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The NIH Somatic Cell Genome Editing program.

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Saha, K; Sontheimer, EJ; Brooks, PJ; Dwinell, MR; Gersbach, CA; Liu, DR; Murray, SA; Tsai, SQ; Wilson, RC; Anderson, DG; Asokan, A; Bao, G ...
Published in: Nature
April 2021

The move from reading to writing the human genome offers new opportunities to improve human health. The United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) Somatic Cell Genome Editing (SCGE) Consortium aims to accelerate the development of safer and more-effective methods to edit the genomes of disease-relevant somatic cells in patients, even in tissues that are difficult to reach. Here we discuss the consortium's plans to develop and benchmark approaches to induce and measure genome modifications, and to define downstream functional consequences of genome editing within human cells. Central to this effort is a rigorous and innovative approach that requires validation of the technology through third-party testing in small and large animals. New genome editors, delivery technologies and methods for tracking edited cells in vivo, as well as newly developed animal models and human biological systems, will be assembled-along with validated datasets-into an SCGE Toolkit, which will be disseminated widely to the biomedical research community. We visualize this toolkit-and the knowledge generated by its applications-as a means to accelerate the clinical development of new therapies for a wide range of conditions.

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Nature

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1476-4687

Publication Date

April 2021

Volume

592

Issue

7853

Start / End Page

195 / 204

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
  • Humans
  • Goals
  • Genome, Human
  • Genetic Therapy
  • General Science & Technology
  • Gene Editing
  • Cells
  • Animals
 

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Saha, K., Sontheimer, E. J., Brooks, P. J., Dwinell, M. R., Gersbach, C. A., Liu, D. R., … SCGE Consortium. (2021). The NIH Somatic Cell Genome Editing program. Nature, 592(7853), 195–204. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03191-1
Saha, Krishanu, Erik J. Sontheimer, P. J. Brooks, Melinda R. Dwinell, Charles A. Gersbach, David R. Liu, Stephen A. Murray, et al. “The NIH Somatic Cell Genome Editing program.Nature 592, no. 7853 (April 2021): 195–204. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03191-1.
Saha K, Sontheimer EJ, Brooks PJ, Dwinell MR, Gersbach CA, Liu DR, et al. The NIH Somatic Cell Genome Editing program. Nature. 2021 Apr;592(7853):195–204.
Saha, Krishanu, et al. “The NIH Somatic Cell Genome Editing program.Nature, vol. 592, no. 7853, Apr. 2021, pp. 195–204. Pubmed, doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03191-1.
Saha K, Sontheimer EJ, Brooks PJ, Dwinell MR, Gersbach CA, Liu DR, Murray SA, Tsai SQ, Wilson RC, Anderson DG, Asokan A, Banfield JF, Bankiewicz KS, Bao G, Bulte JWM, Bursac N, Campbell JM, Carlson DF, Chaikof EL, Chen Z-Y, Cheng RH, Clark KJ, Curiel DT, Dahlman JE, Deverman BE, Dickinson ME, Doudna JA, Ekker SC, Emborg ME, Feng G, Freedman BS, Gamm DM, Gao G, Ghiran IC, Glazer PM, Gong S, Heaney JD, Hennebold JD, Hinson JT, Khvorova A, Kiani S, Lagor WR, Lam KS, Leong KW, Levine JE, Lewis JA, Lutz CM, Ly DH, Maragh S, McCray PB, McDevitt TC, Mirochnitchenko O, Morizane R, Murthy N, Prather RS, Ronald JA, Roy S, Sabbisetti V, Saltzman WM, Santangelo PJ, Segal DJ, Shimoyama M, Skala MC, Tarantal AF, Tilton JC, Truskey GA, Vandsburger M, Watts JK, Wells KD, Wolfe SA, Xu Q, Xue W, Yi G, Zhou J, SCGE Consortium. The NIH Somatic Cell Genome Editing program. Nature. 2021 Apr;592(7853):195–204.
Journal cover image

Published In

Nature

DOI

EISSN

1476-4687

Publication Date

April 2021

Volume

592

Issue

7853

Start / End Page

195 / 204

Location

England

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
  • Humans
  • Goals
  • Genome, Human
  • Genetic Therapy
  • General Science & Technology
  • Gene Editing
  • Cells
  • Animals