Researchers from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have proposed that having individuals bank samples of people’s own gut microbiota when they are young and healthy for potential use later in life in an autologous faecal microbiota transplant (FMT). The findings were reported in the paper, ‘Rejuvenating the human gut microbiome', published in Trends in Molecular Medicine.

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Health describe a new mathematical model to help predict anal cancer risk in persons with HIV infection and aid clinicians and patients in making screening decisions.

A team of clinician-scientists and scientists, led by the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) and A*STAR's Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) together with collaborators in Europe and South Korea, who used single cell techniques to uncover a central dichotomy for colorectal cancer cells, have proposed an update of the classification system for the disease.

Researchers led by Dr Eduard Batlle, ICREA researcher and head of the Colorectal Cancer Laboratory at IRB Barcelona, have found that some tumour cells remain in a latent state and, after chemotherapy, they are reactivated, thus causing relapse. Their findings were featured in the paper, ‘Mex3a marks drug-tolerant persister colorectal cancer cells that mediate relapse after chemotherapy’, published in Nature Cancer.