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  • In this Journal Club, Oh and Kim discuss a study demonstrating the mechanisms underlying histological transformation of lung adenocarcinoma to neuroendocrine small-cell lung cancer.

    • Songji Oh
    • Tae Min Kim
    Journal Club
  • Dias et al. have shown that intentional further activation of oncogenic signalling rather than its inhibition represents an alternative strategy leading to colorectal cancer cell death with tumour suppressive acquired resistance.

    • Anna Dart
    Research Highlight
  • In this Tools of the Trade article, Zuzana Tatarova describes the development of MIMA, an integrated analytical platform providing the quantitative information on tumour microenvironment drug responses required for effective treatment design.

    • Zuzana Tatarova
    Tools of the Trade
  • In this Tools of the Trade article, Daniel Kirschenbaum describes the development of Zman-seq and its utility for capturing dynamic changes in cellular state within single-cell RNA sequencing data.

    • Daniel Kirschenbaum
    Tools of the Trade
  • Generalist medical artificial intelligence (GMAI) models are gaining momentum in their applications for cancer treatment. In this Comment, Gilbert and Kather advocate for novel regulation of GMAI approaches to ensure patient safety and adequate physician support.

    • Stephen Gilbert
    • Jakob Nikolas Kather
    Comment
  • In a recent study published in Nature, Goto et al. explore mechanisms of immune evasion in early colorectal cancers and adenomas and identify SOX17 to be crucial for immune escape through suppression of interferon-γ signalling.

    • Daniela Senft
    Research Highlight
  • In this recent study, He et al. establish that chronic stress promotes metastasis through stress-induced formation of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs).

    • Gabrielle Brewer
    Research Highlight
  • Sánchez-Guixé et al. investigated the possible routes to second malignancies in survivors of paediatric cancer by studying four such clinical cases.

    • Anna Dart
    Research Highlight
  • In this Tools of the Trade article, Kaile Wang describes the development and use of Arc-well, a high-throughput single-cell DNA sequencing method tailored to analyse archival formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) materials.

    • Kaile Wang
    Tools of the Trade
  • Metastatic cancer represents the main cause of death in patients with cancer, but metastasis research is hindered by the limited availability of metastatic samples. In this Comment, Desmedt and Carey highlight the opportunities and challenges of post-mortem tissue donation programmes, which represent a complementary and attractive solution to overcome many of the hurdles in metastasis research.

    • Christine Desmedt
    • Lisa A Carey
    Comment
  • In this World View, H. Michael Shepard describes his personal story behind the discovery of trastuzumab, 25 years since its FDA approval for HER2-overexpressing breast cancers.

    • H. Michael Shepard
    World View
  • Fu et al. provide data indicating a pathogenic role for Streptococcus anginosus in gastric cancer.

    • Anna Dart
    Research Highlight
  • Recently published in Nature, Fan et al. demonstrate that accumulation of advanced glycation end-products in the extracellular matrix of the liver increases viscoelasticity to promote hepatocellular carcinoma growth, independent of stiffness.

    • Gabrielle Brewer
    Research Highlight
  • Two independent studies published in Nature implicate distal cholesterol biosynthesis in the regulation of ferroptosis and show that 7-dehydrocholesterol (7-DHC) is an endogenous, anti-ferroptotic metabolite.

    • Daniela Senft
    Research Highlight
  • In this Tools of the Trade, Juliann Shih describes the development of BISCUT, which detects genomic loci that are subject to fitness advantages or disadvantages by interrogating the length distributions of partial somatic copy-number alterations to enable the discovery of new drivers of aneuploidy in cancer.

    • Juliann Shih
    Tools of the Trade
  • Mutant gain-of-function p53 is commonly found in human cancers. Huang, Cao, Qian et al. developed and validated the use of multifunctional biomimetic nanoreceptors that bind to and promote the degradation of mutant p53 as a cancer therapy.

    • Gabrielle Brewer
    Research Highlight
  • In this Tools of the Trade article, Vakul Mohanty describes the development and use of METAFlux, a computational framework that infers metabolic flux from bulk and single-cell RNA-sequencing data.

    • Vakul Mohanty
    Tools of the Trade
  • Goddard et al. report that disseminated tumour cells evade T cell immunity due to their relative scarcity, which decreases the likelihood of T cell–tumour cell interactions.

    • Daniela Senft
    Research Highlight