Deaminet 2026: Breakthroughs in Base Editing, Deaminase Biology, and Therapeutic Translation
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...highlight that Cas9 binding and editing outcomes can diverge substantially, reinforcing the need for assays...Capturing the editing intermediate directly
While ABEs can theoretically correct nearly half of all pathogenic...these data illustrate how rigorously editor safety can now be assessed as programs move toward the clinic...that even subclonal A3A expression (~10% of cells) can reshape entire ovarian tumors via IL 6–mediated paracrine...explaining why tumors with low overall APOBEC burden can still exhibit aggressive behavior.
Finally, Alex ...the same chemistry enabling precise genome editing can profoundly reshape cellular biology when misregulated...resolving APOBEC proteins at atomic resolution, to cancer biologists dissecting mutational processes, to ...