The invention provides novel personalized therapies, kits, transmittable forms of information and methods for use in treating subjects having TMPRSS2:ERG positive prostate cancer, which we show is amenable to therapeutic treatment with a PRMT5 inhibitor. Kits, methods of screening for candidate PRMT5 inhibitors, and associated methods of treatment are also provided.

Provided, as a technique for binding a nucleic acid chain and a nucleic acid chain by a natural structure or an analogous structure thereto, is a non-enzymatic nucleic acid chain binding method, which is a method for binding a nucleic acid chain and a nucleic acid chain not via an enzymatic reaction, including a step of reacting a nucleic acid chain having a phosphorothioate group and a nucleic acid chain having a hydroxyl group or amino group in the presence of an electrophile.

Expression vectors, viral particles and therapeutic methods of using such constructs to improve the visual function of a patient suffering from diseases of the eye, resulting from failure to produce a specific protein in the eye, or the production of a non-functional protein in the eye, particularly Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA) and CEP290-related LCA.

The present invention is directed to methods and compositions comprising novel CRISPR polypeptides and polynucleotides for site-specific cleavage and nicking of nucleic acids, transcriptional control and genome editing.

The invention relates generally to a composition and method for increasing the frequency, amount, or presence of red blood cells in peripheral blood. In one embodiment, the invention comprises the inhibition of, or genetic modification of the genes encoding, one or more scavenger receptors. In one aspect, the invention relates to treatments of anemia.

CRISPR/CAS-related compositions and methods for treatment of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) are disclosed.

Described herein are methods and vectors for rational, multiplexed manipulation of chromosomes within open reading frames (e.g., in protein libraries) or any segment of a chromosome in a cell or population of cells, in which various CRISPR systems are used.

Methods and products related to genome editing using the CRISPR/Cas9 system to introduce an A673T substitution into an APP gene, such as guide RNAs and recombinant proteins, are described for decreasing APP levels produced by a cell, and use for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease and/or age-related cognitive decline in a cell from a subject in need thereof.

The present invention relates to methods for treating prostate cancer patients. It is based, at least in part, on the discovery that approximately 90% of men carrying at least one of the following fusion genes: TRMT11-GRIK2, SLC45A2-AMACR, MTOR-TP53BP1, LRRC59-FLJ60017, TMEM135-CCDC67 and CCNH-C5orf30 experienced prostate cancer recurrence, metastases and/or prostate cancer-specific death after radical prostatectomy (each examples of “progressive prostate cancer”), while these outcomes occurred in only 36% of men not carrying any of these fusion genes. It is also based, at least in part, on the discovery that a genome editing technique that specifically targets a fusion gene can induce cell death in a cancer cell that carries the fusion gene.

The disclosure relates to gene expression regulatory sequences, specifically to the promoter of a U6 polymerase III gene and fragments thereof and their use in promoting the expression of one or more heterologous nucleic acid fragments in plants. The invention further discloses compositions, polynucleotide constructs, transformed host cells, mutated plants, transgenic plants and seeds containing the recombinant construct with the promoter, and methods for preparing and using the same.