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Senior Editor @Nature for cancer and cell cycle. Views my own
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Activated ATF6α is a hepatic tumour driver restricting immunosurveillance - Nature
ATF6α activation in human and preclinical models of hepatocellular carcinoma is significantly associated with an aggressive tumour phenotype characterized by reduced survival, glycolytic reprogramming...
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February 5, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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ZFTA–RELA ependymomas make itaconate to epigenetically drive fusion expression - Nature
The ZFTA–RELA fusion, an oncogene for ependymomas, promotes the production of itaconate, and its dependence on this metabolite represents a new therapeutic target for this cancer.
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February 5, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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How tumours trick the brain into shutting down cancer-fighting cells
Lung cancer in mice hijacks neurons to send a signal that subdues the immune system, study finds.
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February 5, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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A tumour-to-brain pathway hinders anticancer defences
Sensory neurons detect internal and external cues in organs and send this information to the brain. Lung cancer exploits this pathway to lessen immune responses.
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February 5, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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new out in Nature, very nice cancer neuroscience story
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Tumour–brain crosstalk restrains cancer immunity via a sensory–sympathetic axis - Nature
Mouse models demonstrate that vagal sensory neurons transmit signals from lung adenocarcinoma to the brain, increasing sympathetic efferent activity in the tumour microenvironment and thereb...
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February 5, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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Critical role for a high-plasticity cell state in lung cancer - Nature
The high-plasticity cell state (HPCS) is a critical hub that enables reciprocal transitions between cancer cell states, and targeting the HPCS may suppress cancer progression and eradicate treatment r...
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January 22, 2026 at 7:21 AM
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Temporal tissue dynamics from a spatial snapshot - Nature
One-shot tissue dynamics reconstruction can infer changes in tissue composition over time, from single-time-point spatial proteomics of human cancers.
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January 22, 2026 at 7:20 AM
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January 15, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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January 7, 2026 at 5:31 PM
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Nutrient requirements of organ-specific metastasis in breast cancer - Nature
How the complex interplay between multiple nutrients within the microenvironment dictates potential sites of metastatic cancer growth is explored.
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January 7, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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How fasting boosts breast cancer therapy
A discovery in mice reveals why fasting enhances a type of breast cancer treatment — a hormone-signalling pathway and gene-expression changes have key roles.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Agonists for cytosolic bacterial receptor ALPK1 induce antitumour immunity - Nature
The ALPK1 agonist UDSP-Hep stimulates tumour-cell antigen presentation, macrophage–DC cross-priming and differentiation of protective memory T cells.
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December 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Somatic evolution following cancer treatment in normal tissue - Nature
High-depth sequencing of non-cancerous tissue from patients with metastatic cancer reveals single-base mutational signatures of alcohol, smoking and cancer treatments, and reveals how exogenous factor...
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December 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Uncovering the role of LINE-1 in the evolution of lung adenocarcinoma - Nature
Lung adenocarcinomas bearing the ID2 mutational signature display increased LINE-1 retrotransposon activity, which contributes to their fast evolutionary dynamics and aggressive phenotype.
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December 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Fasting boosts breast cancer therapy efficacy via glucocorticoid activation - Nature
Beneficial effects of fasting combined with endocrine therapy for oestrogen receptor-α-expressing breast cancers can be recapitulated using exogenous glucocorticoid receptor ligands instead of fasting...
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December 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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December 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Order in which cancer-driving mutations occur affects the chance of tumour development
Randomly acquired mutations face strong negative selection, except on certain cancer-promoting backgrounds.
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December 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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December 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Polyclonal origins of human premalignant colorectal lesions - Nature
Nature - Polyclonal origins of human premalignant colorectal lesions
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November 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Inhibitory PD-1 axis maintains high-avidity stem-like CD8+ T cells - Nature
PD-1 blockade interferes with the selective expansion and maintenance of high-affinity TCR stem-like clones that have a critical role in effective checkpoint blockade therapy.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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NSD2 targeting reverses plasticity and drug resistance in prostate cancer - Nature
Inhibition of the histone methyltransferase NSD2 and the androgen receptor in preclinical models can reverse lineage plasticity to suppress tumour growth and promote cell death in multiple subtypes of...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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New issue of Nature - with NINE studies on #brain #development from the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) 🧠🧪🔬

An amazing set of resources for all scientists working on the brain!

🧠 Immersive feature:
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🧠 Perspective:
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Cover of this week's Nature showing a brain rendering Cover caption from the journal: Brain development: Our ability to process information into complex emotions, behaviours and decisions relies on the rich diversity of cell types that make up the human brain. Uncovering the molecular and cellular events that take place during brain development could reveal not only the mechanisms that give rise to this diversity but also shed light on how this process might go awry in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and schizophrenia. In this week’s issue, the BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN) builds on its previous work creating atlases of cell types in the adult mouse, non-human primate (NHP) and human brains to present cell-type atlases of the developing human, mouse and NHP brains. Across a suite of papers, nine of which are published in Nature, the researchers uncover the complex programs through which cell types emerge during brain development in humans and animals, revealing both the shared and unique features of the human brain. The latest work, along with future research directions, is summed up in a Perspective article by Tomasz Nowakowski and colleagues
November 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Really happy to share a link to our work showing that anti-progestin therapy could help prevent breast cancer before menopause.
Published today in Nature, the study suggests this could be a new way to stop breast cancer before it starts: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Brilliant team science
Anti-progestin therapy targets hallmarks of breast cancer risk
Nature - Results of an early-phase breast cancer prevention trial demonstrate the potential for breast cancer prevention in premenopausal women with anti-progestin therapy by inducing...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Draft atlases of the developing brain of humans and other mammals are presented in a collection of papers from BICAN published in Nature. These resources combine single-cell and spatial technologies to track how brain cell types emerge, diversify, and organize during development. 🧪
BICAN: A cell census of the developing human brain
Building on their landmark efforts to create cell-type atlases of adult brains using single-cell and spatial genomics technologies, researchers in the BRAIN ...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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new out in Nature: BICAN: A cell census of the developing human brain
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BICAN: A cell census of the developing human brain
Building on their landmark efforts to create cell-type atlases of adult brains using single-cell and spatial genomics technologies, researchers in the BRAIN ...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:43 AM