Papers from the literature selected by the Nature Biotechnology editors. (Follow us on Twitter, @NatureBiotech #nbtHighlight)

Phototactic guidance of a tissue-engineered soft-robotic ray

Park, S.-J. et al. Science 353, 158–162 (2016)

Reengineering chimeric antigen receptor T cells for targeted therapy of autoimmune disease

Ellebrecht, C.T. et al. Science 353, 179–184 (2016)

Sugar synthesis from CO 2 in Escherichia coli

Antonovsky, N. et al. Cell 166, 115–125 (2016)

Ultra-high resolution 3D imaging of whole cells

Huang, F. et al. Cell doi:10.1016/j.cell.2016.06.016 (2016)

Quantitative assessment of fluorescent proteins

Cranfill, P.J. et al. Nat. Methods 13, 557–562 (2016)