Treating Muscular Dystrophy with CRISPR Gene Editing
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...high percentage of muscle cells throughout the body, especially stem cells
2. Remove any immunogenicity...nonsense-mediated decay. Although Nelson et al. observed only 2% genome editing in one experiment, they found the ...Science. 2015 Dec 31. doi:10.1126/science.aae0169
2. Long C, Amoasii L, Mireault AA, McAnally JR, Li H...persist over time, stem cell editing would be highly desirable. Should stem cell editing occur, the CRISPR...patient myoblasts; when injected into DMD mice, these cells expressed functional dystrophin.
Editing genes in...in vivo is of course much more difficult than in cell culture, but Ran et al. have shown that CRISPR and...be delivered to both cardiac and skeletal muscle cells, where precision editing of the dystrophin gene ...