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ReviewCurrent opinion in chemical biology2021

Harnessing the power of directed evolution to improve genome editing systems.

Qiwen Su, Mi Zhou, Cristina Cheng, Jia Niu

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Review in Current opinion in chemical biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Anti-CRISPR-mediated continuous directed evolution of CRISPR-Cas9 in human cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Qiwen SuDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, United States.
Mi ZhouDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, United States.
Cristina ChengDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, United States.
Jia NiuDepartment of Chemistry, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, United States. Electronic address: jia.niu@bc.edu.
Boston College · US

Funding

Development of Compact CRISPR Editors for Multiplexed Editing of Complex Gene NetworksDP2HG011027 · NHGRI · BOSTON COLLEGE · PI NIU, JIA · 2019 to 2020
$2.5M
NHGRI NIH HHS DP2 HG011027
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The recent development of genome editing systems, such as zinc-finger nucleases, transcription activator-like effectors, CRISPR-Cas nucleases, and base editors has enabled the unprecedented capability to engineer the genomes of living cells. The ever-increasing demand for genome editors with improved accuracy, activity, and functionality has stimulated significant efforts to further engineer the genome editing systems. Directed evolution represents a promising strategy to improve the existing genome editing systems and enable new editing functions. Here, we review recent representative strategies to harness the power of directed evolution to improve genome editing systems, which have led to state-of-the-art genome editors that have significant implications for diverse applications in both laboratories and clinics.

Indexed as

CRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingGenomeBase editorCRISPRDirected evolutionGenome editorsSynthetic biology

Identifiers

PMID33725650
PMCPMC8435539
OpenAlexW3138784442

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Registered trials

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