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Adeno-Associated Virus-Mediated Delivery of CRISPR for Cardiac Gene Editing in Mice
Published on: August 2, 2018
Cas13-Mediated RNA Base Editing for the Treatment of Hereditary Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Qun Hu1, Jiajia Lin2, Haodong Cui1,3
1Zhongshan Institute for Drug Discovery, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (Q.H., H.C., X.Z., S.W., M.D., B.W., T.L., X.G., Q.H., Y.L., S.L., H.Y., H.-B.-L., G.L.).
Circulation
|May 18, 2026
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