Deaminet 2026: Breakthroughs in Base Editing, Deaminase Biology, and Therapeutic Translation
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 10, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
...efficient prime editors. Cell, 186(18), 3983–4002. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.07.039
Gupta, A.,... presented beCasKAS (Wang et al., 2025), an in cellulo assay that simultaneously detects Cas9-mediated...resulting deaminase edits. Applied in primary T cells, the method nominates over 460-fold more off target...captures the ABE intermediate inosine directly in cellulo using a novel chemistry. This approach achieves...ProBE (Emily King, Kleinstiver Lab, Harvard) is a 96-well platform for parallel characterization of hundreds...suppressor tRNAs achieved ~30% protein rescue in cell models of Batten and Tay-Sachs disease. In vivo,...dsDNA caused toxicity at low doses, whereas oDNA was well tolerated at doses fourfold higher and achieved ...