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In a recent study published in Nature, Goto et al. explore mechanisms of immune evasion in early colorectal cancers and adenomas and identify SOX17 to be crucial for immune escape through suppression of interferon-γ signalling.
In this recent study, He et al. establish that chronic stress promotes metastasis through stress-induced formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs).
Recently published in Nature, Fan et al. demonstrate that accumulation of advanced glycation end-products in the extracellular matrix of the liver increases viscoelasticity to promote hepatocellular carcinoma growth, independent of stiffness.
Two independent studies published in Nature implicate distal cholesterol biosynthesis in the regulation of ferroptosis and show that 7-dehydrocholesterol (7-DHC) is an endogenous, anti-ferroptotic metabolite.
Mutant gain-of-function p53 is commonly found in human cancers. Huang, Cao, Qian et al. developed and validated the use of multifunctional biomimetic nanoreceptors that bind to and promote the degradation of mutant p53 as a cancer therapy.
Goddard et al. report that disseminated tumour cells evade T cell immunity due to their relative scarcity, which decreases the likelihood of T cell–tumour cell interactions.
Zhao et al. identified lymphatic endothelial-like cells in glioblastoma and demonstrated their role in promoting tumour growth through increased glioblastoma cholesterol metabolism.
In a recent Developmental Cell paper, Falvo et al. establish a role for epigenetic memory of inflammatory injury in promoting pancreatic tumorigenesis.
In a comprehensive study in acute myeloid leukaemia, Ozga et al. demonstrate sex-specific differences in the frequency and prognostic effect of genetic alterations.
Kreuzaler et al. examine the spatial metabolic rewiring driven by oncogenic MYC and show that it leads to increased import of vitamin B5, which represents a metabolic vulnerability to tumour progression.
In this study, Bansaccal et al. analyse why, at some skin locations, oncogene-expressing cells rarely progress to cancer and found that a dense dermal collagen network prevents skin cancer formation.
Enzymes that produce metabolites specifically required by cancer cells have become attractive targets for therapy. Recently, Doshi et al. highlighted the potential of targeting the detoxifying enzyme UXS1 in cancer.
Maas et al. identify an inflammatory, immunosuppressive phenotype in neutrophils that accumulates in brain malignancies, and show that this tumour-promoting neutrophil activation is driven by the brain tumour microenvironment.
Wang et al. show that antibiotic targeting of anaerobic intratumoral bacteria exposes a unique repertoire of microbial neoantigens that can successfully trigger cellular immunity against colorectal cancer in mice.
Pregnancy-associated breast cancers are typically diagnosed at more advanced stages than other breast cancers. Recently, Saura et al. developed a non-invasive screening method using breast milk to diagnose patients prior to tumour detection by imaging.
In a recent study, Sanchez-Aguilera, Masmudi-Martín et al. find that a molecular program explains the cognitive impairment often seen in patients with brain metastasis, challenging the prevailing paradigm of the tumour mass being the sole cause of altered brain function.
