Nature Biotechnology

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Biotechnology is 17. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Single-cell RNA-seq keeps cells alive3001
Fungal architecture is a thing, and it’s eye-catching2148
Fluorescence microscopy resolution increases to near-atomic level1652
Synthetic biologics provide a path to target bHLH transcription factors913
AI’s plastic recycling890
Author Correction: LAMP-Seq enables sensitive, multiplexed COVID-19 diagnostics using molecular barcoding775
People761
TRGT-ing the dark genome to accurately characterize tandem repeats at scale644
Denmark invests in mucosal vaccines625
Wireless microelectronic fibers to discover gut and brain pathways599
Overcoming unpredictability in biotech patents by tailored claiming aligned with genuine enablement568
Drug pipeline 1Q22 — a raft of new modalities … and clinical blowups509
Framework for predicting alloreactivity in hematopoietic cell transplants448
Bite-sized solutions429
An optimized toolkit for prime editing419
Design of optimized epigenetic regulators for durable gene silencing with application to PCSK9 in nonhuman primates400
Programmable promoter editing for precise control of transgene expression394
Author Correction: Simultaneous editing of three homoeoalleles in hexaploid bread wheat confers heritable resistance to powdery mildew389
People385
Orchestration of secondary metabolite production in Streptomyces species383
Cellular shuttles put mislocalized proteins in their right place372
Diffusion model expands RoseTTAFold’s power365
Integrating medicine, engineering and business to educate early-stage researchers in cardiovascular device development352
Democratizing knowledge representation with BioCypher347
Dreaming ideal protein structures327
Variant to function mapping at single-cell resolution through network propagation312
Engineered serum markers for non-invasive monitoring of gene expression in the brain308
Automated reconstruction of whole-embryo cell lineages by learning from sparse annotations303
Cancer Moonshot aims at liquid biopsies293
A competitive precision CRISPR method to identify the fitness effects of transcription factor binding sites291
Generative models for protein structures and sequences277
Safer non-viral DNA delivery using lipid nanoparticles loaded with endogenous anti-inflammatory lipids266
Droplet-based transcriptome profiling of individual synapses261
Author Correction: Precise base editing in rice, wheat and maize with a Cas9-cytidine deaminase fusion259
An oncolytic virus–T cell chimera for cancer immunotherapy257
Chem-map profiles drug binding to chromatin in cells246
High-efficiency transgene integration by homology-directed repair in human primary cells using DNA-PKcs inhibition228
The lysosomal degraders224
Biopharma dives into tumor-seeking radioactive drugs222
Dual SORT LNPs for multi-organ base editing221
The world’s first CRISPR therapy is approved: who will receive it?211
Enhancing prime editing in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells by modulating nucleotide metabolism208
Systematic discovery of recombinases for efficient integration of large DNA sequences into the human genome207
Reflective multi-immersion microscope objectives inspired by the Schmidt telescope207
Behind the graduate mental health crisis in science206
In vivo development of immune tissue in human intestinal organoids transplanted into humanized mice199
Engineering innate immune cells for cancer immunotherapy193
Predicting transcriptional outcomes of novel multigene perturbations with GEARS191
Artificial intelligence-guided design of lipid nanoparticles for pulmonary gene therapy190
Multi-omics single-cell data integration and regulatory inference with graph-linked embedding188
Live cell imaging of signaling networks using a conventional microscope186
AI predicts cancer relapse from slides186
Single-cell nanobody-based profiles of multiple epigenetic modalities and chromatin velocity186
Biotech news from around the world185
The need for need-finding in medical education183
3Q22 — more malaise in the markets183
Author Correction: The cost of drug patent expiration date errors181
Biotech news from around the world178
People176
Gains in early-onset dementia with progranulin open new paths for drug discovery175
HSV-1’s contribution as a vector for gene therapy174
Who will oversee the ethical limits of human embryo research?174
Retraction Note: Rescue of the spinal muscular atrophy phenotype in a mouse model by early postnatal delivery of SMN172
Slaughter-free meat hits the grocery shelf171
Cancer diagnostics171
Delix Therapeutics : psychedelics without the trip170
Towards the non-invasive imaging of brain networks and functions at high resolution169
Precise DNA cleavage using CRISPR-SpRYgests169
Orna Therapeutics: circular logic168
Computationally designed enzymes show potent catalytic activity167
Adrestia Therapeutics — Gene networks to the rescue167
Decoding gene regulation with CRISPR perturbations166
Hallucinating functional protein sequences162
Next-generation psychedelics: should new agents skip the trip?161
FDA approves first MASH drug159
Protection of cell therapeutics from antibody-mediated killing by CD64 overexpression158
Connecting research and clinical practice: training the next generation of translational scientists158
Artificial miRNA slows Huntington’s157
Mesenchymal thymic niche cells enable regeneration of the adult thymus and T cell immunity157
Assessing workforce needs for the emerging CAR-T cell therapy industry156
Grand challenges in bioinformatics education and training155
A language model beats alphafold2 on orphans155
Delivering 3 billion doses of Comirnaty in 2021155
Engineered phage with antibacterial CRISPR–Cas selectively reduce E. coli burden in mice154
Spatiotemporal multiplexed immunofluorescence imaging of living cells and tissues with bioorthogonal cycling of fluorescent probes152
Prediction of peptide mass spectral libraries with machine learning152
Detection of mosaic and population-level structural variants with Sniffles2151
A strategy to load, rethread and read protein sequences through a nanopore150
2022 – toughing out the trough149
Drug pipeline 4Q22 — sticking around148
A circularly permuted CasRx platform for efficient, site-specific RNA editing146
Chemigenetic kinase biosensors illuminate cell signaling networks146
Biotech news from around the world144
100,000 whole-genome sequences’ diagnostic bonus144
Forum: Boyden and Danzl141
Lab-made antibody stops malaria140
Growth of biotech clusters over several decades through pioneering, variety and entrepreneurial science139
Are ecological processes that select beneficial traits in agricultural microbes nature’s intellectual property rights?138
Genome-edited farm animals from haploid stem cells137
Moderna feud with NIH over COVID vaccine135
COVID vaccine IP waiver agreed135
Consternation follows Marks’ FDA departure130
Engineering pattern recognition receptors facilitates plant resistance breeding128
Enzymatic synthesis of RNA oligonucleotides127
Platform solutions for commercial challenges to expanding patient access and making gene editing sustainable127
Rapid, scalable assessment of SARS-CoV-2 cellular immunity by whole-blood PCR125
Microbiome-friendly phages join the campaign for better antimicrobials125
Epicardioid single-cell genomics uncovers principles of human epicardium biology in heart development and disease124
Precision RNA base editing with engineered and endogenous effectors121
Tension-tuned receptors for synthetic mechanotransduction and intercellular force detection117
Contamination source modeling with SCRuB improves cancer phenotype prediction from microbiome data117
Baby’s first genome115
RNA stability enhancers for durable base-modified mRNA therapeutics114
Cell type inference in cell-free nucleic acid liquid biopsy114
Prediction of prime editing insertion efficiencies using sequence features and DNA repair determinants113
CoSpar identifies early cell fate biases from single-cell transcriptomic and lineage information113
Spatial host–microbiome sequencing reveals niches in the mouse gut112
Chronic nasal congestion gets new treatment111
Data sharing in the age of deep learning111
Improving non-viral knock-in with modified single-stranded DNAs and small molecules109
The devolution of biosimilars regulations109
Large-scale discovery of chromatin dysregulation induced by oncofusions and other protein-coding variants108
Control of mammalian gene expression by modulation of polyA signal cleavage at 5′ UTR107
A fully integrated wearable ultrasound system to monitor deep tissues in moving subjects106
Editor’s pick: Red Queen Therapeutics106
How will generative AI disrupt data science in drug discovery?106
Genome engineering with Cas9 and AAV repair templates generates frequent concatemeric insertions of viral vectors106
Modular cytokine receptor-targeting chimeras for targeted degradation of cell surface and extracellular proteins105
Antivirals103
Publisher Correction: Treg engineers take aim at autoimmunity102
Base editors102
Author Correction: Bioinstructive implantable scaffolds for rapid in vivo manufacture and release of CAR-T cells102
Forum: Drug delivery roundtable with Langer and Whitehead100
2024: research in review100
Sensitive detection of gene transfer in a microbial community100
An organoid model with all three pancreatic lineages resembles fetal pancreas99
Stem cells99
Ionis wins FDA nod for triglyceride-lowering rare disease drug99
People99
Relieving patent-eligibility barriers in biotech with a preparation or treatment method98
A genome-wide view of disordered proteins97
Reply to: Methodological concerns and lack of evidence for single-synapse RNA-seq97
CRISPR beef cattle get FDA green light95
Thinking about a move from academia to industry? Look before you leap94
Author Correction: Precise, predictable multi-nucleotide deletions in rice and wheat using APOBEC–Cas994
Spotlight on cancer immunotherapies94
Senolytics under scrutiny in the quest to slow aging94
High-throughput discovery of MHC class I- and II-restricted T cell epitopes using synthetic cellular circuits93
Next-generation patient models for colorectal cancer research93
Hypoimmune induced pluripotent stem cells survive long term in fully immunocompetent, allogeneic rhesus macaques93
Tracking gene order provides a new perspective on intraspecific evolution in microbiotas93
AI-enhanced protein design makes proteins that have never existed92
Mapping medically relevant RNA isoform diversity in the aged human frontal cortex with deep long-read RNA-seq92
The strength and importance of government-funded patents for approved drugs92
The GA4GH Phenopacket schema defines a computable representation of clinical data92
Post-translational modifications reshape the antigenic landscape of the MHC I immunopeptidome in tumors91
Multifunctional microelectronic fibers enable wireless modulation of gut and brain neural circuits90
Generation of accurate, expandable phylogenomic trees with uDance89
Children with rare genetic diseases get CRISPR Cures center88
Five questions with César de la Fuente88
Septerna: making another run on GPCRs88
Accurate somatic small variant discovery for multiple sequencing technologies with DeepSomatic87
Author Correction: Engineering circular RNA for enhanced protein production87
TCR cell therapies vanquish solid tumors — finally86
Genotoxins from gut bacteria86
Accelerated identification of disease-causing variants with ultra-rapid nanopore genome sequencing85
Spatial genomics of AAV vectors reveals mechanism of transcriptional crosstalk that enables targeted delivery of large genetic cargo83
Systema: a framework for evaluating genetic perturbation response prediction beyond systematic variation83
Human respiratory airway progenitors derived from pluripotent cells generate alveolar epithelial cells and model pulmonary fibrosis83
Growth-coupled microbial biosynthesis of the animal pigment xanthommatin83
A community effort to optimize sequence-based deep learning models of gene regulation83
How will AI affect patent disclosures?83
Conformation-locking antibodies for the discovery and characterization of KRAS inhibitors83
Intestinal mucosal barrier repair and immune regulation with an AI-developed gut-restricted PHD inhibitor82
High-precision cytosine base editors by evolving nucleic-acid-recognition hotspots in deaminase82
Tuning plant phenotypes by precise, graded downregulation of gene expression82
Precise integration of large DNA sequences in plant genomes using PrimeRoot editors81
Efficient prime editing in mouse brain, liver and heart with dual AAVs81
Facile repurposing of peptide–MHC-restricted antibodies for cancer immunotherapy81
Discovery of drug–omics associations in type 2 diabetes with generative deep-learning models81
3Q23 — VCs feed ‘older children’ as IPO markets stagnate80
Starving tumors with fat80
Fashion’s microbial dyeing machines80
Measuring the impact of chromatin context on transcription factor binding affinities80
People80
2H23 biotech job picture79
Biotech news from around the world79
Clarifying US regulations on xenotransplantation78
Microfluidics78
Base editor restores CD3δ-dependent SCID mutation78
Microbiomics77
Discovering the crucial function of long noncoding RNAs77
Publisher Correction: Top 20 translational researchers of 202076
The instant spray-on dress76
Bridge RNAs direct programmable DNA rearrangements76
Biotech patenting 202175
Combining reference genomes into a pangenome graph improves accuracy and reduces bias75
Startup grows egg proteins in potato fields75
Big pharma seduced by transcription factors again. What has changed?74
Embryonic stem cells across bird species74
Using artificial intelligence to develop gene therapy for the lungs73
Chikungunya vaccine approved73
Lipid nanoparticle-mediated mRNA delivery to CD34+ cells in rhesus monkeys73
Linking CRISPR–Cas9 double-strand break profiles to gene editing precision with BreakTag72
Make science disruptive again72
Combination therapy patents: a new front in evergreening72
Eli Lilly in $650M pact to boost muscle70
The DxConnect Virtual Biobank connects diagnostic researchers to clinical samples70
Capturing the diversity of protein modifications on presented tumor antigens69
Resurrecting a miniature Cas9 ancestor for genome and epigenome editing69
Deep tissue multi-photon imaging using adaptive optics with direct focus sensing and shaping68
A resource of RNA-binding protein motifs across eukaryotes reveals evolutionary dynamics and gene-regulatory function68
A shifting market environment and strategies fueling innovation in prostate cancer treatment68
How to grow cement67
Prime editing67
Fresh from the biotech pipeline: FDA approvals settle in 2024, but what next?67
The reverse transcriptase domain of prime editors contributes to DNA repair in mammalian cells67
Bio-leather gears up to wow fashion industry66
Fighting fibrosis65
Wearable ultrasound for continuous deep-tissue monitoring65
A germ-free humanized mouse model shows the contribution of resident microbiota to human-specific pathogen infection65
Curated variation benchmarks for challenging medically relevant autosomal genes65
De novo detection of somatic mutations in high-throughput single-cell profiling data sets64
Redefining antibody patent protection using paratope mapping and CDR-scanning63
Uniform volumetric single-cell processing for organ-scale molecular phenotyping63
Scalable single-cell RNA sequencing from full transcripts with Smart-seq3xpress62
Challenges for developing broad-based mucosal vaccines for respiratory viruses62
High-yield genome engineering in primary cells using a hybrid ssDNA repair template and small-molecule cocktails62
RNA interference in the era of nucleic acid therapeutics62
Ultra-fast label-free quantification and comprehensive proteome coverage with narrow-window data-independent acquisition62
Single-molecule live-cell RNA imaging with CRISPR–Csm62
Evolution of an adenine base editor into a small, efficient cytosine base editor with low off-target activity61
A highly photostable and bright green fluorescent protein61
Generation of a live attenuated influenza A vaccine by proteolysis targeting61
Drag-and-drop genome insertion of large sequences without double-strand DNA cleavage using CRISPR-directed integrases60
The challenges and promise of sweat sensing60
Second-quarter biotech job picture59
Public biotech in 2021 — the numbers59
Biotech news from around the world58
Biomedical imaging57
Visualizing protein nanostructures in intact brain57
Forum: Locke and Sykes57
First in vivo base editing lowers cholesterol57
Biotech news from around the world57
Radiopharmaceuticals56
The long game of tenure56
Durable epigenetic silencing with a TALE-based editor56
A retrotransposon for site-specific gene transfer56
Ocean-grown bioplastics56
Wasp gut microbes yield beer with extra tang56
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