Also known as: chronic infections
Two studies identify protein recycling dysfunction and transcription factors ZSCAN20/JDP2 as drivers of T-cell exhaustion, with E3 ligases and gene deactivation offering reversal pathways. A third study finds TCF1 insufficient to revert terminally exhausted T cells.
Three new CRISPR-based therapies show promise for treating heart failure through mitochondrial enhancement, cystic fibrosis via lipid nanoparticle gene insertion, and elevated cholesterol with single-dose gene editing targeting ANGPTL3.
UCLA researchers developed lipid nanoparticle-based gene editing that inserts a complete CFTR gene into human airway cells, restoring up to 100% of normal channel function in cystic fibrosis laboratory models without viral vectors.
