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ReviewNature medicine2015

Therapeutic genome editing: prospects and challenges.

David Benjamin Turitz Cox, Randall Jeffrey Platt, Feng Zhang

Abstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Nature medicine, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 626 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
626citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
66.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

626 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 1,323 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The past, present, and future of artificial zinc finger proteins: design strategies and chemical and biological applications.Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2023
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  8. NongeneticACS nano · 2026
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  18. Gene-sized editing for the therapy of genetic diseases.Functional & integrative genomics · 2026
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566 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

David Benjamin Turitz Cox1] Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. [2] Department of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. [3] Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. [4] McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Randall Jeffrey Platt1] Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. [2] McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. [3] Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. [4] Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Feng Zhang1] Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. [2] McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. [3] Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. [4] Department of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Broad Institute · US

Funding

Medical Scientist Training ProgramT32GM007753 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI WALENSKY, LOREN DAVID · 1985 to 2021
$50.0M
Probing Neuropsychiatric Diseases Using Targeted Epigenome and Genome EngineeringDP1MH100706 · NIMH · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI ZHANG, FENG · 2012 to 2016
$4.3M
Genome-wide Light-inducible Tuning of Transcriptional Network DynamicR01NS073124 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI ARLOTTA, PAOLA, JOUNG, J. KEITH · 2010 to 2014
$3.3M
NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007753NIMH NIH HHS DP1 MH100706NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS073124
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advances in the development of genome editing technologies based on programmable nucleases have substantially improved our ability to make precise changes in the genomes of eukaryotic cells. Genome editing is already broadening our ability to elucidate the contribution of genetics to disease by facilitating the creation of more accurate cellular and animal models of pathological processes. A particularly tantalizing application of programmable nucleases is the potential to directly correct genetic mutations in affected tissues and cells to treat diseases that are refractory to traditional therapies. Here we discuss current progress toward developing programmable nuclease-based therapies as well as future prospects and challenges.

Indexed as

DeoxyribonucleasesEndodeoxyribonucleasesGenetic EngineeringGenetic TherapyGenomeHumansDeoxyribonucleasesEndodeoxyribonucleases

Identifiers

PMID25654603
PMCPMC4492683
OpenAlexW1996788258

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