Nature Biotechnology

Papers
(The median citation count of Nature Biotechnology is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Single-cell RNA-seq keeps cells alive3252
Fungal architecture is a thing, and it’s eye-catching2236
Fluorescence microscopy resolution increases to near-atomic level1740
Synthetic biologics provide a path to target bHLH transcription factors949
AI’s plastic recycling948
Author Correction: LAMP-Seq enables sensitive, multiplexed COVID-19 diagnostics using molecular barcoding816
People788
TRGT-ing the dark genome to accurately characterize tandem repeats at scale676
Denmark invests in mucosal vaccines645
Wireless microelectronic fibers to discover gut and brain pathways627
Overcoming unpredictability in biotech patents by tailored claiming aligned with genuine enablement600
Drug pipeline 1Q22 — a raft of new modalities … and clinical blowups555
Framework for predicting alloreactivity in hematopoietic cell transplants444
Bite-sized solutions434
An optimized toolkit for prime editing416
Design of optimized epigenetic regulators for durable gene silencing with application to PCSK9 in nonhuman primates413
People408
Orchestration of secondary metabolite production in Streptomyces species399
The lysosomal degraders395
Engineered serum markers for non-invasive monitoring of gene expression in the brain394
Cellular shuttles put mislocalized proteins in their right place384
Diffusion model expands RoseTTAFold’s power366
Integrating medicine, engineering and business to educate early-stage researchers in cardiovascular device development351
Dreaming ideal protein structures343
Cancer Moonshot aims at liquid biopsies324
A competitive precision CRISPR method to identify the fitness effects of transcription factor binding sites319
Author Correction: Simultaneous editing of three homoeoalleles in hexaploid bread wheat confers heritable resistance to powdery mildew317
Enhancing prime editing in hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells by modulating nucleotide metabolism309
Democratizing knowledge representation with BioCypher301
Droplet-based transcriptome profiling of individual synapses294
Author Correction: Precise base editing in rice, wheat and maize with a Cas9-cytidine deaminase fusion283
Automated reconstruction of whole-embryo cell lineages by learning from sparse annotations274
An oncolytic virus–T cell chimera for cancer immunotherapy274
Generative models for protein structures and sequences263
Chem-map profiles drug binding to chromatin in cells251
Biopharma dives into tumor-seeking radioactive drugs243
Reflective multi-immersion microscope objectives inspired by the Schmidt telescope240
Behind the graduate mental health crisis in science230
High-efficiency transgene integration by homology-directed repair in human primary cells using DNA-PKcs inhibition229
Programmable promoter editing for precise control of transgene expression218
Engineering innate immune cells for cancer immunotherapy217
In vivo development of immune tissue in human intestinal organoids transplanted into humanized mice214
The world’s first CRISPR therapy is approved: who will receive it?212
Safer non-viral DNA delivery using lipid nanoparticles loaded with endogenous anti-inflammatory lipids210
Variant to function mapping at single-cell resolution through network propagation200
Artificial intelligence-guided design of lipid nanoparticles for pulmonary gene therapy200
Predicting transcriptional outcomes of novel multigene perturbations with GEARS199
Systematic discovery of recombinases for efficient integration of large DNA sequences into the human genome198
Multi-omics single-cell data integration and regulatory inference with graph-linked embedding198
Single-cell nanobody-based profiles of multiple epigenetic modalities and chromatin velocity196
Dual SORT LNPs for multi-organ base editing196
AI predicts cancer relapse from slides193
Biotech news from around the world192
3Q22 — more malaise in the markets191
The need for need-finding in medical education190
Author Correction: The cost of drug patent expiration date errors189
People188
Biotech news from around the world188
Gains in early-onset dementia with progranulin open new paths for drug discovery185
HSV-1’s contribution as a vector for gene therapy182
Retraction Note: Rescue of the spinal muscular atrophy phenotype in a mouse model by early postnatal delivery of SMN181
Who will oversee the ethical limits of human embryo research?181
Slaughter-free meat hits the grocery shelf181
Delix Therapeutics : psychedelics without the trip178
Towards the non-invasive imaging of brain networks and functions at high resolution177
Computationally designed enzymes show potent catalytic activity174
Adrestia Therapeutics — Gene networks to the rescue172
Connecting research and clinical practice: training the next generation of translational scientists170
Orna Therapeutics: circular logic170
Artificial miRNA slows Huntington’s169
Assessing workforce needs for the emerging CAR-T cell therapy industry169
Hallucinating functional protein sequences169
Decoding gene regulation with CRISPR perturbations167
David Baltimore (1938–2025)167
Building synthetic chromosomes one yeast at a time: insights from Sc2.0167
Mapping the patent landscape of cancer diagnostics165
Prediction of peptide mass spectral libraries with machine learning163
Grand challenges in bioinformatics education and training162
Next-generation psychedelics: should new agents skip the trip?162
Live cell imaging of signaling networks using a conventional microscope161
Protection of cell therapeutics from antibody-mediated killing by CD64 overexpression161
Precise DNA cleavage using CRISPR-SpRYgests159
A language model beats alphafold2 on orphans159
Delivering 3 billion doses of Comirnaty in 2021157
Spatiotemporal multiplexed immunofluorescence imaging of living cells and tissues with bioorthogonal cycling of fluorescent probes157
Engineered phage with antibacterial CRISPR–Cas selectively reduce E. coli burden in mice156
FDA approves first MASH drug154
Mesenchymal thymic niche cells enable regeneration of the adult thymus and T cell immunity151
A strategy to load, rethread and read protein sequences through a nanopore150
Detection of mosaic and population-level structural variants with Sniffles2150
Drug pipeline 4Q22 — sticking around145
2022 – toughing out the trough145
Chemigenetic kinase biosensors illuminate cell signaling networks144
A circularly permuted CasRx platform for efficient, site-specific RNA editing143
Biotech news from around the world142
Forum: Boyden and Danzl141
Lab-made antibody stops malaria140
Genome-edited farm animals from haploid stem cells138
Are ecological processes that select beneficial traits in agricultural microbes nature’s intellectual property rights?138
Microbiome-friendly phages join the campaign for better antimicrobials131
Large-scale discovery of chromatin dysregulation induced by oncofusions and other protein-coding variants130
COVID vaccine IP waiver agreed128
Consternation follows Marks’ FDA departure128
Enzymatic synthesis of RNA oligonucleotides127
Engineering pattern recognition receptors facilitates plant resistance breeding127
Baby’s first genome126
RNA stability enhancers for durable base-modified mRNA therapeutics124
Precision RNA base editing with engineered and endogenous effectors121
Prediction of prime editing insertion efficiencies using sequence features and DNA repair determinants120
Tension-tuned receptors for synthetic mechanotransduction and intercellular force detection120
Data sharing in the age of deep learning119
Growth of biotech clusters over several decades through pioneering, variety and entrepreneurial science119
Rapid, scalable assessment of SARS-CoV-2 cellular immunity by whole-blood PCR118
How will generative AI disrupt data science in drug discovery?118
Control of mammalian gene expression by modulation of polyA signal cleavage at 5′ UTR118
Platform solutions for commercial challenges to expanding patient access and making gene editing sustainable116
Chronic nasal congestion gets new treatment116
The devolution of biosimilars regulations114
Improving non-viral knock-in with modified single-stranded DNAs and small molecules113
Editor’s pick: Red Queen Therapeutics111
A fully integrated wearable ultrasound system to monitor deep tissues in moving subjects110
Cell type inference in cell-free nucleic acid liquid biopsy110
Modular cytokine receptor-targeting chimeras for targeted degradation of cell surface and extracellular proteins109
Epicardioid single-cell genomics uncovers principles of human epicardium biology in heart development and disease108
Spatial host–microbiome sequencing reveals niches in the mouse gut108
Contamination source modeling with SCRuB improves cancer phenotype prediction from microbiome data107
CoSpar identifies early cell fate biases from single-cell transcriptomic and lineage information106
Genome engineering with Cas9 and AAV repair templates generates frequent concatemeric insertions of viral vectors105
Antivirals105
Base editors104
Publisher Correction: Treg engineers take aim at autoimmunity103
Sensitive detection of gene transfer in a microbial community103
Author Correction: Bioinstructive implantable scaffolds for rapid in vivo manufacture and release of CAR-T cells103
2024: research in review102
People102
Stem cells102
Ionis wins FDA nod for triglyceride-lowering rare disease drug101
Relieving patent-eligibility barriers in biotech with a preparation or treatment method100
An organoid model with all three pancreatic lineages resembles fetal pancreas100
Reply to: Methodological concerns and lack of evidence for single-synapse RNA-seq99
CRISPR beef cattle get FDA green light98
A genome-wide view of disordered proteins98
Thinking about a move from academia to industry? Look before you leap97
Senolytics under scrutiny in the quest to slow aging97
Author Correction: Precise, predictable multi-nucleotide deletions in rice and wheat using APOBEC–Cas996
Tracking gene order provides a new perspective on intraspecific evolution in microbiotas95
Next-generation patient models for colorectal cancer research95
Generation of accurate, expandable phylogenomic trees with uDance94
Five questions with César de la Fuente94
Septerna: making another run on GPCRs93
Children with rare genetic diseases get CRISPR Cures center93
TCR cell therapies vanquish solid tumors — finally92
Conformation-locking antibodies for the discovery and characterization of KRAS inhibitors92
Accurate somatic small variant discovery for multiple sequencing technologies with DeepSomatic92
Growth-coupled microbial biosynthesis of the animal pigment xanthommatin92
Author Correction: Engineering circular RNA for enhanced protein production92
The strength and importance of government-funded patents for approved drugs91
How will AI affect patent disclosures?90
Accelerated identification of disease-causing variants with ultra-rapid nanopore genome sequencing89
Spatial genomics of AAV vectors reveals mechanism of transcriptional crosstalk that enables targeted delivery of large genetic cargo89
AI-enhanced protein design makes proteins that have never existed89
Hypoimmune induced pluripotent stem cells survive long term in fully immunocompetent, allogeneic rhesus macaques87
Cross-species snakebite antivenom87
Genotoxins from gut bacteria86
Facile repurposing of peptide–MHC-restricted antibodies for cancer immunotherapy86
The GA4GH Phenopacket schema defines a computable representation of clinical data86
Spotlight on cancer immunotherapies86
Efficient prime editing in mouse brain, liver and heart with dual AAVs85
A community effort to optimize sequence-based deep learning models of gene regulation84
Intestinal mucosal barrier repair and immune regulation with an AI-developed gut-restricted PHD inhibitor84
High-precision cytosine base editors by evolving nucleic-acid-recognition hotspots in deaminase84
Systema: a framework for evaluating genetic perturbation response prediction beyond systematic variation84
High-throughput discovery of MHC class I- and II-restricted T cell epitopes using synthetic cellular circuits84
Human respiratory airway progenitors derived from pluripotent cells generate alveolar epithelial cells and model pulmonary fibrosis83
Precise integration of large DNA sequences in plant genomes using PrimeRoot editors83
Mapping medically relevant RNA isoform diversity in the aged human frontal cortex with deep long-read RNA-seq83
Discovery of drug–omics associations in type 2 diabetes with generative deep-learning models83
Multifunctional microelectronic fibers enable wireless modulation of gut and brain neural circuits82
Tuning plant phenotypes by precise, graded downregulation of gene expression82
3Q23 — VCs feed ‘older children’ as IPO markets stagnate81
Post-translational modifications reshape the antigenic landscape of the MHC I immunopeptidome in tumors81
Fashion’s microbial dyeing machines81
Measuring the impact of chromatin context on transcription factor binding affinities80
2H23 biotech job picture80
People80
Microfluidics79
Discovering the crucial function of long noncoding RNAs79
Base editor restores CD3δ-dependent SCID mutation79
Microbiomics79
The instant spray-on dress78
Bridge RNAs direct programmable DNA rearrangements78
Biotech patenting 202177
Startup grows egg proteins in potato fields77
Big pharma seduced by transcription factors again. What has changed?76
Embryonic stem cells across bird species76
Chikungunya vaccine approved76
Combining reference genomes into a pangenome graph improves accuracy and reduces bias76
Fighting fibrosis75
Using artificial intelligence to develop gene therapy for the lungs75
Redefining antibody patent protection using paratope mapping and CDR-scanning74
Eli Lilly in $650M pact to boost muscle73
A shifting market environment and strategies fueling innovation in prostate cancer treatment73
Resurrecting a miniature Cas9 ancestor for genome and epigenome editing73
Prime editing72
Gabriele et al. reply72
Uniform volumetric single-cell processing for organ-scale molecular phenotyping72
Starving tumors with fat71
Linking CRISPR–Cas9 double-strand break profiles to gene editing precision with BreakTag70
A germ-free humanized mouse model shows the contribution of resident microbiota to human-specific pathogen infection69
How to grow cement69
Fresh from the biotech pipeline: FDA approvals settle in 2024, but what next?69
A resource of RNA-binding protein motifs across eukaryotes reveals evolutionary dynamics and gene-regulatory function68
The reverse transcriptase domain of prime editors contributes to DNA repair in mammalian cells68
Bio-leather gears up to wow fashion industry67
Single-molecule live-cell RNA imaging with CRISPR–Csm67
Deep tissue multi-photon imaging using adaptive optics with direct focus sensing and shaping67
Make science disruptive again66
Curated variation benchmarks for challenging medically relevant autosomal genes66
Lipid nanoparticle-mediated mRNA delivery to CD34+ cells in rhesus monkeys66
Generation of a live attenuated influenza A vaccine by proteolysis targeting66
RNA interference in the era of nucleic acid therapeutics65
Wearable ultrasound for continuous deep-tissue monitoring65
Drag-and-drop genome insertion of large sequences without double-strand DNA cleavage using CRISPR-directed integrases65
Scalable single-cell RNA sequencing from full transcripts with Smart-seq3xpress65
Challenges for developing broad-based mucosal vaccines for respiratory viruses64
Evolution of an adenine base editor into a small, efficient cytosine base editor with low off-target activity64
De novo detection of somatic mutations in high-throughput single-cell profiling data sets63
Capturing the diversity of protein modifications on presented tumor antigens63
High-yield genome engineering in primary cells using a hybrid ssDNA repair template and small-molecule cocktails63
The challenges and promise of sweat sensing63
Ultra-fast label-free quantification and comprehensive proteome coverage with narrow-window data-independent acquisition63
Public biotech in 2021 — the numbers62
Biotech news from around the world62
A highly photostable and bright green fluorescent protein62
Second-quarter biotech job picture62
Visualizing protein nanostructures in intact brain61
Biotech news from around the world61
Forum: Locke and Sykes60
Biomedical imaging59
The long game of tenure58
First in vivo base editing lowers cholesterol58
A retrotransposon for site-specific gene transfer58
Wasp gut microbes yield beer with extra tang58
Fluorescence imaging of RNA and protein in deep tissue57
Ocean-grown bioplastics57
Italy tests first gene-edited vines for winemaking57
Radiopharmaceuticals57
MicroRNAs57
For hemophilia and thalassemia, a new era of ‘one-and-done’ gene therapies has arrived55
Insulin — the new battleground for drug pricing55
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