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CellWhisperer uses multimodal learning of transcriptomes and text to answer questions about single-cell RNA-sequencing data go.nature.com/3WPGJnW rdcu.be/TamrmUPBYm6a
Multimodal learning enables chat-based exploration of single-cell data

Multimodal learning enables chat-based exploration of single-cell data

Nature Biotechnology - CellWhisperer uses multimodal learning of transcriptomes and text to answer questions about single-cell RNA-sequencing data.

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Giving AI a seat at the peer review table nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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Nature authors propose AI as a non-voting ‘Reviewer 4’ to ease peer review workload #NBTintheNews thecatalystbrief.com/article…
Nature Authors Propose AI As A Non-Voting ‘Reviewer 4’ To Ease Peer Review Workload

Nature Authors Propose AI As A Non-Voting ‘Reviewer 4’ To Ease Peer Review Workload

The authors describe external peer review as foundational to science but increasingly strained by limited reviewer time and rising complexity. Their proposal gives AI a defined support role: an...

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In vivo engineering of CAR natural killer cells for immunotherapy using ligand-directed lipid nanoparticles nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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Reprogrammed NK immune cells target cancer and autoimmune disorders #NBTintheNews via @MIT news.mit.edu/2026/reprogramm…
Reprogrammed NK immune cells target cancer and autoimmune disorders

Reprogrammed NK immune cells target cancer and autoimmune disorders

MIT engineers developed lipid nanoparticles that deliver mRNA to program natural killer (NK) cells inside the body. These CAR NK cells could be used to treat T cell cancers or autoimmune disorders...

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MIT scientists reprogram immune cells inside the body to destroy cancer #NBTintheNews scitechdaily.com/mit-scienti…
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Biotech news from around the world: Turkey, South Korea, Denmark, Lithuania nature.com/articles/s41587-0… rdcu.be/k8r28fA5sLPa
Biotech news from around the world

Biotech news from around the world

Nature Biotechnology - Biotech news from around the world

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Research Highlight: Live-cell imaging goes WHOLISTIC nature.com/articles/s41587-0…

Live-cell imaging goes WHOLISTIC

Nature Biotechnology - Live-cell imaging goes WHOLISTIC

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Nature research paper: Imaging cellular activity across all organs reveals body-wide circuits go.nature.com/4xSOOsS
Imaging cellular activity across all organs reveals body-wide circuits

Imaging cellular activity across all organs reveals body-wide circuits

Nature - An imaging system developed to record cellular activity throughout the whole body of zebrafish captures cellular organ dynamics and identifies multiple distributed circuits.

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Regeneron approval brings relief for ‘second skeleton’ bone disorder nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
Regeneron approval brings relief for ‘second skeleton’ bone disorder

Regeneron approval brings relief for ‘second skeleton’ bone disorder

Nature Biotechnology - The newly approved antibody stops abnormal bone growth in patients with the devastating disease fibrodysplasia ossificans.

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Engineering an immune receptor improves resistance to bacterial and fungal pathogens in a variety of plants go.nature.com/474nnA9 rdcu.be/HhLtVgah1mHa
Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance

Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance

Nature Biotechnology - Engineering an immune receptor improves resistance to bacterial and fungal pathogens in a variety of plants.

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As the @humancellatlas project enters its second decade, the question is no longer whether we can map human cells, it is what we will do with the map nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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An engineered, compact Cas12m variant for multiplexed gene activation in vivo nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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An mRNA–lipid nanoparticle vaccine against H5N1 influenza virus protects lactating dairy cows from infection nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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A metagenomic screen identifies retron reverse transcriptases for precise genome-editing applications go.nature.com/4nkr7DE rdcu.be/uETQjocfSgna
Discovery and engineering of retrons for precise genome editing

Discovery and engineering of retrons for precise genome editing

Nature Biotechnology - A metagenomic screen identifies retron reverse transcriptases for precise genome-editing applications.

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Deep dynamical models of single-cell multiomic velocities predict loss-of-function and rescue perturbations in B cells nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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Researchers develop AI tool that can predict a cell’s fate — and help change it #NBTintheNews eurekalert.org/news-releases…
MSK research highlights, October 22, 2026

MSK research highlights, October 22, 2026

New research from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) shows how genes activate across vast distances inside a cell; identifies a new form of cell death that could open new opportunities for...

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An analysis of the CRISPR–Cas patent landscape is essential for understanding applications in depth and overcoming challenges strategically, thereby supporting a safer integration of CRISPR–Cas into clinical practice nature.com/articles/s41587-0… rdcu.be/QhJVkdcUu7Ja
The global patent landscape of CRISPR–Cas applications in medicine

The global patent landscape of CRISPR–Cas applications in medicine

Nature Biotechnology - An analysis of the CRISPR–Cas patent landscape is essential for understanding applications in depth and overcoming challenges strategically, thereby supporting a safer...

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Engineered human Argonaute 2 for targeted C-to-U RNA base editing nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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Stanford repurposes a human protein into an RNA editor that beats Cas13 tools #NBTintheNews allsci.com/news/biotech/rna-…
Stanford repurposes a human protein into an RNA editor that beats Cas13 tools

Stanford repurposes a human protein into an RNA editor that beats Cas13 tools

Stanford researchers turn human AGO2 protein into an RNA base editor that outperforms Cas13 tools. Read how it works in this Nature Biotechnology study.

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Recent patents relating to systems, methods and compositions for use in genome editing nature.com/articles/s41587-0… rdcu.be/qoVixcVcNrAa

Genome editing

Nature Biotechnology - Recent patents relating to systems, methods and compositions for use in genome editing.

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Expanding global access to synthetic biology nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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Stem cell repair of injured monkey spinal cords restores hand function in 53% of trials go.nature.com/3LKx0ge rdcu.be/AYFYsSnnpwZa
Extensive restoration of forelimb function in primates with spinal cord injury by neural stem cell...

Extensive restoration of forelimb function in primates with spinal cord injury by neural stem cell...

Nature Biotechnology - Stem cell repair of injured monkey spinal cords restores hand function in 53% of trials.

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In a major step toward clinical translation, transplanting stem cells into the injured spinal cords of rhesus monkeys improves hand function #NBTNV go.nature.com/3JIjfOG rdcu.be/eQCUr
Stem cells help restore hand function after spinal cord injury in monkeys

Stem cells help restore hand function after spinal cord injury in monkeys

Nature Biotechnology - In a major step toward clinical translation, transplanting stem cells into the injured spinal cords of rhesus monkeys improves hand function.

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Recordanelles for transcriptome-wide single-cell RNA recording in human cells nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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New method reveals what a cell did days ago #NBTintheNews ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/e…
New method reveals what a cell did days ago

New method reveals what a cell did days ago

Many biological molecules are short-lived and ephemeral. Now, researchers at ETH Zurich have developed an archive function that allows them to look into a cell’s past for the first time. This could...

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.@Regeneron's newly approved antibody stops abnormal bone growth in patients with the devastating disease fibrodysplasia ossificans nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
Regeneron approval brings relief for ‘second skeleton’ bone disorder

Regeneron approval brings relief for ‘second skeleton’ bone disorder

Nature Biotechnology - The newly approved antibody stops abnormal bone growth in patients with the devastating disease fibrodysplasia ossificans.

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