Cancer Biology

Cancer Biology

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Latest articles

    1. Cancer Biology

    Metabolic reprogramming of cancer cells by JMJD6-mediated pre-mRNA splicing associated with therapeutic response to splicing inhibitor

    Carolyn M Jablonowski, Waise Quarni ... Jun Yang
    Genetic analyses and biochemical studies show that JMJD6 promotes MYC-mediated transformation and is required for neuroblastoma growth by complexing with pre-mRNA splicing factors.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Medicine

    Open-top Bessel beam two-photon light sheet microscopy for three-dimensional pathology

    Won Yeong Park, Jieun Yun ... Ki Hean Kim
    Open-top Bessel beam two-photon light sheet microscopy have the potential for rapid and accurate nondestructive pathology by visualizing 3D histological information.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Disassembly of embryonic keratin filaments promotes pancreatic cancer metastases

    Ryan R. Kawalerski, Mariana Torrente Gonçalves ... Luisa F. Escobar-Hoyos
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Identification of fallopian tube microbiota and its association with ovarian cancer

    Bo Yu, Congzhou Liu ... David N Fredricks
    A prospective study of intraoperative swab collections from 187 patients identified a putative fallopian tube microbiota and a clear shift in ovarian cancer patients compared to non-cancer patients.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Nifuroxazide suppresses PD-L1 expression and enhances the efficacy of radiotherapy in hepatocellular carcinoma

    Tiesuo Zhao, Pengkun Wei ... Huijie Jia
    A cellular experiment and animal model reveals that nifuroxazide can inhibit the expression of PD-L1 through the proteasome pathway, rather than at the genetic level.
    1. Cancer Biology

    YAP/TAZ enhance P-body formation to promote tumorigenesis

    Xia Shen, Xiang Peng ... Chen-Ying Liu

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    Brown University, United States
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