CRISPR technology: A decade of genome editing is only the beginning

JY Wang, JA Doudna - Science, 2023 - science.org
The advent of clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) genome
editing, coupled with advances in computing and imaging capabilities, has initiated a new …

CRISPR in cancer biology and therapy

A Katti, BJ Diaz, CM Caragine, NE Sanjana… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past decade, CRISPR has become as much a verb as it is an acronym,
transforming biomedical research and providing entirely new approaches for dissecting all …

Engineered virus-like particles for efficient in vivo delivery of therapeutic proteins

S Banskota, A Raguram, S Suh, SW Du, JR Davis… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Methods to deliver gene editing agents in vivo as ribonucleoproteins could offer safety
advantages over nucleic acid delivery approaches. We report the development and …

Evolution of an adenine base editor into a small, efficient cytosine base editor with low off-target activity

ME Neugebauer, A Hsu, M Arbab, NA Krasnow… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cytosine base editors (CBEs) are larger and can suffer from higher off-target activity or lower
on-target editing efficiency than current adenine base editors (ABEs). To develop a CBE that …

Assessing and advancing the safety of CRISPR-Cas tools: from DNA to RNA editing

J Tao, DE Bauer, R Chiarle - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
CRISPR-Cas gene editing has revolutionized experimental molecular biology over the past
decade and holds great promise for the treatment of human genetic diseases. Here we …

Precise plant genome editing using base editors and prime editors

KA Molla, S Sretenovic, KC Bansal, Y Qi - Nature Plants, 2021 - nature.com
The development of CRISPR–Cas systems has sparked a genome editing revolution in
plant genetics and breeding. These sequence-specific RNA-guided nucleases can induce …

Improved cytosine base editors generated from TadA variants

DK Lam, PR Feliciano, A Arif, T Bohnuud… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cytosine base editors (CBEs) enable programmable genomic C· G-to-T· A transition
mutations and typically comprise a modified CRISPR–Cas enzyme, a naturally occurring …

Genome editing with CRISPR–Cas nucleases, base editors, transposases and prime editors

AV Anzalone, LW Koblan, DR Liu - Nature biotechnology, 2020 - nature.com
The development of new CRISPR–Cas genome editing tools continues to drive major
advances in the life sciences. Four classes of CRISPR–Cas-derived genome editing agents …

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 …

Discovery of deaminase functions by structure-based protein clustering

J Huang, Q Lin, H Fei, Z He, H Xu, Y Li, K Qu, P Han… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The elucidation of protein function and its exploitation in bioengineering have greatly
advanced the life sciences. Protein mining efforts generally rely on amino acid sequences …