Cancer research in China: a Special Focus by Cell Research
Dangsheng Li PhD

Back to the future of oridonin: again, compound from medicinal herb shows potent antileukemia efficacies in vitro and in vivo
Guang-Biao Zhou, Sai-Juan Chen, Zhen-Yi Wang and Zhu Chen

Hormones and cancer
Yongfeng Shang

Adiponectin as a negative regulator in obesity-related mammary carcinogenesis
Yu Wang, Karen SL Lam and Aimin Xu

Ewings family oncoproteins: drunk, disorderly and in search of partners
Kevin A. W. Lee

EMT or apoptosis: a decision for TGF-β
Jianguo Song

PTEN, a general negative regulator of cyclin D expression
Lirong Diao and Ye-Guang Chen

A novel function of p53 in TR3-MDM2 cross-talk
Hang-Zi Chen and Qiao Wu

Shp2, a novel oncogenic tyrosine phosphatase and potential therapeutic target for human leukemia
Rongzhen Xu

CTTN (EMS1): an oncogene contributing to the metastasis of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Man-Li Luo and Ming-Rong Wang

Axin bridges Daxx to p53
Sheng-Cai Lin and Qinxi Li

Antibody gene therapy: an attractive approach for the treatment of cancers and other chronic diseases
Dexian Zheng

Xom as a novel partner of Lef/Tcfs during dorsal-ventral patterning of the Xenopus embryo
Yingzi Yang

Side effects of Tamiflu: clues from an Asian single nucleotide polymorphism
Manyuan Long

Use of arrays to investigate the contribution of ATP-binding cassette transporters to drug resistance in cancer chemotherapy and prediction of chemosensitivity
Jian-Ting Zhang

Roles of CREB-binding protein (CBP)/p300 in respiratory epithelium tumorigenesis
Michalis V Karamouzis, Panagiotis A Konstantinopoulos and Athanasios G Papavassiliou

In vitro derivation of functional insulin-producing cells from human embryonic stem cells
Wei Jiang, Yan Shi, Dongxin Zhao, Song Chen, Jun Yong, Jing Zhang, Tingting Qing, Xiaoning Sun, Peng Zhang, Mingxiao Ding, Dongsheng Li and Hongkui Deng

Xom interacts with and stimulates transcriptional activity of LEF1/TCFs: implications for ventral cell fate determination during vertebrate embryogenesis
Hong Gao, Bin Wu, Roger Giese and Zhenglun Zhu

A nonsynonymous SNP in human cytosolic sialidase in a small Asian population results in reduced enzyme activity: potential link with severe adverse reactions to oseltamivir
Chuan-Yun Li, Quan Yu, Zhi-Qiang Ye, Ying Sun, Quanyuan He, Xiao-Mo Li, Wuxue Zhang, Jingchu Luo, Xiaocheng Gu, Xiaofeng Zheng and Liping Wei

PGC-1α induces apoptosis in human epithelial ovarian cancer cells through a PPARγ-dependent pathway
Yan Zhang, Yi Ba, Chang Liu, Guoxun Sun, Li Ding, Songyuan Gao, Jihui Hao, Zhentao Yu, Junfeng Zhang, Ke Zen, Zhongsheng Tong, Yang Xiang and Chen-Yu Zhang

C/EBPαp30 plays transcriptional regulatory roles distinct from C/EBPαp42
Chunxi Wang, Xiaotao Chen, Yanping Wang, Jialei Gong and Gengxi Hu