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ReviewBioMed research international2019

Era of Genomic Medicine: A Narrative Review on CRISPR Technology as a Potential Therapeutic Tool for Human Diseases.

Odatha W Kotagama, Chanika D Jayasinghe, Thelma Abeysinghe

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Review in BioMed research international, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
22citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

22 citing papers in PubMed, 59 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Advances in CRISPR therapeutics.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2023
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  16. Cas13d: A New Molecular Scissor for Transcriptome Engineering.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022
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  17. Viral Vectors for theFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2022
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  19. Therapeutic promise of engineered nonsense suppressor tRNAs.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. RNA · 2021
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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.

Odatha W KotagamaDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, The Open University of Sri Lanka, Nawala, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.
Chanika D JayasingheDepartment of Zoology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, The Open University of Sri Lanka, Nawala, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2204-8967
Thelma AbeysingheDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, The Open University of Sri Lanka, Nawala, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2454-5104
Open University of Sri Lanka · LK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) provides acquired immunity in microorganisms against exogenous DNA that may hinder the survival of the organism. Pioneering work by Doudna and Charpentier in 2012 resulted in the creation of the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing tool on the basis of this concept. The aim of this was to create a rapid, efficient, and versatile genome-editing tool to facilitate genetic manipulation. The mechanism relies on two components: the RNA guide which acts as a sentinel and a Cas protein complex which functions as a highly precise molecular knife. The guide RNA can be modified to match a DNA sequence of interest in the cell and accordingly be used to rectify mutations that may otherwise cause disease. Within a few years following the development of the CRISPR/Cas9 tool, its usage has become ubiquitous. Its influence extends into many fields of biological sciences from biotechnology and biochemistry to molecular biology and biomedical sciences. The following review aims at shedding some light on to the applications of the CRISPR/Cas9 tool in the field of biomedical sciences, particularly gene therapy. An insight with relation to a few of the many diseases that are being tackled with the aid of the CRISPR/Cas9 mechanism and the trends, successes, and challenges of this application as a gene therapy are discussed in this review.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiotechnologyClustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsCRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingGenomeGenomicsHumansRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas Systems

Identifiers

PMID31687377
PMCPMC6800964
OpenAlexW2979317771

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