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It has been estimated that worldwide up to 10% of all human cancers are the result of viral infection, with 7.2% of all cancers in the developed world have a viral aetiology. In contrast, 22.9% of infections in the developing world are the result of viral infections. This number increases to 30% in Sub-Saharan Africa. The ability of viral infections to induce the transformation of normal cells into cancerous cells is well documented. These viruses are mainly Hepatitis B and C viruses, Epstein Barr virus, Human papillomavirus and Human Cytomegalovirus. They can induce the transformation of normal cells into cancer cells and this may be the underlying cause of carcinogenesis in many different types of cancer. These include liver cancer, lymphoma, nasopharyngeal cancer, cervical cancer, gastric cancer and even glioblastoma. Long non-coding RNAs (LncRNAs) can function by regulating the expression of their target genes by controlling the stability of the target mRNAs or by blocking translation of the target mRNA. for the stage specific diagnosis of tumours. These lncRNAs can also serve as targets for the development of new anticancer drug treatments.Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) represents one of the most common cancers with dismal prognosis. Definitive diagnosis of PDAC remains challenging due to the lack of specific biomarkers. A transcription factor essential for pancreatic development named HNF-1B can be a potential biomarker for PDAC. Daratumumab However, HNF-1B was not entirely specific for PDAC and can be expressed in cancers of Müllerian tract, kidney, lung, bladder and prostate. To solve this issue, we investigated the expression of a panel of well-established lineage-specific biomarkers for non-pancreatic origins, including TTF1 and Napsin A for lung, RCC for kidney, ER and PR for breast, NKX3.1 for prostate, PAX8 for Müllerian tract, GATA3 for breast and bladder, and keratin CK7 and CK20 in 149 PDACs, using immunohistochemistry and tissue microarray. A two-tier scoring system for HNF-1B expression in tumor cells was used. Chi-square and Fisher's exact tests were performed using SAS software version 9.4 to test the association between HNF-1B expression and tumor morphology and differentiation. The results showed that PAX8 was focally positive in 6 cases (4.0%). GATA3 was focally positive in 5 cases (3.4%). Napsin A was all negative except for 1 case with focal weak staining. All other lineage-specific markers such as TTF1, RCC, ER, PR and NKX3.1 were completely negative in all PDACs. Consistent with our previous result, the majority of PDACs (88.6%) was positive for HNF-1B, including 78 cases (59.1%) with "strong" and 54 cases (40.9%) with "weak" staining pattern. There was no significant association between HNF-1B expression and cytoplasmic clearing morphology. Addition of keratins may further aid the diagnosis of PDAC since the majority of PDACs (84.6%) was CK7+/CK20-, only a minority of PDACs (11.4%) was CK7+/CK20+, 2.7% were CK-/CK20-, and 1.3% were CK7-/CK20+. In conclusion, HNF-1B can serve as a useful biomarker to aid the diagnosis of PDAC when combined with other lineage-specific biomarkers to exclude the other origins.Hepatoblastoma is a rare childhood liver cancer without known explicit etiology. Base excision repair (BER) pathway genes have been implicated in the pathophysiology of cancer, yet the role of BER pathway gene single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on hepatoblastoma risk still awaits to be explored. This study aims to determine whether hepatoblastoma risk be modulated by polymorphisms in the BER pathway genes based on genotyped data from 313 cases and 1446 controls. We applied TaqMan assay to genotype these included samples. We comprehensively genotyped 20 SNPs across six genes of BER, and estimated odds ratio (ORs), 95% confidence intervals (CIs), and P-values of the selected SNPs' contribution to the risk of hepatoblastoma using logistic regression models. Only SNP rs293795 in the hOGG1 gene could significantly enhance hepatoblastoma risk under recessive model (adjusted OR=3.78, 95% CI=1.01-14.17, P=0.047). Stratified analysis revealed that rs159153 TC/CC genotype decreased hepatoblastoma risk in male subgroup. Moreover, rs293795 GG and 1-3 risk genotypes could increase hepatoblastoma risk in clinical stages I+II and male subgroups, respectively. False-positive report probability validated the reliability of the significant results. Our findings provide some clues of a potential risk effect of BER pathway gene hOGG1 SNPs on hepatoblastoma. Further investigation is warranted to confirm these findings and to better elucidate the biological pathways involved.Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) remains one of the most lethal common cancer because of late diagnosis. Novel biomarkers for PDAC early detection are urgently needed. tRNA-derived small RNAs (tsRNAs) are novel small RNAs might serve as biomarkers for cancer diagnosis and participate in diverse physiological and pathological process. We investigated whether the expression of tsRNAs in serum could be a noninvasive method in the early detection of PDAC. Blood sample of PDAC patients and healthy controls were collected from Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai, China. Tumor and adjacent normal pancreas tissues were collected from 51 patients with PDAC undergoing therapeutic surgery. The testing cohort comprised 6 PDAC patients and 6 healthy controls and the expression of small RNAs in serum was analyzed by small RNA sequence. We verified the diagnostic performance of serum tsRNAs by qPCR in validation cohort including 110 PDAC patients and 100 healthy controls. Expression level of tsRNAs in tissue was also verified in serum and tissue. We provide tsRNAs profiles observed by small RNA sequencing. The diagnostic accuracy of tsRNA-ValTAC-41 and tsRNA-MetCAT-37 in serum of PDAC patients were verified. Further studies for tsRNA-ValTAC-41 are needed to confirm the findings. These tsRNAs may be promising and effective candidates in the development of highly sensitive, noninvasive biomarkers for PDAC diagnosis.Transmembrane serine protease (TMPRSS2) plays an oncogenic role in prostate cancer as the fusion gene with ERG, and has also been demonstrated to be essential for the cellular entry of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronaviruses (SARS-CoV). Thus, targeting TMPRSS2 is a promising strategy for therapies against both prostate cancer and coronavirus infection. Although Nafamostat and Camostat have been identified as TMPRSS2 inhibitors, severe side effects such as cerebral hemorrhage, anaphylactoid reaction, and cardiac arrest shock greatly hamper their clinical use. Therefore, more potent and safer drugs against this serine protease should be further developed. In this study, we developed a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based platform for effectively screening of inhibitors against TMPRSS2 protease activity. The disruption of FRET between green and red fluorescent proteins conjugated with the substrate peptide, which corresponds to the cleavage site of SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein, was measured to determine the enzymatic activity of TMPRSS2.