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Volume 17 Issue 12, December 2017

'Model railway' by Carl Conway, inspired by the articles on pages 738 and 751.

Research Highlight

  • An embryonic avian model recapitulates the early stages of tumorigenesis and metastases seen in patients with neuroblastoma.

    • Anna Dart
    Research Highlight

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  • Melloet al. analysed the effects of various p53 transactivation domain mutants in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and uncovered a crucial tumour-suppressive pathway in which p53 mediates inhibition of the transcriptional co-activator YAP.

    • Sarah Seton-Rogers
    Research Highlight
  • A modular synthetic RNA-based gene circuit has been developed to program tumour cells to express a combination of immunomodulators to improve the specificity and efficacy of cancer immunotherapy.

    • Anna Dart
    Research Highlight
  • The importance of 'Warburgian' metabolism in cancer is an increasingly disputed topic. By studying cancer metabolism in patients and mouse models, Faubertet al. now show that lactate is used as a respiratory fuel in non-small-cell lung cancer in vivo.

    • Ulrike Harjes
    Research Highlight
  • Sympathetic nerves associate with tumours and regulate the tumour microenvironment. How this innervation promotes tumorigenesis is unclear. A new study in Scienceshows that β-adrenergic signalling controls tumour growth by promoting tumour angiogenesis, through the regulation of vascular metabolism.

    • Ulrike Harjes
    Research Highlight
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In Brief

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Review Article

  • The adenosinergic pathway is a major immunosuppressive mechanism in the tumour microenvironment. In this Review, Vijayanet al. discuss how targeting components involved in the generation and downstream signalling of extracellular adenosine represents an attractive novel cancer therapy.

    • Dipti Vijayan
    • Arabella Young
    • Mark J. Smyth
    Review Article
  • Small-cell lung cancer is an aggressive form of lung cancer and has been difficult to treat due to therapy resistance. This Review discusses challenges and recent advances in uncovering molecular changes that allow potentially efficient therapies.

    • Adi F. Gazdar
    • Paul A. Bunn
    • John D. Minna
    Review Article
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Analysis

  • This Analysis examines preclinical mouse tumour studies published in eight scientific journals in 2016. It reviews current practices, identifies some important challenges and discusses ways in which the relevance, reproducibility and translatability of tumour models could be improved.

    • Nicolas Gengenbacher
    • Mahak Singhal
    • Hellmut G. Augustin
    Analysis
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