Publication news from our partners at the University of Torino: an article entitled ‘Effective drug combinations in breast, colon and pancreatic cancer cells‘ was published in Nature in collaboration with Mathew Garnett, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK. In it, the authors, Patricia Jaaks, Elizabeth A. Coker, Daniel J. Vis, Olivia Edwards, Emma F. Carpenter, Simonetta M. Leto, Lisa Dwane, Francesco Sassi, Howard Lightfoot, Syd Barthorpe, Dieudonne van der Meer, Wanjuan Yang, Alexandra Beck, Tatiana Mironenko, Caitlin Hall, James Hall, Iman Mali, Laura Richardson, Charlotte Tolley, James Morris, Frances Thomas, Ermira Lleshi, Nanne Aben, Cyril H. Benes, Andrea Bertotti, Livio Trusolino, Lodewyk Wessels and Mathew J. Garnett report that KRAS-TP53 double mutant CRC cell lines are particularly vulnerable to DNA damage-inducing agents.

The paper was published on February 23, 2022. Congratulations to all authors!

Citation: Jaaks, P., Coker, E.A., Vis, D.J. et al. Effective drug combinations in breast, colon and pancreatic cancer cells. Nature 603, 166–173 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04437-2