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  • Maas et al. identify an inflammatory, immunosuppressive phenotype in neutrophils that accumulates in brain malignancies, and show that this tumour-promoting neutrophil activation is driven by the brain tumour microenvironment.

    • Daniela Senft
    Research Highlight
  • Wang et al. show that antibiotic targeting of anaerobic intratumoral bacteria exposes a unique repertoire of microbial neoantigens that can successfully trigger cellular immunity against colorectal cancer in mice.

    • Linda Gummlich
    Research Highlight
  • In this Tools of the Trade article, Hongcheng Mai describes the development of wildDISCO, an approach for whole-body immunolabelling, optical clearing and imaging in mice.

    • Hongcheng Mai
    Tools of the Trade
  •  People from minority racial and ethnic groups continue to experience disproportionate cancer incidences and cancer-associated mortality rates. In this Comment, Byrd and Wolf explore the contribution of non-medical factors to the composition of the gut microbiome, and how this may be an actionable target for reducing these disparities.

    • Doratha Byrd
    • Patricia Wolf
    Comment
  • Pregnancy-associated breast cancers are typically diagnosed at more advanced stages than other breast cancers. Recently, Saura et al. developed a non-invasive screening method using breast milk to diagnose patients prior to tumour detection by imaging.

    • Gabrielle Brewer
    Research Highlight
  • In this Tool of the Trade article, Nicolas Mathey-Andrews describes the generation and use of a prime editor mouse that enables in vivo modelling of the multitude of cancer alleles found in human tumours.

    • Nicolas Mathey-Andrews
    Tools of the Trade
  • In a recent study, Sanchez-Aguilera, Masmudi-Martín et al. find that a molecular program explains the cognitive impairment often seen in patients with brain metastasis, challenging the prevailing paradigm of the tumour mass being the sole cause of altered brain function.

    • Daniela Senft
    Research Highlight
  • In this Journal Club, Kinker & Medina discuss a study showing the role of tumour-associated tertiary lymphoid structures in improving immunotherapy response and overall survival in patients with melanoma.

    • Gabriela Sarti Kinker
    • Tiago da Silva Medina
    Journal Club
  • Karttunen et al. identify the contribution of transposable elements to gene regulatory function in colorectal and liver cancer cell lines.

    • Gabrielle Brewer
    Research Highlight
  • In a recent study, Tagore et al. find that the formation of synapse-like structures that serve to transfer GABA between premalignant melanocytes and keratinocytes promotes melanoma initiation by the BRAFV600E oncogene.

    • Daniela Senft
    Research Highlight
  • In this Tools of the Trade article, Dezhong Ji describes the development and use of a chimeric antigenic peptide influenza virus (CAP-Flu) system as a cancer vaccine strategy to promote tumour-infiltrating T cell activation in lung metastasis.

    • Dezhong Ji
    Tools of the Trade
  • In this Tools of the Trade article, Chiara Cattaneo describes the development of HANSolo, a high-throughput genetic platform for the personalized identification of CD4+ and CD8+ T cell-recognized (neo)antigens, that can be used to generate patient-specific TCR gene therapies or cancer vaccines.

    • Chiara Maria Cattaneo
    Tools of the Trade
  • In this Tools of the Trade article, Emmanuel Olivier describes an approach to reprogramming AML cancer cells into induced pluripotent stem cells, which provide faithful genetic models of the most common genetic subgroups of AML.

    • Emmanuel Olivier
    Tools of the Trade
  • Although sometimes overlooked, storytelling is a powerful tool for communicating scientific research. In this World View, Julia Bauman outlines what is needed to convey a strong scientific narrative, gleaned from her experience making 60-second TikTok videos summarizing published research papers.

    • Julia R. Bauman
    World View
  • Rahme et al. establish an in vivo model for low-grade glioma, and use it to demonstrate that Pdgfra insulator loss and Cdkn2a promoter silencing are epigenetic drivers of gliomagenesis.

    • Gabrielle Brewer
    Research Highlight
  • In this study, Guirguis et al. show mechanistically how preventing m6A RNA modification through inhibition of METTL3 can promote anti-tumour immunity.

    • Gabrielle Brewer
    Research Highlight
  • Bland et al. show that cancer types with heterozygous somatic hotspot mutations in the spliceosome component SF3B1 are vulnerable to PARP inhibition, which causes a defective response to replication stress.

    • Anna Dart
    Research Highlight
  • Two independent studies published together in Nature find that AT1 cells can have a role in both the initiation and suppression of lung adenocarcinoma.

    • Daniela Senft
    Research Highlight
  • In this Tools of the Trade article, Yuan Ma describes the development and use of ARPLA, a spatial imaging tool that can be used to visualize glycoRNAs in single cells, including cancer cells in situ.

    • Yuan Ma
    Tools of the Trade