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Rashid Abdi Aman

King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyORCID 0000-0002-6549-4887Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Bioengineering· 2 Molecular Biology· 1

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Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:human· 2 Research Focus:variant calling· 2 Approach:deep learning· 1 Organism:plant (other)· 1 Research Focus:protein structure prediction· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Magdy M. MahfouziD· 3 shared Ahmed M. KazlakiD· 2 shared Ahmed Saleh· 2 shared Gundra Sivakrishna RaoiD· 2 shared Qiaochu WangiD· 2 shared Ahmed MahasiD· 1 shared Fatimah AljedaaniiD· 1 shared Haroon ButtiD· 1 shared

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Compact type II-D Cas9 nucleases for efficient and specific genome editing

Qiaochu Wang, Ahmed Saleh, Gundra Sivakrishna Rao, Ahmed M. Kazlak, Rashid Abdi Aman, Magdy M. Mahfouz

The paper identifies and characterizes compact Cas9d orthologs with high genome editing efficiency and specificity, suitable for AAV-based therapeutic applications.

bioRxiv · Aug 21, 2026 · PreprintBioengineering

Compact type II-C Cas9 nucleases with expanded PAM access and high fidelity for therapeutic genome editing

Qiaochu Wang, Gundra Sivakrishna Rao, Rashid Abdi Aman, Ahmed Saleh, Ahmed M. Kazlak, Maazallah Masood, Norhan Hassan, Magdy M. Mahfouz

The paper identifies and characterizes three compact type II-C Cas9 orthologs with improved PAM compatibility and high fidelity for genome editing in human cells.

bioRxiv · Aug 20, 2026 · PreprintBioengineering

RNA virus interference via CRISPR/Cas13a system in plants

Rashid Abdi Aman, Zahir Ali, Haroon Butt, Ahmed Mahas, Fatimah Aljedaani, Muhammad Zuhaib Khan, Shou‐Wei Ding, Magdy M. Mahfouz

This study uses CRISPR/Cas13a to interfere with an RNA virus in plants, showing effective targeting of viral RNA sequences.

Genome biology · Jan 4, 2018Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology