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ReviewNature reviews. Clinical oncology2026

CRISPR in clinical oncology: translational advances from molecular diagnostics to therapeutics.

Samuel Grigg, Carolyn Shembrey, Mohamed Fareh, Piers Blombery, Jacob E Corn, John F Seymour, Joshua M L Casan

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Review in Nature reviews. Clinical oncology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Samuel Grigg *Department of Clinical Haematology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Carolyn Shembrey *Institute of Molecular Health Sciences, Department of Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3175-8925
Mohamed FarehSir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Piers BlomberyDepartment of Clinical Haematology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Jacob E CornInstitute of Molecular Health Sciences, Department of Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7798-5309
John F SeymourDepartment of Clinical Haematology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2188-6835
Joshua M L CasanDepartment of Clinical Haematology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. joshua.casan@petermac.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4322-8561

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer care is increasingly driven by molecular classification, yet many key oncogenic drivers remain undruggable, and intrinsic or acquired resistance to treatment frequently limits durable clinical benefit. CRISPR-Cas technologies provide a modular, programmable platform to interrogate and directly manipulate cancer biology via sequence-specific targeting of DNA or RNA and have advanced from experimental tools to the early stages of clinical translation. In this Review, we outline how CRISPR-enabled functional genomics approaches can reveal unexpected cancer dependencies and resistance mechanisms. We discuss emerging applications of CRISPR-based diagnostics in oncology that convert precise nucleic acid sequence recognition into rapid mutation detection. We also discuss applications of CRISPR in therapeutic strategies ranging from ex vivo immune cell engineering to nascent in vivo interventions that directly target tumour-related sequences such as fusion junctions or single-nucleotide variants. Finally, we highlight technological and regulatory challenges, including effective delivery of the editing machinery to cells in vivo, safety and platform-level regulatory frameworks, that will determine the clinical utility of CRISPR-based diagnostics and therapies in oncology.

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Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsCRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingMedical OncologyNeoplasmsPathology, MolecularAnimalsGenetic TherapyHumansTranslational Research, Biomedical

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PMID42426280

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