The biological and clinical significance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

K Tao, PL Tzou, J Nouhin, RK Gupta… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The past several months have witnessed the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with novel
spike protein mutations that are influencing the epidemiological and clinical aspects of the …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19: The first documented coronavirus pandemic in history

YC Liu, RL Kuo, SR Shih - Biomedical journal, 2020 - Elsevier
The novel human coronavirus disease COVID-19 has become the fifth documented
pandemic since the 1918 flu pandemic. COVID-19 was first reported in Wuhan, China, and …

Radiation therapy enhances immunotherapy response in microsatellite stable colorectal and pancreatic adenocarcinoma in a phase II trial

AR Parikh, A Szabolcs, JN Allen, JW Clark, JY Wo… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Overcoming intrinsic resistance to immune checkpoint blockade for microsatellite stable
(MSS) colorectal cancer (CRC) and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains …

Ongoing global and regional adaptive evolution of SARS-CoV-2

ND Rochman, YI Wolf, G Faure… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding the trends in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) evolution is paramount to control the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyzed more than …

Microsatellite instability: a review of what the oncologist should know

K Li, H Luo, L Huang, H Luo, X Zhu - Cancer cell international, 2020 - Springer
The patients with high microsatellite instability (MSI-H)/mismatch repair deficient (dMMR)
tumors recently have been reported that can benefit from immunotherapy, and MSI can be …

A neoantigen fitness model predicts tumour response to checkpoint blockade immunotherapy

M Łuksza, N Riaz, V Makarov, VP Balachandran… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Checkpoint blockade immunotherapies enable the host immune system to recognize and
destroy tumour cells. Their clinical activity has been correlated with activated T-cell …

Re-emergence of dendritic cell vaccines for cancer treatment

M Saxena, N Bhardwaj - Trends in cancer, 2018 - cell.com
Dendritic cells (DCs) are essential in immunity owing to their role in activating T cells,
thereby promoting antitumor responses. Tumor cells, however, hijack the immune system …

Positive selection of ORF1ab, ORF3a, and ORF8 genes drives the early evolutionary trends of SARS-CoV-2 during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic

L Velazquez-Salinas, S Zarate, S Eberl… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In this study, we analyzed full-length SARS-CoV-2 genomes from multiple countries to
determine early trends in the evolutionary dynamics of the novel COVID-19 pandemic …

The many faces of p53: something for everyone

AJ Levine - Journal of molecular cell biology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Forty years ago four research laboratories in London, Paris, New York/Bethesda, and
Princeton uncovered the existence of the p53 protein (Deleo et al., 1979; Lane and …

GESS: a database of global evaluation of SARS-CoV-2/hCoV-19 sequences

S Fang, K Li, J Shen, S Liu, J Liu, L Yang… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The COVID-19 outbreak has become a global emergency since December 2019. Analysis of
SARS-CoV-2 sequences can uncover single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and corresponding …