Senior Editor at @NatureBiotech. Views are my own

London, England
Joined January 2019
Check out our August digital issue here: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/0677koQdm… @NatureBiotech
The August issue is live nature.com/nbt/volumes/44/is… The cover shows an illustration of hemorrhagic stroke debris being cleared from the mouse brain by ultrasound. Azadian et al. develop a focused ultrasound protocol that clears pathogenic debris from the brain through the meningeal lymphatics in two mouse models of stroke go.nature.com/4nO5s71 rdcu.be/fzlEz
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New online in @NatureBiotech: Spatial relationships between neoantigens and cognate T cells are studied.
Single-nucleus multimodal spatial transcriptomics reveals spatial colocalization of neoantigen-expressing tumor cells and cognate T cells nature.com/articles/s41587-0…
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Check out the brief digital edition of @NatureBiotech July issue here: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/mYgJDrWKR…
The July issue is live nature.com/nbt/volumes/44/is… On the cover, the microbiome is depicted as an interconnected network in which relationships among genes and proteins provide context for uncovering hidden biological functions. Zhang et al. introduce FUGAsseM, a method that uses microbial community data to infer the functions of previously uncharacterized gene products go.nature.com/435C4lp rdcu.be/ftNUV
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The brief digital edition of @NatureBiotech’s June issue is live now! Check it out here: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/eXJfskj-p…
The June issue is live nature.com/nbt/volumes/44/is… The cover shows an illustration of vascularized tumors on a chip. Liu et al. present a long‑term, perfused system for human solid tumors that supports CAR‑T delivery and real‑time analysis of tumor–CAR‑T dynamics, evaluation of engineering strategies, and identification of druggable targets go.nature.com/3Jc62gv rdcu.be/foISS
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Single-cell spatial pharmacobiology identifies conserved stromal barriers to therapeutic antibody delivery in human solid tumors go.nature.com/4atBJML
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The brief digital edition of @NatureBiotech’s May issue is live now! Check it out here: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/nIyLxLYlm…
The May issue is live nature.com/nbt/volumes/44/is… On the cover, Zhang et al. describe an antibody-based therapy against drug-resistant S. aureus. The antibody conjugate selectively binds to the wall teichoic acid of the bacteria and enriches calcium on the cell envelope, induces bacterial death and boosts immunogenicity go.nature.com/3UaGItg
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The brief digital edition of @NatureBiotech’s 30th anniversary issue is live now! Check it out here: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/NklmWJ7y-…
The March issue is live nature.com/nbt/volumes/44/is… On the cover, Chen et al. engineered TadA-derived mitochondrial DNA adenine base editors for efficient mtDNA A-to-G editing with expanded targeting scopes and minimal off-target effects. This robust editing approach led to the successful generation of mitochondrial disease models go.nature.com/3TaxaOg go.nature.com/4dHqZea
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The brief digital edition of @NatureBiotech’s February issue is live now! Check it out here: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/3EFLYt2JA…
The February issue is live nature.com/nbt/volumes/44/is… On the cover, barcoding microbial ribosomal RNA creates a record of gene transfer events without requiring translation. Kalvapalle et al. designed catalytic RNAs to barcode host RNA upon gene transfer, allowing high-throughput sequencing to identify the community involved go.nature.com/440gL5E
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The brief digital edition of @NatureBiotech’s first issue of 2026 is now live! Check it out here: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/CCnzwsGlQ…
The January issue is live nature.com/nbt/volumes/44/is… On the cover, Luebbert et al. present a method to detect viral sequences in bulk and single-cell transcriptomic data using conserved amino acid domains instead of annotated reference genomes go.nature.com/4lGrSY3
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The dawn of in vivo immune cell engineering in oncology go.nature.com/4r732m4
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Our @NatureBiotech editorial this month discusses how Treg cell biology research is driving therapeutic innovation in cancer immunotherapy, autoimmune diseases, and transplant rejection.
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The brief digital edition of @NatureBiotech December issue is live now! 🎉 Check it out here👉 mp.weixin.qq.com/s/s9rh4chmd…
The December issue is live nature.com/nbt/volumes/43/is… The cover shows a representation of hybrid quantum computing for drug design. Ghazi Vakili et al. present a hybrid quantum–classical generative model to design molecules to inhibit KRAS activity. Two candidates are synthesized and further characterized go.nature.com/3EitbLm
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New online in @NatureBiotech: Cancer immunotherapy benefits from antibody-lectin chimeras that block glyco-immune checkpoints.
Antibody-lectin chimeras for glyco-immune checkpoint blockade go.nature.com/4aRDpk8
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Our @NatureBiotech editorial team picks our favorite research articles from 2025. We’ve also posted a Chinese version here 👉 mp.weixin.qq.com/s/fY10zwulj…
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The brief digital edition of Nature Biotechnology November issue is live now! 🎉 Check it out here👉 mp.weixin.qq.com/s/RxFGoMOwg… @NatureBiotech
The November issue is live nature.com/nbt/volumes/43/is… On the cover, lipid nanoparticles targeting the lung, designed using neural networks. A method developed by Witten et al. identified two structures that efficiently delivered mRNA to ferret lungs go.nature.com/4fbj0VU
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Looking forward to #SITC25 next week! Please get in touch if you’d like to discuss your upcoming submissions to Nature Biotechnology! @NatureBiotech
Join us as we take a step back in time and celebrate all we have accomplished in immuno-oncology over the past 40 years! We will be remembering all our IO milestones as we lead up to our 40th Anniversary Annual Meeting! sitcancer.org/2025/home
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New online in @NatureBiotech: The interactions of CAT-T cells and solid tumors are modeled on a chip.
A tumor-on-a-chip for in vitro study of CAR-T cell immunotherapy in solid tumors go.nature.com/3Jc62gv
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The brief digital edition of our Nature Biotechnology October issue is live now! 🎉 Check it out here: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/nZSLSSxF4… @NatureBiotech
The October issue is live nature.com/nbt/volumes/43/is… The cover shows perturbations that convert stem-like, atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT) cells into a more differentiated, neuron-like state go.nature.com/4hXER5O
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The brief digital edition of our @NatureBiotech September issue is live now! Check it out here: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/vDXak-Ph4…
The September issue is live nature.com/nbt/volumes/43/is… On the cover, a system for high-precision mutation detection of mRNA in extracellular vesicles. Song et al. present SCOPE, a method that uses Cas13 to recognize and amplify target RNA for liquid biopsy applications go.nature.com/47Yw8Mf
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On our latest podcast, Barbara Cheifet talks with Zhenan Bao and John Rogers about the latest in electronic wearables and how they will complement and advance global health — from health monitoring in neonates to smart bandages for wounds shows.acast.com/forum/episod…
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