Cancer Biology

Cancer Biology

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Latest articles

    1. Cancer Biology

    Breast Cancer: Slowing the growth of drug-resistant tumors

    Yingyi Zhang, Qianying Lu
    Using drugs that inhibit enzymes called CDK4/6 and CDK2 extends the G1 phase of the cell cycle and helps to slow the growth of drug-resistant breast cancer.
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Cancer Biology

    GMCL1 Controls 53BP1 Stability and Modulates Taxane Sensitivity

    Yuki Kito, Tania J González-Robles ... Michele Pagano
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Useful
    • Inadequate
    1. Cancer Biology

    Multi-gradient permutation survival analysis identifies mitosis and immune signatures steadily associated with cancer patient prognosis

    Xinlei Cai, Yi Ye ... Hongbin Ji
    Genes steadily associated with prognosis define conserved mitotic and immune programs that robustly predict cancer patient survival and therapeutic resistance across tumor types.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Transcriptional subtypes on immune microenvironment and predicting postoperative recurrence and metastasis in human pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma

    Yang Liu, Xu Yan ... Lingyu Li
    Distinct transcriptional subtypes in PPGLs link molecular programs with immune context, providing biomarkers for recurrence risk and therapeutic targeting.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Endoscopic liquid biopsies of gastric fluid in a large human patient cohort reveal DNA content as a candidate tumor biomarker in gastric cancer

    Francine C Cadoná, Thais F Bartelli ... Emmanuel Dias-Neto
    Elevated gfDNA supports gastric cancer diagnosis and may guide management when combined with tissue biopsies, and in established cancer, higher gfDNA may predict better outcomes, potentially indicating immune-cell infiltration.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Degradation of LMO2 in T cell leukaemia results in collateral breakdown of transcription complex partners and causes LMO2-dependent apoptosis

    Naphannop Sereesongsaeng, Carole Bataille ... Terence Rabbitts
    Antibody surrogate degraders of LMO2 indicate that transcription complexes are susceptible to drug discovery and are therefore druggable.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Spatially defined multicellular functional units in colorectal cancer revealed from single cell and spatial transcriptomics

    Inbal Avraham-Davidi, Simon Mages ... Aviv Regev
    An integrative analysis of scRNA-seq and spatial transcriptomics provides complementary views into the biology of pre-clinical colorectal cancer models in mice with possible applications to the human system.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Cancer Biology

    Early Diagnosis and Prognostic Prediction of Colorectal Cancer through Plasma Methylation Regions

    Lingqin Zhu, Lang Yang ... Jianqiu Sheng
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Cancer Biology

    Mitochondrial Protein Carboxyl-Terminal Alanine-Threonine Tailing Promotes Glioblastoma Tumor Growth by Regulating Mitochondrial Function

    Bei Zhang, Ting Cai ... Zhihao Wu
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
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    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Cancer Biology

    Multimodal single-cell analyses reveal distinct fusion-regulated transcriptional programs in Ewing sarcoma

    Olivia G Waltner, April A Apfelbaum ... Scott N Furlan
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing

Highlights

    1. Cancer Biology

    Targeting drug-resistant tumors

    Yingyi Zhang, Qianying Lu
    1. Cancer Biology

    Reproducibility in Cancer Biology

    Edited by Roger J Davis et al.

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