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ArticleNature communications2025

A high-fidelity CRISPR-Cas13 system improves abnormalities associated with C9ORF72-linked ALS/FTD.

Tristan X McCallister, Colin K W Lim, Mayuri Singh, Sijia Zhang, Najah S Ahsan, William M Terpstra, Alisha Y Xiong, M Alejandra Zeballos C, Jackson E Powell, Jenny Drnevich and 2 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. RNA therapeutics: current status and future directions.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
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  4. Treatment of Huntington's disease with a pan-HTT-targeting CRISPR nuclease.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026
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  6. Precise RNA targeting with CRISPR-Cas13d.Nature biotechnology · 2026
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  12. A Manual for Genome and Transcriptome Engineering.IEEE reviews in biomedical engineering · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Tristan X McCallisterDepartment of Bioengineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Colin K W LimDepartment of Bioengineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Mayuri SinghDepartment of Bioengineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Sijia ZhangDepartment of Bioengineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Najah S AhsanDepartment of Bioengineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
William M TerpstraDepartment of Bioengineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Alisha Y XiongDepartment of Bioengineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-3269-3081
M Alejandra Zeballos CDepartment of Bioengineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5194-2909
Jackson E PowellDepartment of Bioengineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Jenny DrnevichHigh-Performance Biological Computing, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1401-8311
Yifei KangHigh-Performance Biological Computing, Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.
Thomas GajDepartment of Bioengineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA. gaj@illinois.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6004-9664

Funding

Optimization of an in vivo base editing strategy to treat SOD1-linked ALSU01NS122102 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI Thomas Gaj, Pablo Perez-Pinera · 2022 to 2026
$5.0M
Development of Technologies for Efficient In Vivo Prime EditingR01GM141296 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI PEREZ-PINERA, PABLO, SONG, JUN S · 2021 to 2024
$2.1M
Tissue microenvironment (TIMe) training programT32EB019944 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI BHARGAVA, ROHIT, GASKINS, REX · 2016 to 2025
$1.9M
Development of a CRISPR-Cas13 Gene Therapy for SOD1-Linked ALSR01NS123556 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI Thomas Gaj · 2022 to 2026
$1.8M
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association (ALS Association) 20-IIP-516Muscular Dystrophy Association (Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc.) MDA602798NIBIB NIH HHS T32 EB019944NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM141296NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS123556NINDS NIH HHS U01 NS122102U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) 5R01GM141296U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) 1R01NS123556-01A1U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) 1U01NS122102-01A1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An abnormal expansion of a GGGGCC (G

Indexed as

Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisC9orf72 ProteinCRISPR-Cas SystemsFrontotemporal DementiaAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalDNA Repeat ExpansionHumansMiceMotor NeuronsC9orf72 ProteinC9orf72 protein, human

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PMID39779681
PMCPMC11711314

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