Liu et al. show that glycogen accumulates in pre-malignant liver cells by undergoing liquid–liquid phase separation and, by sequestering Hippo kinases MST1 and MST2, promotes YAP-driven tumorigenesis.

Guo et al. have developed a novel strategy, which involves coating tumour cells with silica, to enable personalized cancer vaccines to overcome the immunosuppressive effects of the tumour microenvironment.

Kaushik Tiwari et al. have developed a strategy to directly target amplified genes in cancer using triplex-forming oligonucleotides, which selectively induce DNA damage and apoptosis in cancer cells with copy number gains.

Klemm et al. examined the role of tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs) at different stages of brain metastasis in mouse models and found that targeting TAMs by inhibiting both CSF1R and STAT5 might have long-lasting efficacy and prevent resistance.