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ReviewMolecular biotechnology2026

A Comprehensive Review on CRISPR-Based Screening and Its Applications.

Ali Saber Sichani, Mahmoud Hassani, Fatemeh Gila, Negin Shafieipour, Reza Dabbaghipour, Zahra Heidari, Mohsen Sisakht, Mohammad Hassani, Jafar Fallahi

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Review in Molecular biotechnology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Ali Saber SichaniDepartment of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
Mahmoud HassaniDepartment of Molecular Medicine, School of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Mahmoud.hassani@yahoo.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3142-8320
Fatemeh GilaDepartment of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Negin ShafieipourDepartment of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Reza DabbaghipourDepartment of Medical Genetics, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Zahra HeidariShahid Chamran Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Mohsen SisakhtDepartment of Molecular Medicine, School of Advanced Medical Sciences and Technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Mohammad HassaniDepartment of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Ayatollah Taleghani Hospital, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Jafar FallahiDepartment of Molecular Medicine, School of Advanced Medical Sciences and Technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. jafarf80@gmail.com.

Funding

Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 43016329
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

CRISPR-based tools have quickly moved from specialist techniques to routine instruments in biology and medicine, and they are now central to large-scale loss-of-function and perturbation screens. In this review, we focus on how pooled CRISPR screens are used to interrogate gene function in living cells, most often through cell fitness or simple selectable markers, and contrast this with arrayed formats that trade throughput for richer molecular readouts, such as transcriptome-wide changes. We bring together current strategies for library design, delivery, and selection and show how different Cas nucleases, including Cas9, Cas12, and Cas13, broaden the range of genome and transcriptome perturbations that can be assayed. We then discuss recent applications in drug response, viral infection, and cancer biology and consider how improvements in high-content technologies, data analysis, and emerging diagnostic uses are likely to shape the next generation of CRISPR-based screening studies.

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Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsCRISPR-Cas SystemsGene EditingAnimalsHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansArrayed screeningCRISPR/Cas9CRISPR screeningHigh-throughput sequencingPooled screening

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