{
  "id": 7778569,
  "title": "First evidence for TIGR-Tas activity in a photosynthetic eukaryote",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/first-evidence-for-tigr-tas-activity-in-a-photosynthetic-eukaryote",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-16T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.12.750307v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "TIGR--Tas systems are a recently described class of RNA-guided DNA-targeting systems whose activity has been demonstrated in bacterial and human cells, but not in photosynthetic eukaryotes. Here we tested TIGR--Tas in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Recombinant TaTas and ParTas assembled with in vitro-transcribed tigRNAs cleaved target DNA in a concentration-dependent manner, and…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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    "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."
}