Deaminet 2026: Breakthroughs in Base Editing, Deaminase Biology, and Therapeutic Translation
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 10, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
...biologists resolving APOBEC proteins at atomic resolution, to cancer biologists dissecting mutational processes...of 14 years of CRISPR plasmid deposition and distribution data at Addgene. Since 2012, Addgene has distributed...early as 2013 still account for ~4% of all 2025 distributions. At the same time, several editors deposited...deep dives: Understanding deaminases at atomic resolution
PE6d: Processivity gains and overextension trade-offs...of prime editing. DNA release and heteroduplex resolution are not shown. Created with BioRender.com.
...preferences, and edit types.
3. From bench to bedside: Therapeutic translation is accelerating
Base editors and ...codon–class problem, offering a potentially scalable therapeutic strategy.
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