Cancer Biology

Cancer Biology

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    1. Cancer Biology

    SETD2 suppresses tumorigenesis in a KRASG12C-driven lung cancer model and its catalytic activity is regulated by histone acetylation

    Ricardo J Mack, Natasha M Flores ... Or Gozani
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Cancer Biology

    Repression of PRMT activities sensitize homologous recombination-proficient ovarian and breast cancer cells to PARP inhibitor treatment

    Youyou Zhang, Mu Xu ... Lin Zhang
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Cancer Biology

    The lnc-FANCI-2 intrinsically restricts RAS signaling in HPV16-infected cervical cancer

    Haibin Liu, Lulu Yu ... Zhi-Ming Zheng
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Cancer Biology

    Subtypes and proliferation patterns of small intestine neuroendocrine tumors revealed by single cell RNA sequencing

    Einav Someach, Debdatta Halder ... Itay Tirosh
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    1. Cancer Biology

    Erythrocytosis-inducing PHD2 mutations implicate biological role for N-terminal prolyl-hydroxylation in HIF1α oxygen-dependent degradation domain

    Cassandra C Taber, Wenguang He ... Michael Ohh
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
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    1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
    2. Cancer Biology

    p53-induced RNA-binding protein ZMAT3 inhibits transcription of a hexokinase to suppress mitochondrial respiration

    Ravi Kumar, Simon Couly ... Ashish Lal
    Not revised
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    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Medicine

    Gamma Knife stereotactic radiotherapy combined with tislelizumab as later-line therapy in pMMR/MSS/MSI-L metastatic colorectal cancer: a phase II trial analysis

    Yiran Zhang, Hanyang Guan ... Jinghua Pan
    Patients with microsatellite stable/low microsatellite instability mismatch repair-proficient metastatic colorectal cancer may be sensitive to tislelizumab treatment after receiving Gamma Knife stereotactic radiotherapy.
    1. Cancer Biology
    2. Chromosomes and Gene Expression

    Cancer: Reading the DNA of telomeres

    Shamayita Roy, Claus M Azzalin
    Experiments with tools designed to detect DNA damage reveal unique and conserved features of telomeres in cancer cells.
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    1. Cancer Biology

    A multi-gene predictive model for the radiation sensitivity of nasopharyngeal carcinoma based on machine learning

    Kailai Li, Junyi Liang ... Hui Meng
    A machine learning-derived multi-gene score effectively predicts radiation sensitivity in nasopharyngeal carcinoma by integrating immune characteristics and radiosensitivity-related pathways.

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    National Cancer Institute, United States
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    McGill University, Canada
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    Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, China
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