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11 Citations
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CRISPR/Cas9 as a Mutagenic Factor

  • Andrey R. Shumega,
  • Youri I. Pavlov,
  • Angelina V. Chirinskaite,
  • Aleksandr A. Rubel,
  • Sergey G. Inge-Vechtomov and
  • Elena I. Stepchenkova

The discovery of the CRISPR/Cas9 microbial adaptive immune system has revolutionized the field of genetics, by greatly enhancing the capacity for genome editing. CRISPR/Cas9-based editing starts with DNA breaks (or other lesions) predominantly at tar...

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65 Citations
26,092 Views
40 Pages

CRISPR/Cas9 Landscape: Current State and Future Perspectives

  • Marina Tyumentseva,
  • Aleksandr Tyumentsev and
  • Vasiliy Akimkin

8 November 2023

CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)/Cas9 is a unique genome editing tool that can be easily used in a wide range of applications, including functional genomics, transcriptomics, epigenetics, biotechnology, plant enginee...

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38 Citations
6,480 Views
18 Pages

The CRISPR/Cas9 System Delivered by Extracellular Vesicles

  • Xinglong Zhu,
  • Mengyu Gao,
  • Yongfeng Yang,
  • Weimin Li,
  • Ji Bao and
  • Yi Li

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein (Cas) systems can precisely manipulate DNA sequences to change the characteristics of cells and organs, which has potential in the mechanistic research on gen...

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56 Citations
10,363 Views
21 Pages

CRISPR/Cas9 Technology and Its Utility for Crop Improvement

  • Hua Liu,
  • Wendan Chen,
  • Yushu Li,
  • Lei Sun,
  • Yuhong Chai,
  • Haixia Chen,
  • Haochen Nie and
  • Conglin Huang

9 September 2022

The rapid growth of the global population has resulted in a considerable increase in the demand for food crops. However, traditional crop breeding methods will not be able to satisfy the worldwide demand for food in the future. New gene-editing techn...

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1 Citations
4,431 Views
9 Pages

Genome-editing systems such as Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 technology have uncovered new opportunities to model diseases such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia. CRISPR/Cas9 is an important means of advancing...

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40 Citations
17,483 Views
16 Pages

CRISPR-Cas9: A Powerful Tool to Efficiently Engineer Saccharomyces cerevisiae

  • João Rainha,
  • Joana L. Rodrigues and
  • Lígia R. Rodrigues

26 December 2020

Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been for a long time a common model for fundamental biological studies and a popular biotechnological engineering platform to produce chemicals, fuels, and pharmaceuticals due to its peculiar characteristics. Both lines o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,378 Views
21 Pages

Comparison of CRISPR-MAD7 and CRISPR-Cas9 for Gene Disruptions in Komagataella phaffii

  • Kirill Smirnov,
  • Florian Weiss,
  • Anna-Maria Hatzl,
  • Lukas Rieder,
  • Kjeld Olesen,
  • Sanne Jensen and
  • Anton Glieder

5 March 2024

CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)-based technologies are powerful, programmable tools for site-directed genome modifications. After successful adaptation and efficient use of CRISPR-Cas9 for genome engineering in meth...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
12,612 Views
18 Pages

CRISPR-Cas9: A Revolutionary Tool for Cancer Modelling

  • Raul Torres-Ruiz and
  • Sandra Rodriguez-Perales

14 September 2015

The cancer-modelling field is now experiencing a conversion with the recent emergence of the RNA-programmable CRISPR-Cas9 system, a flexible methodology to produce essentially any desired modification in the genome. Cancer is a multistep process th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,572 Views
11 Pages

Although the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) system has been proved to be an efficient multiplex gene editing system in maize, it was still unclear how CRISPR/Cpf1 (Cas12a) system...

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56 Citations
20,767 Views
20 Pages

Applications of CRISPR/Cas9 for the Treatment of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

  • Kenji Rowel Q. Lim,
  • Chantal Yoon and
  • Toshifumi Yokota

24 November 2018

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a fatal X-linked recessive neuromuscular disease prevalent in 1 in 3500 to 5000 males worldwide. As a result of mutations that interrupt the reading frame of the dystrophin gene (DMD), DMD is characterized by a lo...

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54 Citations
17,064 Views
23 Pages

Application of CRISPR/Cas9 Technology in Cancer Treatment: A Future Direction

  • Ali A. Rabaan,
  • Hajir AlSaihati,
  • Rehab Bukhamsin,
  • Muhammed A. Bakhrebah,
  • Majed S. Nassar,
  • Abdulmonem A. Alsaleh,
  • Yousef N. Alhashem,
  • Ammar Y. Bukhamseen,
  • Khalil Al-Ruhimy and
  • Ranjan K. Mohapatra
  • + 11 authors

6 February 2023

Gene editing, especially with clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats associated protein 9 (CRISPR-Cas9), has advanced gene function science. Gene editing’s rapid advancement has increased its medical/clinical value. Due to it...

  • Review
  • Open Access
40 Citations
12,889 Views
17 Pages

Targeting Cancer with CRISPR/Cas9-Based Therapy

  • Katarzyna Balon,
  • Adam Sheriff,
  • Joanna Jacków and
  • Łukasz Łaczmański

Cancer is a devastating condition characterised by the uncontrolled division of cells with many forms remaining resistant to current treatment. A hallmark of cancer is the gradual accumulation of somatic mutations which drive tumorigenesis in cancero...

  • Review
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44 Citations
15,527 Views
15 Pages

Development and Applications of CRISPR/Cas9-Based Genome Editing in Lactobacillus

  • Yulin Mu,
  • Chengxiao Zhang,
  • Taihua Li,
  • Feng-Jie Jin,
  • Yun-Ju Sung,
  • Hee-Mock Oh,
  • Hyung-Gwan Lee and
  • Long Jin

25 October 2022

Lactobacillus, a genus of lactic acid bacteria, plays a crucial function in food production preservation, and probiotics. It is particularly important to develop new Lactobacillus strains with superior performance by gene editing. Currently, the iden...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
15,181 Views
20 Pages

CRISPR/Cas9-Based Lateral Flow and Fluorescence Diagnostics

  • Mark J. Osborn,
  • Akshay Bhardwaj,
  • Samuel P. Bingea,
  • Friederike Knipping,
  • Colby J. Feser,
  • Christopher J. Lees,
  • Daniel P. Collins,
  • Clifford J. Steer,
  • Bruce R. Blazar and
  • Jakub Tolar

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR/Cas) proteins can be designed to bind specified DNA and RNA sequences and hold great promise for the accurate detection of nucleic acids for diagnostics. We integrated commercially avai...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,322 Views
19 Pages

CRISPR-Cas9 in the Tailoring of Genetically Engineered Animals

  • Wiktoria Urban,
  • Marta Kropacz,
  • Maksymilian Łach and
  • Anna Jankowska

CRISPR-Cas9 enables targeted genome editing and has become a pivotal tool in biomedical research and animal genome engineering. This review highlights its application in generating genetically modified animals used as preclinical disease models, bior...

  • Review
  • Open Access
104 Citations
28,661 Views
25 Pages

The establishment of CRISPR/Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated protein 9) technology for eukaryotic gene editing opened up new avenues not only for the analysis of gene function but also for therapeutic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,349 Views
20 Pages

CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Genome Editing in Cancer Therapy

  • Shuai Ding,
  • Jinfeng Liu,
  • Xin Han and
  • Mengfan Tang

15 November 2023

The Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (CRISPR/Cas9) system, an RNA-based adaptive immune system found in bacteria and archaea, has catalyzed the development and application of a new generation of ge...

  • Review
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58 Citations
13,072 Views
17 Pages

Therapeutic Editing of the TP53 Gene: Is CRISPR/Cas9 an Option?

  • Regina Mirgayazova,
  • Raniya Khadiullina,
  • Vitaly Chasov,
  • Rimma Mingaleeva,
  • Regina Miftakhova,
  • Albert Rizvanov and
  • Emil Bulatov

25 June 2020

The TP53 gene encodes the transcription factor and oncosuppressor p53 protein that regulates a multitude of intracellular metabolic pathways involved in DNA damage repair, cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, and senescence. In many cases, alterations (e.g....

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,653 Views
22 Pages

Over the last decade, the clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (Cas9) system has become the most promising gene editing tool and is broadly utilized to manipulate the gene for disease treatme...

  • Review
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27 Citations
7,502 Views
18 Pages

7 September 2021

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is an aggressive malignancy of the brain and spinal cord with a poor life expectancy. The low survivability of GBM patients can be attributed, in part, to its heterogeneity and the presence of multiple genetic alteration...

  • Review
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71 Citations
10,013 Views
23 Pages

The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/associated protein 9 (CRISPR/Cas9) systems have emerged as a robust and versatile genome editing platform for gene correction, transcriptional regulation, disease modeling, and nu...

  • Review
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40 Citations
16,011 Views
10 Pages

Application of CRISPR/Cas9 Technology to HBV

  • Guigao Lin,
  • Kuo Zhang and
  • Jinming Li

2 November 2015

More than 240 million people around the world are chronically infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV). Nucleos(t)ide analogs and interferon are the only two families of drugs to treat HBV currently. However, none of these anti-virals directly target th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,062 Views
16 Pages

Complete and Prolonged Inhibition of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Infection In Vitro by CRISPR/Cas9 and CRISPR/CasX Systems

  • Dmitry S. Karpov,
  • Natalia A. Demidova,
  • Kirill A. Kulagin,
  • Anastasija I. Shuvalova,
  • Maxim A. Kovalev,
  • Ruslan A. Simonov,
  • Vadim L. Karpov,
  • Anastasiya V. Snezhkina,
  • Anna V. Kudryavtseva and
  • Alla A. Kushch
  • + 1 author

27 November 2022

Almost all people become infected with herpes viruses, including herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), during their lifetime. Typically, these viruses persist in a latent form that is resistant to all available antiviral medications. Under certain con...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
14,422 Views
27 Pages

CRISPR/Cas9—Advancing Orthopoxvirus Genome Editing for Vaccine and Vector Development

  • Arinze Okoli,
  • Malachy I. Okeke,
  • Morten Tryland and
  • Ugo Moens

22 January 2018

The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/associated protein 9 (Cas9) technology is revolutionizing genome editing approaches. Its high efficiency, specificity, versatility, flexibility, simplicity and low cost have made t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,454 Views
14 Pages

Application of CRISPR-Cas9 System to Study Biological Barriers to Drug Delivery

  • Ji He,
  • Riya Biswas,
  • Piyush Bugde,
  • Jiawei Li,
  • Dong-Xu Liu and
  • Yan Li

In recent years, sequence-specific clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-CRISPR-associated (Cas) systems have been widely used in genome editing of various cell types and organisms. The most developed and broadly used CRI...

  • Review
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60 Citations
12,439 Views
20 Pages

CRISPR/Cas9 for Insect Pests Management: A Comprehensive Review of Advances and Applications

  • Sanchita Singh,
  • Somnath Rahangdale,
  • Shivali Pandita,
  • Gauri Saxena,
  • Santosh Kumar Upadhyay,
  • Geetanjali Mishra and
  • Praveen C. Verma

10 November 2022

Insect pests impose a serious threat to agricultural productivity. Initially, for pest management, several breeding approaches were applied which have now been gradually replaced by genome editing (GE) strategies as they are more efficient and less l...

  • Review
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51 Citations
13,133 Views
15 Pages

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by the death of motor neurons in the spinal cord and brainstem. ALS has a diverse genetic origin; at least 20 genes have been shown to be related to ALS. Most familial and spor...

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22 Citations
8,763 Views
16 Pages

24 November 2019

Sphingolipidoses are inherited genetic diseases characterized by the accumulation of glycosphingolipids. Sphingolipidoses (SP), which usually involve the loss of sphingolipid hydrolase function, are of lysosomal origin, and represent an important gro...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
14,043 Views
13 Pages

Recent Advances in CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Genome Editing in Dictyostelium

  • Tetsuya Muramoto,
  • Hoshie Iriki,
  • Jun Watanabe and
  • Takefumi Kawata

12 January 2019

In the last 30 years, knockout of target genes via homologous recombination has been widely performed to clarify the physiological functions of proteins in Dictyostelium. As of late, CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing has become a versatile tool in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
101 Citations
10,273 Views
13 Pages

CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Deletion of Large Genomic Fragments in Soybean

  • Yupeng Cai,
  • Li Chen,
  • Shi Sun,
  • Cunxiang Wu,
  • Weiwei Yao,
  • Bingjun Jiang,
  • Tianfu Han and
  • Wensheng Hou

1 December 2018

At present, the application of CRISPR/Cas9 in soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.) has been mainly focused on knocking out target genes, and most site-directed mutagenesis has occurred at single cleavage sites and resulted in short deletions and/or inser...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,712 Views
39 Pages

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/CRISPR-associated protein 9 (CRISPR-Cas9), an emerging gene-editing technology, has recently gained rapidly increasing attention. However, the lack of efficient delivery vectors to deliver CRI...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
18,195 Views
18 Pages

Approaches to Enhance Precise CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Genome Editing

  • Christopher E. Denes,
  • Alexander J. Cole,
  • Yagiz Alp Aksoy,
  • Geng Li,
  • Graham Gregory Neely and
  • Daniel Hesselson

Modification of the human genome has immense potential for preventing or treating disease. Modern genome editing techniques based on CRISPR/Cas9 show great promise for altering disease-relevant genes. The efficacy of precision editing at CRISPR/Cas9-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,734 Views
12 Pages

Targeting TOR and SnRK1 Genes in Rice with CRISPR/Cas9

  • Bhuvan Pathak,
  • Chandan Maurya,
  • Maria C. Faria,
  • Zahra Alizada,
  • Soumen Nandy,
  • Shan Zhao,
  • Muhammed Jamsheer K and
  • Vibha Srivastava

30 May 2022

Genome targeting with CRISPR/Cas9 is a popular method for introducing mutations and creating knock-out effects. However, limited information is currently available on the mutagenesis of essential genes. This study investigated the efficiency of CRISP...

  • Review
  • Open Access
680 Views
22 Pages

28 December 2025

The genus Aspergillus comprises over 600 species of filamentous fungi. This genus significantly impacts human health, food fermentation, and industrial biotechnology. With the in-depth research and applications of Aspergillus species in many fields,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
13,924 Views
13 Pages

Genome Editing Using CRISPR-Cas9 and Autoimmune Diseases: A Comprehensive Review

  • Min Ho Lee,
  • Jae Il Shin,
  • Jae Won Yang,
  • Keum Hwa Lee,
  • Do Hyeon Cha,
  • Jun Beom Hong,
  • Yeoeun Park,
  • Eugene Choi,
  • Kalthoum Tizaoui and
  • Lee Smith
  • + 4 authors

25 January 2022

Autoimmune diseases are disorders that destruct or disrupt the body’s own tissues by its own immune system. Several studies have revealed that polymorphisms of multiple genes are involved in autoimmune diseases. Meanwhile, gene therapy has beco...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,465 Views
19 Pages

CRISPR-Cas9 in Cardiovascular Medicine: Unlocking New Potential for Treatment

  • Klaudia Bonowicz,
  • Dominika Jerka,
  • Klaudia Piekarska,
  • Janet Olagbaju,
  • Laura Stapleton,
  • Munirat Shobowale,
  • Andrzej Bartosiński,
  • Magdalena Łapot,
  • Yidong Bai and
  • Maciej Gagat

17 January 2025

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) remain a significant global health challenge, with many current treatments addressing symptoms rather than the genetic roots of these conditions. The advent of CRISPR-Cas9 technology has revolutionized genome editing, o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,176 Views
14 Pages

Conditional Control of CRISPR/Cas9 Function by Chemically Modified Oligonucleotides

  • Liangliang Wang,
  • Yan Liu,
  • Hongjun Song,
  • Xue Zhang and
  • Yang Wang

28 April 2025

The CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) system has emerged as a revolutionary gene-editing tool with immense potential in gene therapy, functional genomics, and beyond. However, achieving precise spatiotemporal control...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,700 Views
13 Pages

Valproic Acid Significantly Improves CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Gene Editing

  • Hanseul Park,
  • Jaein Shin,
  • Hwan Choi,
  • Byounggook Cho and
  • Jongpil Kim

10 June 2020

The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9 system has emerged as a powerful technology, with the potential to generate transgenic animals. Particularly, efficient and precise genetic editing with CRISPR/Cas9 offers im...

  • Protocol
  • Open Access
24 Citations
11,638 Views
33 Pages

CRISPR-Cas9 is revolutionizing the field of genome editing in non-model organisms. The robustness, ease of use, replicability and affordability of the technology has resulted in its widespread adoption among researchers. The African butterfly Bicyclu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
172 Citations
19,149 Views
16 Pages

Application of CRISPR/Cas9 in Crop Quality Improvement

  • Qier Liu,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Jingjuan Zhang,
  • Hang Liu,
  • Shanjida Rahman,
  • Shahidul Islam,
  • Wujun Ma and
  • Maoyun She

The various crop species are major agricultural products and play an indispensable role in sustaining human life. Over a long period, breeders strove to increase crop yield and improve quality through traditional breeding strategies. Today, many bree...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,290 Views
22 Pages

Nanotechnology-Based Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 for Cancer Treatment: A Comprehensive Review

  • Mohd Ahmar Rauf,
  • Afifa Rao,
  • Siva Sankari Sivasoorian and
  • Arun K. Iyer

23 July 2025

CRISPR/Cas9 (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats-associated protein 9)-mediated genome editing has emerged as a transformative tool in medicine, offering significant potential for cancer therapy because of its capacity to precis...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,106 Views
15 Pages

Progresses, Challenges, and Prospects of CRISPR/Cas9 Gene-Editing in Glioma Studies

  • Xianhui Kang,
  • Yijian Wang,
  • Pan Liu,
  • Baojun Huang,
  • Baofeng Zhou,
  • Shufang Lu,
  • Wujun Geng and
  • Hongli Tang

6 January 2023

Glioma refers to a tumor that is derived from brain glial stem cells or progenitor cells and is the most common primary intracranial tumor. Due to its complex cellular components, as well as the aggressiveness and specificity of the pathogenic site o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,312 Views
11 Pages

Influence of N1-Methylpseudouridine in Guide RNAs on CRISPR/Cas9 Activity

  • Daria Prokhorova,
  • Anastasiya Matveeva,
  • Alexander Zakabunin,
  • Alexander Ryabchenko and
  • Grigory Stepanov

4 December 2023

At present, there are many strategies to improve the activity of CRISPR/Cas9. A well-known and effective approach is guide RNA modification. Many chemical guide RNA modifications have been studied, whereas naturally occurring RNA modifications are la...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,417 Views
8 Pages

A Simple and Low-Cost CRISPR/Cas9 Knockout System Widely Applicable to Insects

  • Jun Cao,
  • Keli Wu,
  • Xin Wei,
  • Jiaojiao Li,
  • Chun Liu and
  • Tingcai Cheng

The CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing system is a standard technique in functional genomics, with widespread applications. However, the establishment of a CRISPR/Cas9 system is challenging. Previous studies have presented numerous methodologies for establishi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
70 Citations
10,727 Views
19 Pages

Antibiotic resistance is a significant crisis that threatens human health and safety worldwide. There is an urgent need for new strategies to control multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections. The latest breakthrough in gene-editing tools based...

  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
3,944 Views
19 Pages

Advances in Chitosan-Based CRISPR/Cas9 Delivery Systems

  • Anna E. Caprifico,
  • Peter J. S. Foot,
  • Elena Polycarpou and
  • Gianpiero Calabrese

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) and the associated Cas endonuclease (Cas9) is a cutting-edge genome-editing technology that specifically targets DNA sequences by using short RNA molecules, helping the endonuclease Ca...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,633 Views
14 Pages

Current Status of CRISPR/Cas9 Application in Clinical Cancer Research: Opportunities and Challenges

  • Saeed Rafii,
  • Emad Tashkandi,
  • Nedal Bukhari and
  • Humaid O. Al-Shamsi

14 February 2022

Cancer is considered by not only multiple genetic but also epigenetic amendments that drive malignant cell propagation and consult chemo-resistance. The ability to correct or ablate such mutations holds enormous promise for battling cancer. Recently,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,974 Views
11 Pages

Improved CRISPR/Cas9 Tools for the Rapid Metabolic Engineering of Clostridium acetobutylicum

  • Tom Wilding-Steele,
  • Quentin Ramette,
  • Paul Jacottin and
  • Philippe Soucaille

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/Cas (CRISPR-associated proteins)9 tools have revolutionized biology—several highly efficient tools have been constructed that have resulted in the ability to quickly engineer model ba...

  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,258 Views
28 Pages

Advances in Nanoparticles as Non-Viral Vectors for Efficient Delivery of CRISPR/Cas9

  • Minse Kim,
  • Youngwoo Hwang,
  • Seongyu Lim,
  • Hyeon-Ki Jang and
  • Hyun-Ouk Kim

The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/Cas9 system is a gene-editing technology. Nanoparticle delivery systems have attracted attention because of the limitations of conventional viral vectors. In this review, we assess...

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