Targeting and engineering long non-coding RNAs for cancer therapy

M Coan, S Haefliger, S Ounzain, R Johnson - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
RNA therapeutics (RNATx) aim to treat diseases, including cancer, by targeting or
employing RNA molecules for therapeutic purposes. Amongst the most promising targets …

Genomic alterations in thyroid cancer: biological and clinical insights

I Landa, ME Cabanillas - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2024 - nature.com
Tumours can arise from thyroid follicular cells if they acquire driver mutations that
constitutively activate the MAPK signalling pathway. In addition, a limited set of additional …

Deep whole-genome analysis of 494 hepatocellular carcinomas

L Chen, C Zhang, R Xue, M Liu, J Bai, J Bao, Y Wang… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Over half of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cases diagnosed worldwide are in China,–.
However, whole-genome analysis of hepatitis B virus (HBV)-associated HCC in Chinese …

CMC: Cancer miRNA Census–a list of cancer-related miRNA genes

M Suszynska, M Machowska, E Fraszczyk… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
A growing body of evidence indicates an important role of miRNAs in cancer; however, there
is no definitive, convenient-to-use list of cancer-related miRNAs or miRNA genes that may …

PIK3CA mutations in endocrine-resistant breast cancer

C Schagerholm, S Robertson, H Toosi, EG Sifakis… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Around 75% of breast cancer (BC) patients have tumors expressing the predictive biomarker
estrogen receptor α (ER) and are offered endocrine therapy. One-third eventually develop …

Genome-wide repeat landscapes in cancer and cell-free DNA

AV Annapragada, N Niknafs, JR White… - Science translational …, 2024 - science.org
Genetic changes in repetitive sequences are a hallmark of cancer and other diseases, but
characterizing these has been challenging using standard sequencing approaches. We …

Optimizing sequence design strategies for perturbation MPRAs: a computational evaluation framework

J Liu, T Ashuach, F Inoue, N Ahituv… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The advent of perturbation-based massively parallel reporter assays (MPRAs) technique
has facilitated the delineation of the roles of non-coding regulatory elements in orchestrating …

Determinants of gastric cancer immune escape identified from non-coding immune-landscape quantitative trait loci

C Miliotis, Y Ma, XL Katopodi, D Karagkouni… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The landscape of non-coding mutations in cancer progression and immune evasion is
largely unexplored. Here, we identify transcrptome-wide somatic and germline 3 …

Developmental origins shape the paediatric cancer genome

X Chen, W Yang, CWM Roberts, J Zhang - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
In the past two decades, technological advances have brought unprecedented insights into
the paediatric cancer genome revealing characteristics distinct from those of adult cancer …

Tetrahedral DNA nanostructures enhance transcription isothermal amplification for multiplex detection of non-coding RNAs

ES Lee, J Woo, J Shin, BS Cha, S Kim… - Biosensors and …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study introduces an innovative detection system for multiple cancer biomarkers,
employing transcription isothermal amplification methods in conjunction with a tetrahedral …