targets for therapeutic genome editing in part because
monoallelic correction of a subset of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) would be sufficient for …

Applications of CRISPR-Cas9 as an advanced genome editing system in life sciences

K Tavakoli, A Pour-Aboughadareh, F Kianersi… - BioTech, 2021 - mdpi.com
Targeted nucleases are powerful genomic tools to precisely change the target genome of
living cells, controlling functional genes with high exactness. The clustered regularly …

Massively targeted evaluation of therapeutic CRISPR off-targets in cells

X Pan, K Qu, H Yuan, X Xiang, C Anthon… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Methods for sensitive and high-throughput evaluation of CRISPR RNA-guided nucleases
(RGNs) off-targets (OTs) are essential for advancing RGN-based gene therapies. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Therapeutic prospects of mRNA-based gene therapy for glioblastoma

X Tang, S Zhang, R Fu, L Zhang, K Huang… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The treatment of glioblastoma has been a big challenge for decades in the oncological field
mainly owing to its unique biological characteristics, such as high heterogeneity, diffusing …