Nature Biotechnology

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Biotechnology is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Writing cellular history in protein chains1365
Forum: Alexandrov and Le879
Federation Bio: from single strains to a purely synthetic microbiome801
The prevalence of drug patent term extensions in the United States, 2000–2018653
People580
Forum: Optogenetics roundtable with Deisseroth and Gradinaru572
Multiplexed mapping of chromatin features at single-cell resolution518
First Rounders: Jay Keasling438
Synthetic GPCRs for controlling cellular responses434
Base editors403
Forum: CRISPR screening roundtable with Stegmaier and Doench400
People374
Biotech news from around the world360
Bilateral China–Brazil ties over agbiotech349
Protein structure prediction with in-cell photo-crosslinking mass spectrometry and deep learning333
Droplet-based transcriptome profiling of individual synapses328
Expanding access to CAR T cell therapies through local manufacturing308
Characterizing cellular heterogeneity in chromatin state with scCUT&Tag-pro307
Transplantation of a human liver following 3 days of ex situ normothermic preservation306
Bluebird’s CALD gene therapy poised for approval293
Predicting transcriptional outcomes of novel multigene perturbations with GEARS292
Biotech news from around the world290
Automated reconstruction of whole-embryo cell lineages by learning from sparse annotations275
Bat biotech takes flight271
Biotech news from around the world256
Diffusion model expands RoseTTAFold’s power248
Fungal architecture is a thing, and it’s eye-catching244
Engineered Cas13 variants with minimal collateral RNA targeting243
People238
Ultra-precision medicine236
Linking genetic variants to cellular function and disease236
Predicting disease variants using biodiversity and machine learning234
First Rounders: Lita Nelsen225
Photys Therapeutics: customizing phosphorylation via molecular matchmaking225
The champions of drug development222
Putting CRISPR into African hands to future-proof crops221
Women build strength in numbers219
Wireless closed-loop optogenetics across the entire dorsoventral spinal cord in mice215
Dreaming ideal protein structures215
Scalable in situ single-cell profiling by electrophoretic capture of mRNA using EEL FISH214
Synthetic biologics provide a path to target bHLH transcription factors212
Patents benefit patients and patent reform would spur diagnostic and therapeutic development209
Increase vigilance against cyberattacks209
Biotech news from around the world205
Vector BioPharma: resurrecting adenoviral gene delivery200
Multiplex-GAM detects complex chromatin interactions192
Fluorescence microscopy resolution increases to near-atomic level185
Eight diseases for gene therapy accelerator181
People179
Do patent applications and Cooperative Research and Development Agreements between the National Cancer Institute and industry serve the public interest?178
Editor’s pick: Tenpoint Therapeutics176
Wearable devices176
Decoding the building blocks of cellular processes from single-cell transcriptomics data174
Supervised discovery of interpretable gene programs from single-cell data168
Biotech news from around the world166
Single-cell m6A mapping in vivo using picoMeRIP–seq165
Protein design: the experts speak158
Survival of the fittest glia158
Radical solutions157
Big pharma craves slice of AI-based RNA drug discovery151
Monitoring protein proximity with fluorogens151
Novel recombinases for large DNA insertions150
Nanopore sequencing148
Sparks of function by de novo protein design147
Base editing marches on the clinic147
Chemical and topological design of multicapped mRNA and capped circular RNA to augment translation145
Merck enlists trispecific killers142
An improved organoid model of the human cerebellum142
The digital and analog worlds of protein engineering142
Mapping mRNA modifications for functional studies140
Dendritic cell revival139
Cancer Moonshot aims at liquid biopsies137
Single-cell multi-omics allows functional characterization of structural variants136
AI’s plastic recycling134
Evolutionary gambit to defeat drug resistance in cancer133
FDA okays first cardiac myosin inhibitor133
Biotech news from around the world132
Citizen chickpeas131
Vision–language AI assistance in human pathology130
Single-cell RNA-seq keeps cells alive125
100,000 genomes — in Africa, for Africa124
Biotech news from around the world124
People120
Has the PTAB made a difference in drug settlements and generic entry?119
In vivo CRISPR agent cuts HAE attacks 95%119
Single-molecule peptide sequencing on semiconductor chips118
Supercharging T cell therapy with cancer mutations118
Exploring tRNAs and their modifications and crosstalk using Nano-tRNAseq117
Around the world in a month117
Improving combination drug trials using ‘definitive screening designs’117
Lentiviral vector cleared of causing blood cancer116
High-throughput retrieval of target sequences from complex clone libraries using CRISPRi116
Editor’s pick: Switch Therapeutics113
Five questions with Weixin Tang113
T cells112
Cellular shuttles put mislocalized proteins in their right place110
Accessible training for academic clinicians and researchers to address the need for academic entrepreneurs109
An antigen discovery pipeline integrates multi-omics data and informs immunotherapy108
Uncovering the global RNA virome108
One-step nanoscale expansion microscopy reveals individual protein shapes108
TRGT-ing the dark genome to accurately characterize tandem repeats at scale108
Government targets, end-of-year patenting rush and innovative performance in China107
Integrating medicine, engineering and business to educate early-stage researchers in cardiovascular device development106
Industry moves on 3Rs105
People104
Organoids and organs on a chip104
Maintaining ‘standards’ for biosimilar monoclonal antibodies103
Biological activity-based modeling identifies antiviral leads against SARS-CoV-2103
Spatial characterization of single tumor cells by proteomics103
Denmark invests in mucosal vaccines102
Mining extinct proteomes for antimicrobial peptides101
Contracts and intellectual property rights in translational R&D: furthering safeguards in the public interest101
Precise intraoperative brain tumor classification100
Detecting somatic mutations in single-cell data sets100
Startups probe hidden viruses in the ‘dark genome’ to treat disease99
A bacterial protease depletes c-MYC and increases survival in mouse models of bladder and colon cancer97
CRISPR-free, strand-selective mitochondrial DNA base editing using a nickase95
Capturing and modeling cellular niches from dissociated single-cell and spatial data95
Wireless microelectronic fibers to discover gut and brain pathways94
AI for drug discovery is booming, but who owns the patents?94
Identification of antimicrobial peptides from the human gut microbiome using deep learning94
Chroma Medicine and Tune Therapeutics: Two companies take up epigenome editing93
CRISPR-edited plants by grafting93
Fludarabine increases nuclease-free AAV- and CRISPR/Cas9-mediated homologous recombination in mice93
CRISPR therapies march into clinic, but genotoxicity concerns linger92
Club-goers take first bites of lab-made chicken91
Startup tackles oncogene-rich ecDNA90
RNA drugs lower lipoprotein(a) and genetically driven cholesterol89
NIS-Seq enables cell-type-agnostic optical perturbation screening89
Inferring cell–cell communication at single-cell resolution89
CRISPR-StAR enables high-resolution genetic screening in complex in vivo models88
Deletion and replacement of long genomic sequences using prime editing87
Super-resolution RNA imaging using a rhodamine-binding aptamer with fast exchange kinetics86
The lysosomal degraders86
Variant to function mapping at single-cell resolution through network propagation86
Robust decomposition of cell type mixtures in spatial transcriptomics86
Reflective multi-immersion microscope objectives inspired by the Schmidt telescope85
Real-time monitoring of tumor-homing bacteria and tumor cells in vivo using ultrasound85
Imaging glycosylated RNAs at the subcellular scale85
The community of the DAO84
After obesity drugs’ success, companies rush to preserve skeletal muscle83
First herpesvirus gene therapy82
A competitive precision CRISPR method to identify the fitness effects of transcription factor binding sites82
The next giant step for microbes82
Drug startups coalesce around condensates81
Whole-body cellular mapping in mouse using standard IgG antibodies81
CRISPR-free base editors with enhanced activity and expanded targeting scope in mitochondrial and nuclear DNA80
Generation of locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons from human pluripotent stem cells80
Evaluating the analytical validity of circulating tumor DNA sequencing assays for precision oncology78
Fast and accurate metagenotyping of the human gut microbiome with GT-Pro77
A developmental route to hematopoietic stem cells76
A proteome-wide atlas of drug mechanism of action74
Improving the predictive power of mouse models73
Trans-nuclease activity of Cas9 activated by DNA or RNA target binding73
Spanish tortillas go vegan72
HIV drug 100% protective72
A base editor modifies bacterial genes in the guts of living mice72
Engineered CRISPR-Cas12a for higher-order combinatorial chromatin perturbations70
Personalized medicine is having its day70
Mapping the patent landscape of medical machine learning70
The rise of patient avatars in precision oncology70
Framework for predicting alloreactivity in hematopoietic cell transplants70
DNA writing technologies moving toward synthetic genomes69
People69
Virus-like elements69
Behind the graduate mental health crisis in science68
A multiplex implantable microdevice assay identifies synergistic combinations of cancer immunotherapies and conventional drugs68
Recoded gene circuits for multiplexed genetic code expansion67
Strand-selective base editing of human mitochondrial DNA using mitoBEs67
European patent protection for medical uses of known products and drug repurposing66
Generation of programmable splicing factors using RNA-binding proteins that activate exon inclusion66
Rapid-response manufacturing of adenovirus-vectored vaccines66
Long-term intravital subcellular imaging with confocal scanning light-field microscopy65
Genentech, Sangamo ink Alzheimer’s deal65
High-efficiency prime editing with optimized, paired pegRNAs in plants65
People65
Solid-phase capture and profiling of open chromatin by spatial ATAC65
Engineered serum markers for non-invasive monitoring of gene expression in the brain64
Chem-map profiles drug binding to chromatin in cells64
Large language models generate functional protein sequences across diverse families64
Wireless, closed-loop, smart bandage with integrated sensors and stimulators for advanced wound care and accelerated healing63
High-throughput continuous evolution of compact Cas9 variants targeting single-nucleotide-pyrimidine PAMs63
Bioengineered corneal tissue for minimally invasive vision restoration in advanced keratoconus in two clinical cohorts63
A microneedle vaccine printer for thermostable COVID-19 mRNA vaccines62
Unprecedented blood biomarker enables ALS drug approval61
A knowledge graph to interpret clinical proteomics data61
Genotoxic effects of base and prime editing in human hematopoietic stem cells61
The global patent landscape of artificial intelligence applications for cancer60
gutSMASH predicts specialized primary metabolic pathways from the human gut microbiota60
Systematic discovery of recombinases for efficient integration of large DNA sequences into the human genome60
The world’s first CRISPR therapy is approved: who will receive it?60
Enhanced cancer detection from cell-free DNA60
A unified haplotype-based method for accurate and comprehensive variant calling59
From air to your plate: tech startups making food from atmospheric CO259
Transcriptome-wide profiling and quantification of N6-methyladenosine by enzyme-assisted adenosine deamination59
Spatial mapping of the total transcriptome by in situ polyadenylation59
scChIX-seq infers dynamic relationships between histone modifications in single cells58
Designing proteins with language models58
Highly-multiplexed volumetric mapping with Raman dye imaging and tissue clearing58
NINDS launches network to develop treatments for ultra-rare neurological diseases58
Machine learning in drug discovery57
Dynamic, adaptive sampling during nanopore sequencing using Bayesian experimental design57
High-efficiency transgene integration by homology-directed repair in human primary cells using DNA-PKcs inhibition57
Efficient engineering of human and mouse primary cells using peptide-assisted genome editing57
Multiplex de Bruijn graphs enable genome assembly from long, high-fidelity reads56
What the COVID-19 pandemic revealed about intellectual property56
African coronavirus surveillance network provides early warning for world56
Democratizing knowledge representation with BioCypher56
Efficient evolution of human antibodies from general protein language models56
Single-cell immunology of SARS-CoV-2 infection56
Multi-omics single-cell data integration and regulatory inference with graph-linked embedding55
Personalized phosphoproteomics identifies functional signaling55
Engineered live bacteria suppress Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in mouse lung and dissolve endotracheal-tube biofilms55
Pangenome graph construction from genome alignments with Minigraph-Cactus55
Identifying synergistic high-order 3D chromatin conformations from genome-scale nanopore concatemer sequencing55
A small and highly sensitive red/far-red optogenetic switch for applications in mammals55
Robust integration of multiple single-cell RNA sequencing datasets using a single reference space54
Estimation of tumor cell total mRNA expression in 15 cancer types predicts disease progression54
Development of compact transcriptional effectors using high-throughput measurements in diverse contexts53
Overcoming unpredictability in biotech patents by tailored claiming aligned with genuine enablement53
Inferring gene regulatory networks from single-cell multiome data using atlas-scale external data53
Author Correction: Efficient C•G-to-G•C base editors developed using CRISPRi screens, target-library analysis, and machine learning52
Identification of mobile genetic elements with geNomad52
Publisher Correction: Multistate and functional protein design using RoseTTAFold sequence space diffusion52
Enhancing prime editing in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells by modulating nucleotide metabolism52
An optimized toolkit for prime editing52
Author Correction: Large-scale evaluation of the ability of RNA-binding proteins to activate exon inclusion52
Soil microbiome engineering for sustainability in a changing environment52
Author Correction: LAMP-Seq enables sensitive, multiplexed COVID-19 diagnostics using molecular barcoding51
Publisher Correction: Drug hunters uncloak the non-coding ‘hidden’ genome51
Publisher Correction: Light-activated genetic therapy to treat blindness enters clinic50
Quantifying bias introduced by sample collection in relative and absolute microbiome measurements50
An update on Cuban biotech49
Publisher Correction: Integrative spatial analysis of cell morphologies and transcriptional states with MUSE49
Ovarian tumor cells gain competitive advantage by actively reducing the cellular fitness of microenvironment cells49
Author Correction: Engineered pegRNAs improve prime editing efficiency49
A technical approach to global plant genome editing regulation49
Author Correction: Multiscale and integrative single-cell Hi-C analysis with Higashi49
Rapid generation of long, chemically modified pegRNAs for prime editing48
Massively parallel phenotyping of coding variants in cancer with Perturb-seq47
Light-activated genetic therapy to treat blindness enters clinic47
Prediction of drug efficacy from transcriptional profiles with deep learning47
Author Correction: An injectable bone marrow–like scaffold enhances T cell immunity after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation47
Generative models for protein structures and sequences47
Mapping multimodal phenotypes to perturbations in cells and tissue with CRISPRmap47
Author Correction: Quantifying bias introduced by sample collection in relative and absolute microbiome measurements47
In vivo development of immune tissue in human intestinal organoids transplanted into humanized mice47
Unidirectional single-file transport of full-length proteins through a nanopore46
COVID-19 long haulers46
A spatial genome aligner for resolving chromatin architectures from multiplexed DNA FISH46
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