Base editing: advances and therapeutic opportunities

EM Porto, AC Komor, IM Slaymaker… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Base editing—the introduction of single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) into DNA or RNA in
living cells—is one of the most recent advances in the field of genome editing. As around …

CRISPR-Cas tools and their application in genetic engineering of human stem cells and organoids

D Hendriks, H Clevers, B Artegiani - Cell stem cell, 2020 - cell.com
CRISPR-Cas technology has revolutionized biological research and holds great therapeutic
potential. Here, we review CRISPR-Cas systems and their latest developments with an …

Base editing rescue of spinal muscular atrophy in cells and in mice

M Arbab, Z Matuszek, KM Kray, A Du, GA Newby… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the leading genetic cause of infant mortality, arises from
survival motor neuron (SMN) protein insufficiency resulting from SMN1 loss. Approved …

CRISPR modeling and correction of cardiovascular disease

N Liu, EN Olson - Circulation research, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the
developed world. In recent decades, extraordinary effort has been devoted to defining the …

Optimization of base editors for the functional correction of SMN2 as a treatment for spinal muscular atrophy

CRR Alves, LL Ha, R Yaworski, ER Sutton… - Nature biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is caused by mutations in SMN1. SMN2 is a paralogous
gene with a C• G-to-T• A transition in exon 7, which causes this exon to be skipped in most …

The potential of CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing as a treatment strategy for inherited diseases

SA Abdelnour, L Xie, AA Hassanin, E Zuo… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) is a promising
innovative technology for genomic editing that offers scientists the chance to edit DNA …

A review on advanced CRISPR-based genome-editing tools: base editing and prime editing

A Saber Sichani, M Ranjbar, M Baneshi… - Molecular …, 2023 - Springer
In the field of medicine, it is axiomatic that the need of a precise gene-editing tool is critical to
employ therapeutic approaches toward pathogenic mutations, occurring in human genome …

History of development of the life-saving drug “Nusinersen” in spinal muscular atrophy

J Qiu, L Wu, R Qu, T Jiang, J Bai, L Sheng… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an autosomal recessive disorder with an incidence of
1/6,000–1/10,000 and is the leading fatal disease among infants. Previously, there was no …

[HTML][HTML] Correction of human nonsense mutation via adenine base editing for Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment in mouse

M Jin, J Lin, H Li, Z Li, D Yang, Y Wang, Y Yu… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2024 - cell.com
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is the most prevalent herediatry disease in men,
characterized by dystrophin deficiency, progressive muscle wasting, cardiac insufficiency …

Organoid factory: The recent role of the human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) in precision medicine

G Novelli, P Spitalieri, M Murdocca… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
During the last decades, hiPSC-derived organoids have been extensively studied and used
as in vitro models for several applications among which research studies. They can be …