Gene therapy clinical trials worldwide to 2017: An update

SL Ginn, AK Amaya, IE Alexander… - The journal of gene …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
To date, almost 2600 gene therapy clinical trials have been completed, are ongoing or have
been approved worldwide. Our database brings together global information on gene therapy …

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 …

Extracellular nanovesicles for packaging of CRISPR-Cas9 protein and sgRNA to induce therapeutic exon skipping

P Gee, MSY Lung, Y Okuzaki, N Sasakawa… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Prolonged expression of the CRISPR-Cas9 nuclease and gRNA from viral vectors may
cause off-target mutagenesis and immunogenicity. Thus, a transient delivery system is …

A highly specific SpCas9 variant is identified by in vivo screening in yeast

A Casini, M Olivieri, G Petris, C Montagna… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Despite the utility of CRISPR–Cas9 nucleases for genome editing, the potential for off-target
activity limits their application, especially for therapeutic purposes,. We developed a yeast …

Self-inactivating, all-in-one AAV vectors for precision Cas9 genome editing via homology-directed repair in vivo

R Ibraheim, PWL Tai, A Mir, N Javeed, J Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors are important delivery platforms for therapeutic
genome editing but are severely constrained by cargo limits. Simultaneous delivery of …

Improving CRISPR–Cas specificity with chemical modifications in single-guide RNAs

DE Ryan, D Taussig, I Steinfeld… - Nucleic acids …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
CRISPR systems have emerged as transformative tools for altering genomes in living cells
with unprecedented ease, inspiring keen interest in increasing their specificity for perfectly …

Carrier strategies boost the application of CRISPR/Cas system in gene therapy

Z Xu, Q Wang, H Zhong, Y Jiang, X Shi, B Yuan… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat/associated protein
(CRISPR/Cas) genome editing technology shows great potential in gene therapy. However …

CRISPR-Cas9-mediated genome editing increases lifespan and improves motor deficits in a Huntington's disease mouse model

FK Ekman, DS Ojala, MM Adil, PA Lopez… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2019 - cell.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is a currently incurable and, ultimately, fatal neurodegenerative
disorder caused by a CAG trinucleotide repeat expansion within exon 1 of the huntingtin …

A glance at genome editing with CRISPR–Cas9 technology

A Barman, B Deb, S Chakraborty - Current genetics, 2020 - Springer
In recent years, CRISPR–Cas9 technology is widely acknowledged for having major
applications in the field of biotechnology for editing genome of any organism to treat a …

Recent advances in improving gene-editing specificity through CRISPR–Cas9 nuclease engineering

X Huang, D Yang, J Zhang, J Xu, YE Chen - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
CRISPR–Cas9 is the state-of-the-art programmable genome-editing tool widely used in
many areas. For safe therapeutic applications in clinical medicine, its off-target effect must …