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Mammalian genome writing: Unlocking new length scales for genome engineering.

Sudarshan Pinglay, John T Atwater, Ran Brosh, Jay Shendure, Matthew T Maurano, Jef D Boeke

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Review in Cell, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Improved vector toolkit for genome writing in mammalian cells.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sudarshan PinglayDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA; Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, Seattle, WA, USA; Institute for Systems Genetics, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: pinglay@uw.edu.
John T AtwaterInstitute for Systems Genetics, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Ran BroshInstitute for Systems Genetics, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Department of Pathology, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA.
Jay ShendureDepartment of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Brotman Baty Institute for Precision Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA; Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, Seattle, WA, USA; Allen Discovery Center for Cell Lineage Tracing, Seattle, WA, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Seattle, WA, USA.
Matthew T MauranoInstitute for Systems Genetics, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Department of Pathology, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA.
Jef D BoekeInstitute for Systems Genetics, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA; Department of Biomedical Engineering, NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA.

Funding

Supplement for Center for Synthetic Regulatory Genomics: Building CACNA1C alleles associated with Neuropsychiatric DisordersRM1HG009491 · NHGRI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI Jef D BOEKE · 2018 to 2026
$20.9M
The Assemblatron-RenewalR01HG012743 · NHGRI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI Jef D BOEKE · 2023 to 2026
$3.9M
Dissecting the logic of mammalian gene regulation using synthetic biology and single-cell sequencingDP5OD036167 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Sudarshan Pinglay · 2023 to 2026
$1.9M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG012743NHGRI NIH HHS RM1 HG009491NIH HHS DP5 OD036167
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ability to design and engineer mammalian genomes across arbitrary length scales would transform biology and medicine. Such capabilities would enable the systematic dissection of mechanisms governing gene regulation and the influence of complex haplotypes on human traits and disease. They would also facilitate the engineering of disease models that more faithfully recapitulate human physiology and of next-generation cell therapies harboring sophisticated genetic circuits. Over the past decade, advances in genome editing have made small, targeted modifications at single sites routine. However, achieving multiple coordinated alterations across long sequence windows (>10 kb) or installing large synthetic DNA segments in mammalian cells remains a major challenge. Recent advances in mammalian genome writing-the bottom-up design, assembly, and targeted integration of large custom DNA sequences, independent of any natural template-offer a potential solution. Here, we review key technological developments, highlight emerging applications, and discuss current bottlenecks and strategies for overcoming them.

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Genetic EngineeringGenomeMammalsAnimalsHumans

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PMID41576918
PMCPMC12834481

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