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Volume 20 Issue 5, May 2020

There’s something fishy here, inspired by the Review on p263.

Cover design: Lara Crow.

Research Highlights

  • Two recent papers have investigated the potential roles that changes in chromosome numbers might have on the evolution and progression of tumours.

    • Sarah Seton-Rogers
    Research Highlight

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  • Pleguezuelos-Manzano et al. have discovered a mutational signature in colorectal cancer that arises following exposure to genotoxic pks+ E. coli, firmly establishing causality.

    • Anna Dart
    Research Highlight
  • Hoekstra et al. and Thibaut et al., both reporting in Nature Cancer, show that interferon-γ secreted by tumour-reactive T cells diffuses into the tumour microenvironment and acts on remote tumour cells to modify tumour behaviour.

    • Ulrike Harjes
    Research Highlight
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Reviews

  • This Review outlines the recent advances in the creation of both combinatorial transgenic cancer models in zebrafish and zebrafish patient-derived xenograft models, and argues that these models have potential to be used as avatars for precision oncology.

    • Maurizio Fazio
    • Julien Ablain
    • Leonard I. Zon
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Perspectives

  • This Perspective discusses the development of cachexia in the context of cancer progression, providing insight into how circulating factors contribute to this syndrome, and exploring how signals involved in metastasis can potentially amplify cachexia development.

    • Anup K. Biswas
    • Swarnali Acharyya
    Perspective
  • This Perspective outlines our current understanding of how the bone marrow niche contributes to both the initiation and the progression of haematological malignancies and suggests guidelines for the field which might help to overcome existing research challenges.

    • Simón Méndez-Ferrer
    • Dominique Bonnet
    • Daniela S. Krause
    Perspective
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