Nature Biotechnology

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Biotechnology is 16. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Forum: Alexandrov and Le1450
Federation Bio: from single strains to a purely synthetic microbiome1024
People959
Forum: Optogenetics roundtable with Deisseroth and Gradinaru800
Multiplexed mapping of chromatin features at single-cell resolution623
First Rounders: Jay Keasling558
Synthetic GPCRs for controlling cellular responses498
Base editors483
Forum: CRISPR screening roundtable with Stegmaier and Doench424
People419
Biotech news from around the world415
Bilateral China–Brazil ties over agbiotech406
Bluebird’s CALD gene therapy poised for approval404
Biotech news from around the world377
Bat biotech takes flight371
Biotech news from around the world346
Diffusion model expands RoseTTAFold’s power344
Fungal architecture is a thing, and it’s eye-catching336
Engineered Cas13 variants with minimal collateral RNA targeting326
People320
Linking genetic variants to cellular function and disease299
Ultra-precision medicine295
Photys Therapeutics: customizing phosphorylation via molecular matchmaking281
First Rounders: Lita Nelsen281
The champions of drug development275
Putting CRISPR into African hands to future-proof crops265
Women build strength in numbers261
Synthetic biologics provide a path to target bHLH transcription factors260
Unlocking drug modes of action with multi-dimensional high-throughput metabolic profiling257
A neural network for long-term super-resolution imaging of live cells with reliable confidence quantification256
Increase vigilance against cyberattacks254
Patents benefit patients and patent reform would spur diagnostic and therapeutic development253
Biotech news from around the world232
Vector BioPharma: resurrecting adenoviral gene delivery230
Multiplex-GAM detects complex chromatin interactions229
Fluorescence microscopy resolution increases to near-atomic level229
Eight diseases for gene therapy accelerator228
People225
Wearable devices224
Decoding the building blocks of cellular processes from single-cell transcriptomics data217
Editor’s pick: Tenpoint Therapeutics217
Spanish tortillas go vegan216
HIV drug 100% protective214
A base editor modifies bacterial genes in the guts of living mice214
Personalized medicine is having its day212
Biotech news from around the world211
Protein design: the experts speak207
Radical solutions205
Big pharma craves slice of AI-based RNA drug discovery201
Monitoring protein proximity with fluorogens196
Nanopore sequencing190
Base editing marches on the clinic189
Detecting somatic mutations in single-cell data sets177
Precise intraoperative brain tumor classification176
Startups probe hidden viruses in the ‘dark genome’ to treat disease170
An improved organoid model of the human cerebellum170
Merck enlists trispecific killers168
Cancer Moonshot aims at liquid biopsies167
Single-cell multi-omics allows functional characterization of structural variants164
AI’s plastic recycling162
FDA okays first cardiac myosin inhibitor158
Biotech news from around the world157
Citizen chickpeas154
100,000 genomes — in Africa, for Africa152
Single-cell RNA-seq keeps cells alive152
Vision–language AI assistance in human pathology152
Biotech news from around the world151
People149
Has the PTAB made a difference in drug settlements and generic entry?148
In vivo CRISPR agent cuts HAE attacks 95%147
Supercharging T cell therapy with cancer mutations145
Single-molecule peptide sequencing on semiconductor chips144
Exploring tRNAs and their modifications and crosstalk using Nano-tRNAseq142
Around the world in a month141
Lentiviral vector cleared of causing blood cancer137
Five questions with Weixin Tang136
Editor’s pick: Switch Therapeutics136
Cellular shuttles put mislocalized proteins in their right place135
T cells135
TRGT-ing the dark genome to accurately characterize tandem repeats at scale133
An antigen discovery pipeline integrates multi-omics data and informs immunotherapy133
Uncovering the global RNA virome131
Government targets, end-of-year patenting rush and innovative performance in China130
Industry moves on 3Rs129
People128
Machine learning in drug discovery127
Organoids and organs on a chip127
Spatial characterization of single tumor cells by proteomics127
Denmark invests in mucosal vaccines126
Mining extinct proteomes for antimicrobial peptides125
Toward a safer and more secure US bioeconomy125
Glia-enriched cortical organoids implanted in mice capture astrocyte diversity124
Making space for spatial biology in the clinic122
Capturing and modeling cellular niches from dissociated single-cell and spatial data121
Video game unleashes millions of citizen scientists on microbiome research121
Sound healing and beyond119
CRISPR-free, strand-selective mitochondrial DNA base editing using a nickase115
AI for drug discovery is booming, but who owns the patents?114
Wireless microelectronic fibers to discover gut and brain pathways113
Chroma Medicine and Tune Therapeutics: Two companies take up epigenome editing112
Identification of antimicrobial peptides from the human gut microbiome using deep learning112
CRISPR therapies march into clinic, but genotoxicity concerns linger111
Club-goers take first bites of lab-made chicken111
Startup tackles oncogene-rich ecDNA111
The lysosomal degraders110
Inferring cell–cell communication at single-cell resolution110
RNA drugs lower lipoprotein(a) and genetically driven cholesterol110
Prime editing using CRISPR-Cas12a and circular RNAs in human cells108
Genotoxic effects of base and prime editing in human hematopoietic stem cells108
A spatial genome aligner for resolving chromatin architectures from multiplexed DNA FISH108
Unidirectional single-file transport of full-length proteins through a nanopore108
Real-time monitoring of tumor-homing bacteria and tumor cells in vivo using ultrasound108
Massively parallel phenotyping of coding variants in cancer with Perturb-seq107
Quantifying bias introduced by sample collection in relative and absolute microbiome measurements107
Single-cell m6A mapping in vivo using picoMeRIP–seq106
Survival of the fittest glia105
The digital and analog worlds of protein engineering105
Expanding access to CAR T cell therapies through local manufacturing104
Integration of spatial and single-cell data across modalities with weakly linked features104
High-efficiency transgene integration by homology-directed repair in human primary cells using DNA-PKcs inhibition104
Imaging glycosylated RNAs at the subcellular scale102
Predicting transcriptional outcomes of novel multigene perturbations with GEARS102
Author Correction: Efficient C•G-to-G•C base editors developed using CRISPRi screens, target-library analysis, and machine learning102
KARR-seq reveals cellular higher-order RNA structures and RNA–RNA interactions102
Identification of mobile genetic elements with geNomad102
The global patent landscape of artificial intelligence applications for cancer101
Do patent applications and Cooperative Research and Development Agreements between the National Cancer Institute and industry serve the public interest?101
Soil microbiome engineering for sustainability in a changing environment101
Supervised discovery of interpretable gene programs from single-cell data100
Activation of recombinases at specific DNA loci by zinc-finger domain insertions99
An optimized toolkit for prime editing98
Generation of locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons from human pluripotent stem cells97
Whole-body cellular mapping in mouse using standard IgG antibodies96
A new mass analyzer shakes up the proteomics field94
An oncolytic virus–T cell chimera for cancer immunotherapy94
The prevalence of drug patent term extensions in the United States, 2000–201894
Improving microbial phylogeny with citizen science within a mass-market video game93
Contracts and intellectual property rights in translational R&D: furthering safeguards in the public interest92
Designing proteins with language models92
Inferring gene regulatory networks from single-cell multiome data using atlas-scale external data91
Evolutionary gambit to defeat drug resistance in cancer90
One-step nanoscale expansion microscopy reveals individual protein shapes89
Engineered serum markers for non-invasive monitoring of gene expression in the brain88
Mapping multimodal phenotypes to perturbations in cells and tissue with CRISPRmap88
Near-cognate tRNAs increase the efficiency and precision of pseudouridine-mediated readthrough of premature termination codons87
Author Correction: Large-scale evaluation of the ability of RNA-binding proteins to activate exon inclusion86
Engineered CRISPR-Cas12a for higher-order combinatorial chromatin perturbations85
The rise of patient avatars in precision oncology84
Generative models for protein structures and sequences83
Publisher Correction: Multistate and functional protein design using RoseTTAFold sequence space diffusion82
Sparks of function by de novo protein design82
Author Correction: Quantifying bias introduced by sample collection in relative and absolute microbiome measurements82
Trans-nuclease activity of Cas9 activated by DNA or RNA target binding81
Long-term intravital subcellular imaging with confocal scanning light-field microscopy81
Improving the predictive power of mouse models81
Enhancing prime editing in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells by modulating nucleotide metabolism80
Chemical and topological design of multicapped mRNA and capped circular RNA to augment translation79
Rapid generation of long, chemically modified pegRNAs for prime editing79
A developmental route to hematopoietic stem cells79
Accessible training for academic clinicians and researchers to address the need for academic entrepreneurs79
After obesity drugs’ success, companies rush to preserve skeletal muscle78
The community of the DAO78
The next giant step for microbes77
First herpesvirus gene therapy77
Predicting disease variants using biodiversity and machine learning76
Dreaming ideal protein structures76
Multiplex de Bruijn graphs enable genome assembly from long, high-fidelity reads74
CRISPR-free base editors with enhanced activity and expanded targeting scope in mitochondrial and nuclear DNA74
Characterizing cellular heterogeneity in chromatin state with scCUT&Tag-pro74
Personalized phosphoproteomics identifies functional signaling74
Integrating innovation as a core objective in medical training73
A knowledge graph to interpret clinical proteomics data73
Author Correction: LAMP-Seq enables sensitive, multiplexed COVID-19 diagnostics using molecular barcoding72
A Python library for probabilistic analysis of single-cell omics data71
RNA delivery with a human virus-like particle71
Estimation of tumor cell total mRNA expression in 15 cancer types predicts disease progression71
European patent protection for medical uses of known products and drug repurposing71
Publisher Correction: Integrative spatial analysis of cell morphologies and transcriptional states with MUSE71
Identifying synergistic high-order 3D chromatin conformations from genome-scale nanopore concatemer sequencing70
Multi-omics single-cell data integration and regulatory inference with graph-linked embedding70
Scalable in situ single-cell profiling by electrophoretic capture of mRNA using EEL FISH70
Transplantation of a human liver following 3 days of ex situ normothermic preservation70
Automated reconstruction of whole-embryo cell lineages by learning from sparse annotations69
Helping others enhances graduate student wellness and mental health69
Bioengineered corneal tissue for minimally invasive vision restoration in advanced keratoconus in two clinical cohorts69
Fludarabine increases nuclease-free AAV- and CRISPR/Cas9-mediated homologous recombination in mice69
Author Correction: Multiscale and integrative single-cell Hi-C analysis with Higashi69
Enhanced cancer detection from cell-free DNA69
Variant to function mapping at single-cell resolution through network propagation68
A competitive precision CRISPR method to identify the fitness effects of transcription factor binding sites68
Systematic discovery of recombinases for efficient integration of large DNA sequences into the human genome68
A multiplex implantable microdevice assay identifies synergistic combinations of cancer immunotherapies and conventional drugs68
Mapping mRNA modifications for functional studies68
High-throughput continuous evolution of compact Cas9 variants targeting single-nucleotide-pyrimidine PAMs67
What the COVID-19 pandemic revealed about intellectual property66
Integrating medicine, engineering and business to educate early-stage researchers in cardiovascular device development66
Solid-phase capture and profiling of open chromatin by spatial ATAC65
Wireless, closed-loop, smart bandage with integrated sensors and stimulators for advanced wound care and accelerated healing65
Dynamic, adaptive sampling during nanopore sequencing using Bayesian experimental design65
A proteome-wide atlas of drug mechanism of action64
Novel recombinases for large DNA insertions64
Reflective multi-immersion microscope objectives inspired by the Schmidt telescope63
Large language models generate functional protein sequences across diverse families63
scChIX-seq infers dynamic relationships between histone modifications in single cells63
In vivo development of immune tissue in human intestinal organoids transplanted into humanized mice62
Drug licensing as evidence of evolution, diffusion and catch-up in East Asia62
Protein structure prediction with in-cell photo-crosslinking mass spectrometry and deep learning62
Spatial mapping of the total transcriptome by in situ polyadenylation62
gutSMASH predicts specialized primary metabolic pathways from the human gut microbiota62
Writing cellular history in protein chains62
Chem-map profiles drug binding to chromatin in cells61
Engineered live bacteria suppress Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in mouse lung and dissolve endotracheal-tube biofilms61
High-throughput retrieval of target sequences from complex clone libraries using CRISPRi60
Rapid-response manufacturing of adenovirus-vectored vaccines60
Efficient evolution of human antibodies from general protein language models59
Mapping the patent landscape of medical machine learning59
CRISPR-edited plants by grafting59
Efficient engineering of human and mouse primary cells using peptide-assisted genome editing59
Pangenome graph construction from genome alignments with Minigraph-Cactus59
A microneedle vaccine printer for thermostable COVID-19 mRNA vaccines59
Evaluating the analytical validity of circulating tumor DNA sequencing assays for precision oncology58
Democratizing knowledge representation with BioCypher58
Strand-selective base editing of human mitochondrial DNA using mitoBEs58
A technical approach to global plant genome editing regulation57
High-efficiency prime editing with optimized, paired pegRNAs in plants57
A unified haplotype-based method for accurate and comprehensive variant calling57
Ovarian tumor cells gain competitive advantage by actively reducing the cellular fitness of microenvironment cells57
Prediction of drug efficacy from transcriptional profiles with deep learning56
Highly-multiplexed volumetric mapping with Raman dye imaging and tissue clearing56
More than just content: building community in the graduate classroom56
Monitoring deep-tissue oxygenation with a millimeter-scale ultrasonic implant56
Wireless closed-loop optogenetics across the entire dorsoventral spinal cord in mice55
Deletion and replacement of long genomic sequences using prime editing55
Author Correction: An injectable bone marrow–like scaffold enhances T cell immunity after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation55
Negative innovation: when patents are bad for patients55
A small and highly sensitive red/far-red optogenetic switch for applications in mammals55
Ebola as a case study for the patent landscape of medical countermeasures for emerging infectious diseases55
Author Correction: Engineered pegRNAs improve prime editing efficiency54
Fast and accurate metagenotyping of the human gut microbiome with GT-Pro54
Droplet-based transcriptome profiling of individual synapses54
NINDS launches network to develop treatments for ultra-rare neurological diseases54
Single-cell immunology of SARS-CoV-2 infection54
Robust integration of multiple single-cell RNA sequencing datasets using a single reference space54
Improving combination drug trials using ‘definitive screening designs’53
DNA writing technologies moving toward synthetic genomes53
How to grow (almost) anything: a hybrid distance learning model for global laboratory-based synthetic biology education53
Transcriptome-wide profiling and quantification of N6-methyladenosine by enzyme-assisted adenosine deamination53
Framework for predicting alloreactivity in hematopoietic cell transplants53
People52
Virus-like elements52
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