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The trends driving ELRIG Drug Discovery 2022

Drug Discovery World

This year, genome engineering company Synthego launched a portfolio of Engineered Cell Librariesnto help improve access to CRISPR-edited cells for direct use in functional screening assays. Knockout’ mice are bred in a laboratory with specific genes silenced or ‘knocked out’.

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Epigenetic Editing with CRISPR Might Be Easier Than We Thought

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The tool could also prove to be safer than conventional CRISPR-based gene therapies as it does not involve DNA editing, and thus would not cause potentially harmful off-target genomic changes. Genes can be switched on with a complementary tool called CRISPRon that has also been described in the paper.

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Using CRISPR to Edit the Epigenome Might Be Easier Than We Thought

XTalks

The tool could also prove to be safer than conventional CRISPR-based gene therapies as it does not involve DNA editing, and thus would not cause potentially harmful off-target genomic changes. Genes can be switched on with a complementary tool called CRISPRon that has also been described in the paper.

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The use of base editing in stem-cell based therapies

Drug Discovery World

Increasing interest in CRISPR-Cas gene editing systems over recent years has delivered innovative developments in precision genome engineering technologies, holding enormous potential for applications across the healthcare sector. Engineering antigen-specific primary human NK cells against HER-2 positive carcinomas.

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World RNA Day: What impact RNA it had on drug discovery?  

Drug Discovery World

Another potential clinical pathway is to use engineered exogenous circRNAs to produce therapeutic proteins within target cells. One approach to using circRNA as a therapeutic molecule is to target disease-associated endogenous circRNA and mitigate its activity through the use of an RNAi therapeutic.

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