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A decade of research in review

For Nature Biotechnology’s 30th anniversary, our editors look back at a few of their favorite papers published in the past decade.

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Despang, A., Bishop, A., Doerr, A. et al. A decade of research in review. Nat Biotechnol 44, 339–341 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-026-03030-6

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