CRISPR/Cas9 therapeutics: progress and prospects

T Li, Y Yang, H Qi, W Cui, L Zhang, X Fu, X He… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated
protein 9 (Cas9) gene-editing technology is the ideal tool of the future for treating diseases …

Structural biology of SARS-CoV-2 and implications for therapeutic development

H Yang, Z Rao - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), is an unprecedented global health crisis. However, therapeutic options for …

Structural biology of SARS-CoV-2: open the door for novel therapies

W Yan, Y Zheng, X Zeng, B He, W Cheng - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the causative
agent of the pandemic disease COVID-19, which is so far without efficacious treatment. The …

The COVID-19 puzzle: deciphering pathophysiology and phenotypes of a new disease entity

MF Osuchowski, MS Winkler, T Skirecki… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
The zoonotic SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, with
devastating consequences. While the medical community has gained insight into the …

The development of COVID-19 treatment

Y Yuan, B Jiao, L Qu, D Yang, R Liu - Frontiers in immunology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) caused
a pandemic named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that has become the greatest …

Fast and sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA using suboptimal protospacer adjacent motifs for Cas12a

S Lu, X Tong, Y Han, K Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nature biomedical …, 2022 - nature.com
CRISPR-based assays for the detection of nucleic acids are highly specific, yet they are not
fast, sensitive or easy to use. Here we report a one-step fluorescence assay for the detection …

SARS-CoV-2-specific immune response and the pathogenesis of COVID-19

E Gusev, A Sarapultsev, L Solomatina… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The review aims to consolidate research findings on the molecular mechanisms and
virulence and pathogenicity characteristics of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) causative …

The SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein and its role in viral structure, biological functions, and a potential target for drug or vaccine mitigation

Z Bai, Y Cao, W Liu, J Li - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
The impact of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) on the world
is still expanding. Thus, there is an urgent need to better understand this novel virus and find …

COVID-19 2022 update: transition of the pandemic to the endemic phase

M Biancolella, VL Colona, R Mehrian-Shai, JL Watt… - Human genomics, 2022 - Springer
COVID-19, which is caused by the SARS-CoV-2, has ravaged the world for the past 2 years.
Here, we review the current state of research into the disease with focus on its history …

Review of COVID-19 vaccine subtypes, efficacy and geographical distributions

AI Francis, S Ghany, T Gilkes… - Postgraduate medical …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
As of 1 May 2021, there have been 152 661 445 Covid-19 cases with 3 202 256 deaths
globally. This pandemic led to the race to discover a vaccine to achieve herd immunity and …