{
  "id": 4832749,
  "title": "A pervasive RT–qPCR artifact inflates RNA knockdown by RNA-targeting CRISPR",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/a-pervasive-rt-qpcr-artifact-inflates-rna-knockdown-by-rna-targeting",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Nature Biotechnology",
    "slug": "nature-biotechnology",
    "url": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-026-03291-1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Nature Biotechnology, Published online: 01 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s41587-026-03291-1 A quantification artifact confounds CRISPR-mediated RNA knockdown.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}