Roles of Non-Coding RNAs in Cancer
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editor
Interests: pharmacogenomics; translational research; single-cell genomics/transcriptomics/proteomics; next-generation (DNA/exome/whole-genome/RNA) sequencing; SNP arrays and microarrays; functional genomics/ cell and molecular biology; bioinformatics and computational biology; population genetics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), including small non-coding RNAs like microRNAs (miRNAs) and piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) and long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs), play crucial roles in cancer development, cancer progression, and drug resistance. NcRNAs are known to act as both oncogenes and tumor suppressors and are therefore being explored as promising candidates for cancer biomarkers and therapeutic targets.
In this Special Issue on 'Roles of Non-Coding RNAs in Cancer', we invite submissions that explore the roles of ncRNAs in cancer biology, including tumorigenesis, metastasis, drug resistance, and the development of targeted anti-cancer therapies.
Dr. Amit K. Mitra
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- lncRNA
- miRNA
- cancer
- genomics
- targeted therapy
- biomarkers
- drug resistance
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