Cancer Biology

Cancer Biology

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    1. Cancer Biology

    Microbial Metabolites Potentiate MAIT Cell Anti-Tumor Immunity Against Solid Tumors

    Yichen Zhu, Xinyuan Shen ... Lili Yang
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Cancer Biology

    Molecular and Functional Analysis of Calcium Binding by a Cancer-linked Calreticulin Mutant

    Ishmael Nii Ayibontey Tagoe, Amanpreet Kaur ... Malini Raghavan
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    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Cancer Biology

    MicroRNA spatial profiling for assessing drug efficacy in BRCA1-related triple-negative breast tumors

    Omar N Mohd, Lin Wang ... Patrick S Doyle
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    1. Cancer Biology

    Break-induced replication drives large-scale genomic amplifications in cancer cells

    Mouadh Benamar, Rebeka Eki ... Tarek Abbas
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    1. Cancer Biology

    Loss of canonical sex steroid signaling correlates with prostate cancer progression and induces tumor escape in Drosophila

    Marine Vialat, Elissa Baabdaty ... Cyrille de Joussineau
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    1. Cancer Biology

    An Itch Receptor Drives Melanoma

    Naina Gour, Aishwarya Atakkatan ... Xinzhong Dong
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    1. Cancer Biology

    Nerve injury-induced protein 2 preserves lysosomal membrane integrity to suppress ferroptosis

    Jin Zhang, Miranda Bustamante ... Xinbin Chen
    Revealing a role for NINJ2 in maintaining lysosomal homeostasis and preventing ferroptosis, laying the foundation for the development of cancer therapeutics targeting NINJ2.
    1. Cancer Biology

    Serum, cell-free, HPV-human DNA junction detection and HPV typing for predicting and monitoring cervical cancer recurrence

    Anne R Van Arsdale, Olga Meshcheryakova ... Jack Lenz
    HPV-human DNA junction detection in serum cell-free DNA unambiguously identifies tumor genetic-signatures of integrated viral DNA from HPV-induced cancers and could be useful for recurrence prediction and monitoring residual disease.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Slap restricts oncogenic Src-family kinase signaling to maintain colonic epithelial homeostasis

    Dana Naim, Zouheir Houhou ... Serge Roche
    Src-like adaptor protein (SLAP) preserves intestinal epithelial homeostasis by restraining Src-family kinase signaling, revealing a non-genetic mechanism limiting colorectal tumor initiation.
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Cancer Biology

    Cutaneous inflammation accelerates the premalignant expansion of melanocytes bearing oncogenic mutations

    Diana Tran, Anastasiia Vaska ... Morgan Huse
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    1. Cancer Biology
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    Tumor Biology: The two faces of JAK-STAT

    Qianying Lu, Yingyi Zhang
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Cell Biology

    Chemotherapy: Lipid balance and chemoresistance in cancer cells

    Kaori Kanemaru, Yoshikazu Nakamura
    1. Cancer Biology

    Breast Cancer: Slowing the growth of drug-resistant tumors

    Yingyi Zhang, Qianying Lu

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    National Cancer Institute, United States
  2. Caigang Liu
    Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, China
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    King's College London, United Kingdom
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