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ArticleScientific reports2025

Engineered microRNA scaffolds for potent gene silencing in vivo.

Giuseppe Militello, Alyssa Greig, Chongfeng Bi, Ana Vasileva, Maria I Zavodszky, Shih-Ching Lo, Edward Guilmette, Pete Clarner, Bin Liu, Guruharsha Bhat and 5 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Functions and mechanisms of miR-650 in human diseases.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Giuseppe MilitelloMirimus Inc., 760 Parkside Avenue, Suite 206, Brooklyn, NY, 11226, USA. peppe.militello@gmail.com.
Alyssa GreigMirimus Inc., 760 Parkside Avenue, Suite 206, Brooklyn, NY, 11226, USA.
Chongfeng BiMirimus Inc., 760 Parkside Avenue, Suite 206, Brooklyn, NY, 11226, USA.
Ana VasilevaMirimus Inc., 760 Parkside Avenue, Suite 206, Brooklyn, NY, 11226, USA.
Maria I ZavodszkyBiogen Inc., 225 Binney St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA.
Shih-Ching LoBiogen Inc., 225 Binney St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA.
Edward GuilmetteBiogen Inc., 225 Binney St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA.
Pete ClarnerBiogen Inc., 225 Binney St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA.
Bin LiuBiogen Inc., 225 Binney St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA.
Guruharsha BhatBiogen Inc., 225 Binney St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA.
Junghae SuhBiogen Inc., 225 Binney St, Cambridge, MA, 02142, USA.
Lukas DowWeill Cornell Medical College, 413 E 69th St (The Belfer Building), New York, NY, 10021, USA.
Johannes ZuberResearch Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Campus-Vienna-Biocentre 1, Vienna, 1030, Austria.
Christof FellmannCRISPR-X, CRISPR Therapeutics, 455 Mission Bay Boulevard South, San Francisco, CA, 94158, USA.
Prem K PremsrirutMirimus Inc., 760 Parkside Avenue, Suite 206, Brooklyn, NY, 11226, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA interference (RNAi) is emerging as a powerful strategy for therapeutic targeting of "undruggable" targets. However, efficacy of currently used siRNA-based therapies is often hindered by transient effects and limited modeling possibilities. Artificial microRNAs (amiRNAs or miRNA scaffolds) present a durable and precise approach to gene silencing, opening new avenues for developing long lasting targeted therapies. In this study, we engineered highly expressed primary miRNAs (pri-miRNAs) with sequence determinants known to enhance processing efficacy and precision. The resulting amiRNAs were extensively tested both in vitro and in vivo and proved to efficiently silence a target gene when virally delivered via adeno-associated virus (AAV) into mice brains. This study provides a set of novel amiRNAs with potential therapeutic application as well as a pipeline to generate and validate novel amiRNAs from endogenous pri-miRNAs.

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Gene SilencingGenetic EngineeringMicroRNAsRNA InterferenceAnimalsBrainDependovirusGenetic VectorsHumansMiceRNA, Small InterferingMicroRNAsRNA, Small Interfering

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PMID40596504
PMCPMC12218229

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