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ReviewNature reviews. Drug discovery2025

CRISPR-based therapeutic genome editing for inherited blood disorders.

Sébastien Levesque, Daniel E Bauer

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Review in Nature reviews. Drug discovery, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  3. Pharmacological readthrough and base editing forMolecular therapy. Nucleic acids · 2026
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  14. Analyzing long-read CRISPR experiments with CRISPRLungo.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sébastien LevesqueDivision of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Daniel E BauerDivision of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. bauer@bloodgroup.tch.harvard.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-5076-7945

Funding

Structural Variation and Hematological TraitsR01HL165061 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Daniel Evan Bauer, NATHAN D PANKRATZ · 2023 to 2026
$3.1M
Computational tools for precision genome editingR01HG013618 · NHGRI · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Daniel Evan Bauer, Luca Pinello · 2024 to 2026
$2.3M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG013618NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL165061
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Therapeutic genome editing promises to transform medicine. Pivotal discoveries have provided a diverse and versatile set of tools to correct pathogenic mutations or produce protective alleles using CRISPR-based technologies. These innovative therapies are especially adaptable for blood and immune disorders, where clinical methods allow haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) to be mobilized, harvested, engineered ex vivo and transplanted back into a patient to permanently replace their blood system. This paradigm has been exemplified with the first US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved CRISPR-Cas9 therapy for sickle cell disease and β-thalassaemia, exa-cel (Casgevy). Although promising, efficient delivery of gene edits involves complicated ex vivo manipulation and toxic myeloablative conditioning. The quiescent and elusive nature of HSCs also brings associated challenges. In this Review, we explore the state-of-the-art genome editing technologies of nucleases, base editors and prime editors, which hold promise to address unmet clinical needs for patients with inherited haematological disorders. We highlight the progress made for several disorders and discuss the challenges that remain for ex vivo and in vivo targeting of HSCs for next-generation gene therapies.

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CRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingGenetic TherapyHematologic DiseasesAnemia, Sickle CellAnimalsHumans

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PMID40659814
PMCPMC13169521

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