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In this Review, Fagin et al. outline the oncogenic drivers of the common endocrine tumours, which derive from thyroid follicular cells, and how these impact tumour phenotypes and disease progression.
Two independent studies published in Nature have collectively addressed the long-standing question of sex bias in cancer and implicated non-hormonal genes of the Y chromosome in aggressive features of colorectal and bladder cancers in men.
The role of the microbiota in tumorigenesis has garnered considerable attention over the past two decades. In this Review, El Tekle and Garrett explore the current and evolving understanding of microbiota in cancers of various internal organs, as well as highlighting opportunities for targeting bacteria for cancer prevention, diagnostics and treatment.
In this study, Malladi and colleagues reveal the mechanism by which mitochondrial fragmentation enables latent brain metastatic breast cancer cells to increase fatty acid oxidation to maintain cellular energetics and redox homeostasis.
Tumour ecosystems encompass a multitude of variables, including enzymatic, metabolic and immune components within the tumour and across organs. This Review summarizes how micro-engineering approaches and nanosensors have been used to establish multicomponent tumour models and to assess tumour plasticity.
In this Review, Zeng et al. describe the recent single-cell omics studies that have revealed the heterogeneity of human tumour endothelial cells and demonstrate that the phenotypes of these cells extend beyond that of simply being angiogenic, an observation that could be translated into the clinic to improve upon the success rate of current anti-angiogenic therapies.
In this Tools of the Trade article, Ciaran Seath describes the development and use of a proximity labelling method to study how cancer driving mutations and small molecule ligands remodel the chromatin microenvironment.
Wang et al. demonstrate how tumour-derived extracellular vesicles and particles dysregulate liver function to promote fatty liver disease and diminish chemotherapeutic efficacy.
mRNA for therapeutics is growing in popularity owing to the relative ease of synthesis and nucleotide alteration for personalized medicine. In this Review, Liu et al. outline the characteristics of in vitro transcribed mRNA-based therapeutics for cancer treatment, highlighting the ongoing clinical studies, current challenges and future opportunities.
The activities of YAP and TAZ have long been associated with cancer progression. In this Review, Franklin et al. provide an integrated perspective on the latest understandings of YAP and TAZ activation, including their role as a tumour suppressor, as well as advances in YAP and TAZ therapeutic treatments.
In this Tools of the Trade article, Isabel Esain-Garcia describes the development and use of a 6-letter whole-genome sequencing technology, which enables the simultaneous acquisition of genetic and epigenetic information from human genomic and cell-free DNA, which has implications for improving our biological understanding of cancer as well as cancer diagnosis and early intervention.
This Review outlines risk factors and prevention strategies for cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) and highlights recent advances in the understanding of the impact of molecular and cellular intra-tumour heterogeneity that provide the basis for new therapeutic strategies to treat advanced cSCC.
In this Perspective article, Mel Greaves and co-workers outline emerging evidence that suggests that children with newly diagnosed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia may have a delayed maturation of the gut microbiome compared with healthy children, a deficit that might be associated with early-life epidemiological factors and could contribute to the risk of transformation of preleukaemic clones in response to common infectious triggers.
In this Perspective, the authors suggest that different tumour microenvironments have ‘archetypal’ qualities across all cancers — characteristic and repeating collections of cells and gene-expression profiles at the level of the bulk tumour. They propose the existence of 12 dominant immune archetypes.
In this Tool of the Trade article, Eva Freckmann describes the development of Traject3d, a workflow that enables the detection of heterogeneous phenotypes in 3D culture by analysing label-free multi-day time-lapse imaging.
In this Review, Schwenck et al. discuss how PET imaging of cancer has advanced through its combination with CT and MRI and the development of an array of imaging probes, and how these innovations now need to be fully integrated into the clinic to improve cancer diagnostics and guide therapy.
In this study, Insco et al. find patient-specific CDK13 mutations to impede RNA surveillance, leading to the accumulation and translation of prematurely terminated RNAs that drive malignancy in melanoma models.
