Nature Biotechnology

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Biotechnology is 18. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Forum: Alexandrov and Le1579
Federation Bio: from single strains to a purely synthetic microbiome1321
Forum: Optogenetics roundtable with Deisseroth and Gradinaru1046
Multiplexed mapping of chromatin features at single-cell resolution926
First Rounders: Jay Keasling677
Unlocking drug modes of action with multi-dimensional high-throughput metabolic profiling603
Toward a safer and more secure US bioeconomy537
Glia-enriched cortical organoids implanted in mice capture astrocyte diversity531
Making space for spatial biology in the clinic488
Video game unleashes millions of citizen scientists on microbiome research465
Synthetic GPCRs for controlling cellular responses454
Base editors449
Safer non-viral DNA delivery using lipid nanoparticles loaded with endogenous anti-inflammatory lipids440
Forum: CRISPR screening roundtable with Stegmaier and Doench411
People391
Biotech news from around the world378
Bilateral China–Brazil ties over agbiotech374
Bluebird’s CALD gene therapy poised for approval350
Improving the safety of lipid nanoparticle-based DNA delivery for extended gene expression347
Biotech news from around the world333
An oncolytic virus–T cell chimera for cancer immunotherapy329
Variant to function mapping at single-cell resolution through network propagation311
Bat biotech takes flight310
Biotech news from around the world309
Diffusion model expands RoseTTAFold’s power301
Fungal architecture is a thing, and it’s eye-catching287
Engineered Cas13 variants with minimal collateral RNA targeting286
People286
Linking genetic variants to cellular function and disease278
Ultra-precision medicine272
First Rounders: Lita Nelsen269
Photys Therapeutics: customizing phosphorylation via molecular matchmaking269
The champions of drug development261
Biotech news from around the world254
Women build strength in numbers254
Synthetic biologics provide a path to target bHLH transcription factors250
A neural network for long-term super-resolution imaging of live cells with reliable confidence quantification244
Increase vigilance against cyberattacks241
Spatial characterization of single tumor cells by proteomics241
Patents benefit patients and patent reform would spur diagnostic and therapeutic development240
Biotech news from around the world239
Vector BioPharma: resurrecting adenoviral gene delivery239
Multiplex-GAM detects complex chromatin interactions233
Fluorescence microscopy resolution increases to near-atomic level228
Eight diseases for gene therapy accelerator226
People224
Wearable devices214
Editor’s pick: Tenpoint Therapeutics214
Decoding the building blocks of cellular processes from single-cell transcriptomics data208
Spanish tortillas go vegan204
A base editor modifies bacterial genes in the guts of living mice194
HIV drug 100% protective193
Radical solutions188
Big pharma craves slice of AI-based RNA drug discovery185
Monitoring protein proximity with fluorogens182
Nanopore sequencing181
Detecting somatic mutations in single-cell data sets179
Precise intraoperative brain tumor classification177
Startups probe hidden viruses in the ‘dark genome’ to treat disease170
An improved organoid model of the human cerebellum165
Cancer Moonshot aims at liquid biopsies164
Merck enlists trispecific killers164
Single-cell multi-omics allows functional characterization of structural variants161
AI’s plastic recycling160
FDA okays first cardiac myosin inhibitor159
Biotech news from around the world158
Citizen chickpeas156
Vision–language AI assistance in human pathology154
Single-cell RNA-seq keeps cells alive154
Biotech news from around the world152
100,000 genomes — in Africa, for Africa152
People151
Has the PTAB made a difference in drug settlements and generic entry?150
In vivo CRISPR agent cuts HAE attacks 95%150
Supercharging T cell therapy with cancer mutations149
Single-molecule peptide sequencing on semiconductor chips145
Around the world in a month144
Exploring tRNAs and their modifications and crosstalk using Nano-tRNAseq144
Five questions with Weixin Tang142
Lentiviral vector cleared of causing blood cancer142
Editor’s pick: Switch Therapeutics142
T cells141
Cellular shuttles put mislocalized proteins in their right place140
TRGT-ing the dark genome to accurately characterize tandem repeats at scale139
An antigen discovery pipeline integrates multi-omics data and informs immunotherapy139
Uncovering the global RNA virome137
Government targets, end-of-year patenting rush and innovative performance in China136
Industry moves on 3Rs135
People133
Organoids and organs on a chip132
Personalized phosphoproteomics identifies functional signaling129
Denmark invests in mucosal vaccines128
Mining extinct proteomes for antimicrobial peptides127
Capturing and modeling cellular niches from dissociated single-cell and spatial data126
Generation of programmable splicing factors using RNA-binding proteins that activate exon inclusion124
Sound healing and beyond124
People123
Wireless microelectronic fibers to discover gut and brain pathways122
Genentech, Sangamo ink Alzheimer’s deal122
CRISPR therapies march into clinic, but genotoxicity concerns linger121
Chroma Medicine and Tune Therapeutics: Two companies take up epigenome editing121
Identification of antimicrobial peptides from the human gut microbiome using deep learning121
KARR-seq reveals cellular higher-order RNA structures and RNA–RNA interactions119
Inferring cell–cell communication at single-cell resolution119
Engineered CRISPR-Cas12a for higher-order combinatorial chromatin perturbations119
Startup tackles oncogene-rich ecDNA119
The lysosomal degraders118
Bite-sized solutions118
Real-time monitoring of tumor-homing bacteria and tumor cells in vivo using ultrasound117
scChIX-seq infers dynamic relationships between histone modifications in single cells116
Writing cellular history in protein chains115
Drug licensing as evidence of evolution, diffusion and catch-up in East Asia114
High-throughput retrieval of target sequences from complex clone libraries using CRISPRi113
Rapid-response manufacturing of adenovirus-vectored vaccines113
Mapping the patent landscape of medical machine learning113
The rise of patient avatars in precision oncology112
Enhanced cancer detection from cell-free DNA109
Improving the predictive power of mouse models109
Scalable in situ single-cell profiling by electrophoretic capture of mRNA using EEL FISH109
Predicting disease variants using biodiversity and machine learning109
Author Correction: Multiscale and integrative single-cell Hi-C analysis with Higashi108
Fludarabine increases nuclease-free AAV- and CRISPR/Cas9-mediated homologous recombination in mice108
Mapping mRNA modifications for functional studies107
Integrating medicine, engineering and business to educate early-stage researchers in cardiovascular device development105
What the COVID-19 pandemic revealed about intellectual property105
Novel recombinases for large DNA insertions105
The community of the DAO103
Reflective multi-immersion microscope objectives inspired by the Schmidt telescope103
The next giant step for microbes102
First herpesvirus gene therapy102
After obesity drugs’ success, companies rush to preserve skeletal muscle102
gutSMASH predicts specialized primary metabolic pathways from the human gut microbiota101
Improving combination drug trials using ‘definitive screening designs’101
Survival of the fittest glia100
The digital and analog worlds of protein engineering100
The global patent landscape of artificial intelligence applications for cancer98
Author Correction: Efficient C•G-to-G•C base editors developed using CRISPRi screens, target-library analysis, and machine learning98
Do patent applications and Cooperative Research and Development Agreements between the National Cancer Institute and industry serve the public interest?97
An optimized toolkit for prime editing96
Generation of locus coeruleus norepinephrine neurons from human pluripotent stem cells94
The prevalence of drug patent term extensions in the United States, 2000–201894
A new mass analyzer shakes up the proteomics field93
Improving microbial phylogeny with citizen science within a mass-market video game91
Contracts and intellectual property rights in translational R&D: furthering safeguards in the public interest91
Engineered serum markers for non-invasive monitoring of gene expression in the brain90
Evolutionary gambit to defeat drug resistance in cancer90
Author Correction: Large-scale evaluation of the ability of RNA-binding proteins to activate exon inclusion90
Long-term intravital subcellular imaging with confocal scanning light-field microscopy89
Author Correction: Quantifying bias introduced by sample collection in relative and absolute microbiome measurements88
A developmental route to hematopoietic stem cells88
Accessible training for academic clinicians and researchers to address the need for academic entrepreneurs87
Rapid generation of long, chemically modified pegRNAs for prime editing87
Behind the graduate mental health crisis in science87
NIS-Seq enables cell-type-agnostic optical perturbation screening86
An update on Cuban biotech85
CRISPR-StAR enables high-resolution genetic screening in complex in vivo models85
Evaluating the analytical validity of circulating tumor DNA sequencing assays for precision oncology84
Ovarian tumor cells gain competitive advantage by actively reducing the cellular fitness of microenvironment cells84
More than just content: building community in the graduate classroom82
NINDS launches network to develop treatments for ultra-rare neurological diseases82
Fast and accurate metagenotyping of the human gut microbiome with GT-Pro82
Dreaming ideal protein structures82
A technical approach to global plant genome editing regulation82
Author Correction: An injectable bone marrow–like scaffold enhances T cell immunity after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation82
Multiplex de Bruijn graphs enable genome assembly from long, high-fidelity reads81
Author Correction: Engineered pegRNAs improve prime editing efficiency81
European patent protection for medical uses of known products and drug repurposing80
Author Correction: LAMP-Seq enables sensitive, multiplexed COVID-19 diagnostics using molecular barcoding80
Integrating innovation as a core objective in medical training80
Publisher Correction: Integrative spatial analysis of cell morphologies and transcriptional states with MUSE79
RNA delivery with a human virus-like particle79
Identifying synergistic high-order 3D chromatin conformations from genome-scale nanopore concatemer sequencing78
Framework for predicting alloreactivity in hematopoietic cell transplants78
Virus-like elements76
People76
DNA writing technologies moving toward synthetic genomes76
African coronavirus surveillance network provides early warning for world75
Recoded gene circuits for multiplexed genetic code expansion75
Publisher Correction: Drug hunters uncloak the non-coding ‘hidden’ genome75
Machine learning in drug discovery75
Overcoming unpredictability in biotech patents by tailored claiming aligned with genuine enablement75
From air to your plate: tech startups making food from atmospheric CO275
Diabetes cell therapies take evasive action74
COVID-19 long haulers74
Drug hunters uncloak the non-coding ‘hidden’ genome74
AI drug discovery booms in China73
People73
2Q21—a slowing of the pace72
Biotech news from around the world72
Nature Biotechnology’s academic spinouts 202071
Monkeypox response relies on three vaccine suppliers71
Drug pipeline 1Q21—the old and the new70
People70
Drug pipeline 1Q23 — Everything everywhere all over the place69
Long COVID immune phenotypes identified for blockade69
Imbalanced single-cell data integration leads to loss of biological information68
Drug pipeline 1Q22 — a raft of new modalities … and clinical blowups68
Big mRNA players focus on flu vaccines68
Waive COVID-19 IP rights, poor nations urge68
Slivers of the spectrum67
Artificial intelligence-guided design of lipid nanoparticles for pulmonary gene therapy66
Inferring gene regulatory networks from single-cell multiome data using atlas-scale external data66
A competitive precision CRISPR method to identify the fitness effects of transcription factor binding sites66
High-throughput continuous evolution of compact Cas9 variants targeting single-nucleotide-pyrimidine PAMs66
AI for drug discovery is booming, but who owns the patents?66
Spatial tropism profiling of AAV vectors by ultrasensitive sequential FISH in tissue66
RNA drugs lower lipoprotein(a) and genetically driven cholesterol66
In vivo development of immune tissue in human intestinal organoids transplanted into humanized mice65
Negative innovation: when patents are bad for patients65
Dynamic, adaptive sampling during nanopore sequencing using Bayesian experimental design65
Prediction of drug efficacy from transcriptional profiles with deep learning65
Publisher Correction: Multistate and functional protein design using RoseTTAFold sequence space diffusion64
Activation of recombinases at specific DNA loci by zinc-finger domain insertions64
Generative models for protein structures and sequences64
Unprecedented blood biomarker enables ALS drug approval64
Estimation of tumor cell total mRNA expression in 15 cancer types predicts disease progression64
Predicting transcriptional outcomes of novel multigene perturbations with GEARS64
Massively parallel phenotyping of coding variants in cancer with Perturb-seq63
Single-cell immunology of SARS-CoV-2 infection63
Spatial mapping of the total transcriptome by in situ polyadenylation63
Automated reconstruction of whole-embryo cell lineages by learning from sparse annotations63
CRISPR-free, strand-selective mitochondrial DNA base editing using a nickase62
Personalized medicine is having its day62
Systematic discovery of recombinases for efficient integration of large DNA sequences into the human genome62
Base editing marches on the clinic61
A multiplex implantable microdevice assay identifies synergistic combinations of cancer immunotherapies and conventional drugs61
Strand-selective base editing of human mitochondrial DNA using mitoBEs61
Helping others enhances graduate student wellness and mental health61
Induced proximity at the cell surface60
Development of compact transcriptional effectors using high-throughput measurements in diverse contexts60
Solid-phase capture and profiling of open chromatin by spatial ATAC60
A knowledge graph to interpret clinical proteomics data60
Engineered live bacteria suppress Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in mouse lung and dissolve endotracheal-tube biofilms60
Protein design: the experts speak59
Supervised discovery of interpretable gene programs from single-cell data59
Trans-nuclease activity of Cas9 activated by DNA or RNA target binding59
Sparks of function by de novo protein design59
Expanding access to CAR T cell therapies through local manufacturing58
Putting CRISPR into African hands to future-proof crops58
Mapping multimodal phenotypes to perturbations in cells and tissue with CRISPRmap58
Chem-map profiles drug binding to chromatin in cells57
How to grow (almost) anything: a hybrid distance learning model for global laboratory-based synthetic biology education57
Transcriptome-wide profiling and quantification of N6-methyladenosine by enzyme-assisted adenosine deamination57
A proteome-wide atlas of drug mechanism of action56
A spatial genome aligner for resolving chromatin architectures from multiplexed DNA FISH56
Chemical and topological design of multicapped mRNA and capped circular RNA to augment translation56
Characterizing cellular heterogeneity in chromatin state with scCUT&Tag-pro56
Droplet-based transcriptome profiling of individual synapses56
Ebola as a case study for the patent landscape of medical countermeasures for emerging infectious diseases55
A microneedle vaccine printer for thermostable COVID-19 mRNA vaccines55
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