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Cytosine base editors optimized for genome editing in potato protoplasts

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Base editing strategies to convert CAG to CAA diminish the disease-causing mutation in Huntington’s disease

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Direct delivery of Cas-embedded cytosine base editors as ribonucleoprotein complexes for efficient and accurate editing of clinically relevant targets

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Recent Advances in Genome Base Editing Technology and Its Applications in Industrial Microorganism

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Efficient Rescue of Retinal Degeneration in Pde6a Mice by Engineered Base Editing and Prime Editing

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Rationally designed Campylobacter jejuni Cas9 enables efficient gene activation and base editing

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Retinal organoid and gene editing for basic and translational research

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nCas9 Engineering for Improved Target Interaction Presents an Effective Strategy to Enhance Base Editing

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APOBEC Reporter Systems for Evaluating diNucleotide Editing Levels

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Inactivation of the key ORFs of HBV for antiviral therapy by non-cleavage base editing

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Parallel engineering and activity profiling of a base editor system

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CRISPR-based knockout and base editing confirm the role of MYRF in heart development and congenital heart disease

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Harnessing the power of directed evolution to improve genome editing systems

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Rapid customization of base editors via machine learning-powered combinatorial mutagenesis

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Targeted DNA ADP-ribosylation triggers templated repair in bacteria and base mutagenesis in eukaryotes

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Revolutionizing genetic disease treatment: Recent technological advances in base editing

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Protein engineering technologies for development of next-generation genome editors

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To cut or not to cut: Next-generation genome editors for precision genome engineering

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A high-throughput platform for feedback-controlled directed evolutionPreprint

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Comprehensive Analysis of CRISPR Base Editing Outcomes for Multimeric ProteinPreprint

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Optimizing ABA-based chemically induced proximity for enhanced intracellular transcriptional activation and modification response to ABA

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Engineered Cas12j‐8 is a Versatile Platform for Multiplexed Genome Modulation in Mammalian Cells

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Directed Evolution of CRISPR-Cas9 Base Editors

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Base editing strategies to convert CAG to CAA diminish the disease-causing mutation in Huntington's diseasePreprint

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A modified glycosylase base editor without predictable DNA off‐target effects

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Rationally Designed TadA‐Derived Cytosine Editors Enable Context‐Independent Zebrafish Genome Editing

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Genotoxicity profiling reveals distinct platform-and cell type-specific effects in therapeutic gene editing for genetic hyperinflammation

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Applications of genome editing technologies in the treatment of human diseases

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Engineering of Peptide‐Inserted Base Editors with Enhanced Accuracy and Security

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Efforts to Downsize Base Editors for Clinical Applications

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Molecular tools for genome editing in plants: a synthetic overview

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Nanodelivery systems for gene editing drugs

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How CRISPR Is Revolutionizing the Generation of New Models for Cancer ResearchPreprint

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YeastIT: Reducing mutational bias for in vivo directed evolution using a novel yeast mutator strain based on dual adenine-/cytosine-targeting and error-prone DNA repairPreprint

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Programmable Chemical Evolution with Natural/Non‐Natural Building Blocks

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Bacterial directed evolution of CRISPR base editors

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A hyper-active APOBEC1 mutant boosted profiling of RNA-binding protein (RBP) targets

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CRISPR/AID-mediated multiplex genome editing in Halomonas spp.: A robust toolbox for industrial strain development

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Advances in Strategies for In Vivo Directed Evolution of Targeted Functional Genes

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Sequence Display Enables Large-Scale Sequence–Activity Datasets for Rapid Protein Evolution

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Microbiome and cancer: mechanistic insights, diagnostic potential, and therapeutic strategies

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CRISPR Gene Editing of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells

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De novo PAM generation to reach initially inaccessible target sites for base editing

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Development of cell labeling and gene editing tools in urochordate Ciona

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A Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Classification of Diverse Base Editors

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Base editing strategies to convert CAG to CAA diminish the disease-causing mutation in Huntington's diseasePreprint

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Combining a Base Deaminase Mutator with Phage-Assisted Evolution

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Hyperactive Nickase Activity Improves Adenine Base Editing

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RNA-Seq Identification of Peanut Callus-Specific Promoters and Evaluation of Base-Editing Efficiency

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Development of an intron-optimized dual base editor enables enhanced echinocandin B tolerance and regulatory circuit optimization in Aspergillus nidulans

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Optimizing linker length of base editors for precise crop breeding and gene therapy

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Nucleotide-resolution mapping of regulatory elements via allelic readout of tiled base editing

Becerra, B., Wittibschlager, S., Patel, Z. M., Kutschat, A. P., Delano, J., Che, E., Tauber, A., Wu, T., Starrs, M. M., Horstmann, C. S., et al. (2026) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-026-69918-8 · Cited by 1

Gap-free genome of Durio zibethinus cv. Chuongbo

Wang, S., Zhang, J., Guo, G., Li, Z., Chen, F., & Wang, W. (2026) · Tropical Plants · doi:10.48130/tp-0026-0003 · Cited by 2

Boosting cytosine base editing in potato through synergistic optimization

Zhang, Y., Zhang, L., Deng, J., Zhou, H., Xiao, E., Zhu, G., Zhang, C., & Chen, K. (2026) · Horticulture Research · doi:10.1093/hr/uhag122 · Cited by 1

Translating base editors: a decade of progress from the bench to the clinic

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Predicting Mutations Generated by Cas9, Base Editing, and Prime Editing in Mammalian Cells

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Research advances on precise plant genome base replacement and its applications based on CRISPR-Cas system

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Roadmap for the use of base editors to decipher drug mechanism of action

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Sequence Diversification Screens with CRISPR‐Cas9‐Guided Base Editors

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A temperature-tolerant CRISPR base editor mediates highly efficient and precise gene inactivation in vivoPreprint

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Activation-induced cytidine deaminase-based in vivo continuous evolution system enables rapid protein engineeringPreprint

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Direct delivery of stabilized Cas-embedded base editors achieves efficient and accurate editing of clinically relevant targetsPreprint

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A comprehensive benchmark for multiple highly efficient base editors with broad targeting scopePreprint

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Replacing the SpCas9 HNH domain by deaminases generates compact base editors with an alternative targeting scopePreprint

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Sequencing uracil in DNA at single-nucleotide resolutionPreprint

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Right tool for the right job : Exploring the diversity of type V CRISPR-Cas systems

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Evolved cytidine and adenine base editors with high precision and minimized off-target activity by a continuous directed evolution system in mammalian cells

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Evolution of an adenine base editor into a small, efficient cytosine base editor with low off-target activity

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Phage-assisted evolution of an adenine base editor with improved Cas domain compatibility and activity

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Phage-assisted evolution of highly active cytosine base editors with enhanced selectivity and minimal sequence context preference

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Machine Learning and Directed Evolution of Base Editing EnzymesPreprint

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