New Gene Editing Research Hopes to Eliminate Genetically Related Male Infertility

2019 ◽  
Vol 179 (12) ◽  
pp. 2325-2326
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Binyou Liao ◽  
Lei Cheng ◽  
Yujie Zhou ◽  
Yangyang Shi ◽  
Xingchen Ye ◽  
...  

Abstract Genome editing technology develop fast in recent years. The traditional gene-editing methods, including homologous recombination, zinc finger endonuclease, and transcription activator-like effector nuclease and so on, which have greatly promoted the research of genetics and molecular biology, have gradually showed their limitations such as low efficiency, high error rate, and complex design. In 2012,a new gene-editing technology, the CRISPR/Cas9 system, was setup based on the research of the immune responses to viruses from archaea and bacteria. Due to its advantages of high target efficiency, simple primer design, and wide application, CRISPR/Cas9 system, whose developers are awared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry this year, has become the dominant genomic editing technology in global academia and some pharmaceuticals. Here we briefly introduce the CRISPR/Cas system and its main applications in yeast, filamentous fungi and macrofungi, including single nucleotide, polygene and polyploid editing, yeast chromosome construction, yeast genome and yeast library construction, CRISPRa/CRISPRi-mediated, CRISPR platform of non-traditional yeast and regulation of metabolic pathway, to highlight the possible applications on fungal infection treatment and to promote the transformation and application of the CRISPR/Cas system in fungi.


2020 ◽  
pp. 347-367
Author(s):  
Douglas T. Carrell ◽  
Jingtao Guo ◽  
Kenneth I. Aston

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Hartman ◽  
Wilson Horner ◽  
Christopher Jackson ◽  
Emma Kovak ◽  
Vetri Velan

Feeding a growing world population and adapting agricultural production to a changing climate is a significant challenge that can be mitigated through the use of new gene-editing technologies in crops. However, current regulatory processes are overly burdensome and confusing, limit scientific innovation, and unduly hinder the widespread production of genetically engineered crops. To address these shortcomings, we propose the consolidation of federal regulatory communication into the United States Department of Agriculture and a unified and detailed web platform for commercial approval applications.


Author(s):  
Radhika A. Vaishnav

It is not uncommon to be curious about the recent hype surrounding the new gene editing player, Cas9, which recognizes and holds into place DNA segments known as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR). Together, they are known as CRISPR-Cas9 or simply “CRISPR” for brevity. The binding of Cas9 causes the CRISPR sequences to become available for editing.


F1000Research ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ilyas ◽  
Asif Mir ◽  
Stephanie Efthymiou ◽  
Henry Houlden

Intellectual disability (ID) is a neurodevelopmental condition affecting 1–3% of the world’s population. Genetic factors play a key role causing the congenital limitations in intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior. The heterogeneity of ID makes it more challenging for genetic and clinical diagnosis, but the advent of large-scale genome sequencing projects in a trio approach has proven very effective. However, many variants are still difficult to interpret. A combined approach of next-generation sequencing and functional, electrophysiological, and bioinformatics analysis has identified new ways to understand the causes of ID and help to interpret novel ID-causing genes. This approach offers new targets for ID therapy and increases the efficiency of ID diagnosis. The most recent functional advancements and new gene editing techniques involving the use of CRISPR–Cas9 allow for targeted editing of DNA in in vitro and more effective mammalian and human tissue-derived disease models. The expansion of genomic analysis of ID patients in diverse and ancient populations can reveal rare novel disease-causing genes.


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