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Sharma et al. review the regulation and biological functions of apparently ‘futile’ dynamic lipid cycle in regulating whole-body metabolic homeostasis.
Demicco, Liu et al. discuss how metabolic adaptations in cancer contribute to tumour progression. These adaptations entail high spatial and temporal metabolic heterogeneity, based on local adaptations in different regions of the tumour microenvironment, as well as metabolic evolution over time as the tumour progresses and metastasizes.