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ReviewPathogens and global health2021

The CRISPR revolution and its potential impact on global health security.

Kyle E Watters, Jesse Kirkpatrick, Megan J Palmer, Gregory D Koblentz

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Review in Pathogens and global health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kyle E WattersDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6858-6632
Jesse KirkpatrickInstitute for Philosophy and Public Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.
Megan J PalmerDepartment of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USAs.ORCID 0000-0001-8310-2325
Gregory D KoblentzSchar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Global health security is constantly under threat from infectious diseases. Despite advances in biotechnology that have improved diagnosis and treatment of such diseases, delays in detecting outbreaks and the lack of countermeasures for some biological agents continue to pose severe challenges to global health security. In this review, we describe some of the challenges facing global health security and how genome editing technologies can help overcome them. We provide specific examples of how the genome-editing tool CRISPR is being used to develop new tools to characterize pathogenic agents, diagnose infectious disease, and develop vaccines and therapeutics to mitigate the effects of an outbreak. The article also discusses some of the challenges associated with genome-editing technologies and the efforts that scientists are undertaking to mitigate them. Overall, CRISPR and genome-editing technologies are poised to have a significant positive influence on global health security over the years to come.

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Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsCRISPR-Cas SystemsGlobal HealthGene EditingbiotechnologyCRISPRdiagnosticsgenome editingglobal health securityhealth

Identifiers

PMID33590814
PMCPMC8550201

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