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ReviewCell chemical biology2024

Precision epigenetic editing: Technological advances, enduring challenges, and therapeutic applications.

Goldie V Roth, Isabella R Gengaro, Lei S Qi

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Review in Cell chemical biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. 3D Genome Engineering Using CRISPR/dCas Systems.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  8. Epigenetic editing: from concept to clinic.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2026
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  11. Epigenome editing based treatment: Progresses and challenges.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026
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  17. Epigenetic networks coordinate DNA methylation across the genome.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Goldie V RothDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Isabella R GengaroDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; Sarafan ChEM-H, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
Lei S QiSarafan ChEM-H, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA; Chan Zuckerberg Biohub - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. Electronic address: slqi@stanford.edu.

Funding

Manipulating and Interrogating Spatial TranscriptomicsDP1NS137219 · NINDS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Lei Stanley Qi · 2023 to 2026
$4.3M
Graduate Training Program in BiotechnologyT32GM141819 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Eric Andrew Appel, Fan Yang · 2021 to 2026
$1.9M
High resolution dissection of oncogene enhancer networks via CRISPR screening and live-cell imaging.R01CA266470 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Lei Stanley Qi · 2022 to 2026
$1.9M
Probing relationships between DNA methylation and cellular senescence with high-throughput CRISPR-based epigenetic editingR21AG077193 · NIA · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI QI, LEI STANLEY · 2023 to 2024
$425k
Development of multi-color 3D super-localization LiveFISH and LiveFISH PAINT to investigate the chromatin dynamics at any genomic scaleR21HG013133 · NHGRI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI QI, LEI STANLEY · 2023 to 2023
$420k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA266470NHGRI NIH HHS R21 HG013133NIA NIH HHS R21 AG077193NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM141819NINDS NIH HHS DP1 NS137219
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The epigenome is a complex framework through which gene expression is precisely and flexibly modulated to incorporate heritable memory and responses to environmental stimuli. It governs diverse cellular processes, including cell fate, disease, and aging. The need to understand this system and precisely control gene expression outputs for therapeutic purposes has precipitated the development of a diverse set of epigenetic editing tools. Here, we review the existing toolbox for targeted epigenetic editing, technical considerations of the current technologies, and opportunities for future development. We describe applications of therapeutic epigenetic editing and their potential for treating disease, with a discussion of ongoing delivery challenges that impede certain clinical interventions, particularly in the brain. With simultaneous advancements in available engineering tools and appropriate delivery technologies, we predict that epigenetic editing will increasingly cement itself as a powerful approach for safely treating a wide range of disorders in all tissues of the body.

Indexed as

chromatin modificationschromatin reorganizationCRISPRdeliveryepigenetic diseaseepigenetic editingepigeneticsepigenome therapyneurological disease

Identifiers

PMID39137782
PMCPMC11799355

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